ICFA

Back from another delightful International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. What did I miss?

RIP, Mike Glicksohn

Mike Glicksohn was one of the great fanzine creators of the 70s. He was greatly loved and will be greatly missed. gerisullivan remembers him and points to some other remembrances.

YA

Russell Letson said in one of his Locus reviews that he was not the ideal person to review a Young Adult book, being neither. Sherwood Smith leads a discussion of such reading.

Thanx to (unsurprisingly) sartorias

Catching up

Publishing
Electronic Publishing Bingo

Thanx to Whatever.

Most Unwanted
Painting a Target on Fat Kids

Graphic
Canadians coming to the US for health care

Thanx to onyxlynx

The ev psych people are hard-wired to do this stuff
Human Gender Roles Influence Research on Animals

Thanx to andrewducker

Not heavy-handed satirical sf
Poor people with money should be outlaws

Thanx to zillah975

Catshit misspelled
Top 10 Worst Captchas

Thanx to andrewducker

Video fraud

When I saw Borat, I felt at the time, and more as I thought about it, that much of it was failed entrapment. Borat goes, "Let's hate $GROUP!" and his foils go, "Yeah!" or "Yeah, whatever." womzilla theorizes that fake fake pimp James O'Keefe wants to grow up to be Borat, but he is even worse at it. Amanda Marcotte discusses.

Thanx to Pandagon.

Another language

The AP Stylebook is dropping the hyphen from "e-mail". This does not, as might be suspected, mean that the AP has been taken over by subliterate grunters. The AP has always been forced by the necessities of putting ink on paper to strip down to something like English but simpler; it also eliminates the essential comma before "and" or "or" in a series and forms the possessive of names ending in "s" by simply putting an apostrophe after. This does not mean that the AP is too stupid to know better any more than texters and Twitterers can be presumed incapable of spelling "you." I will, however, give the AP a warning I've given before: Don't come crying to me when you see lines ending with "em-" followed by "-ail" (which is not as amusing as "hor-" "-semen").

Thanx to Lisa Gold: Research Maven

Gilbert Gottfried is not so bad

Rush Limbaugh laughs at the quake victims.

Thanx to Follow Me Here