Daily Archives: February 27, 2012
Genuinely the Stupidest Thing I Have Seen on the Internet in a Very Long Time
Posted on February 27, 2012 96 Comments
Australian bargain site Cudo, apparently co-run by Microsoft and Channel Nine, offers for an e-reader for sale, complete with a CD of 4,000 written works, the purported titles of which are here. If that title listing is correct on that CD, then tons of those books are under copyright, including what looks like hundreds of […]
My Day
Posted on February 27, 2012 46 Comments
Has been spent doing publicity for the Italian release of Old Man’s War, which has meant three e-mail interviews. Question present in each interview: “Hey, isn’t Scalzi an Italian last name? Are you Italian?” Why yes. Yes, I am. Well, Italian-American. Actually, more accurately Italian-English-Irish-French-Dutch-NERD-American. But still. How’s your Monday?
Outgoing SFWA VP Mary Robinette Kowal Endorses Rachel Swirsky For VP
Posted on February 27, 2012 1 Comment
You may read her reasoning here. I am running unopposed for President (again) (again), but the Vice Presidential race has two candidates, Rachel Swirsky and Lou Antonelli, both of whose candidacy statements SFWA members may see here. As president, I have no doubt that I will happily work with whomever the SFWA members, in their […]
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