Friday, March 20, 2009

APSAnet thread

Anyone with actual information about the status of APSA's website is invited to post here. So are frustrated paper-proposers who now can't find out the status of their proposal (and who undoubtedly crashed it by hitting reload dozens of times). So are those with funnier theories about what happened.

Update: seems to be fixed now.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Gaiman on Colbert

I gave Paul Gowder a hard time for his little rant about the Geek Culture takeover of the world.

But it is a little weird to live in a world in which I can just happen to turn on the TV and see one of the most popular comedians around interviewing one of the all-time great comic book writers, and singing one of Tom Bombadil's songs. I'm not sure precisely when we came to live in that world...