- The first issue of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show is live. There seems to be one story by a woman and a Note to Parents promising that the content will always be PG-13. Beautifully designed though and JJA has a column.
- The future of newspapers may not be newsprint. Bill Breen is a delivery foreman for the New York Times and, at 59, wrote in an e-mail, "I know what the dinosaurs must have felt like, when it started to get cold."
- Best short and acerbic obit ever. (Via Mr. McLaren.)
- The writer’s uniform in Los Angeles, or Why Josh Friedman Can Wear Sweat Pants to Meetings. Hilarious throughout, but this made me snort: I heard of an executive who tried to go tracksuit casual once–his assistant shot him with a tranq gun and the guy woke up naked in a dressing room at the Zegna store with his platinum card and his Blackberry duct-taped to his torso. (Blog discovered via TEV.)
- Niall Harrison on Kevin Brockmeier’s new novel A Brief History of the Dead (due out in Feb). Want to read!
- New urban exploration book that looks fantastic and how to make a secret bookshelf door. (Both via Boing Boing.)
- Do you like your fantasy hard?