Interview with Joss Whedon on How to be Prolific

Very small humans playing guitars as big as they are very well.

Hey, there’s a new collection by writing wizard Howard Waldrop coming in September from Small Beer Press!

Ted Chiang lecture on lifelogging and memory. It references it having been preceded by Chiang discussing Ben Rosenbaum’s The Guy Who Worked for Money, an interesting story about reputation economy and the panopticon that struck me as talking back to Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom and Maneki Neko among others. I’m disappointed that video of that doesn’t seem to be available online. But Rosenbaum’s collection The Ant King (and several other fine collections) are available as free downloads also from Small Beer Press.