Symbols

The London Olympics, having tried a logo that looks like goatse and one that looks like the Simpson kids going at it, now thinks that a Cyclops modernized into a living surveillance camera makes a great cuddly plush toy. Charlie Stross cruelly mocks them.

Rediscovery

Fredric Brown is the winner of the 2012 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors. He is the writer who lured me into sf. I reviewed him for NYRSF.