Deanna Hoak

I think I would go insane organizing my books this way, but I do think it’s beautiful.
Found courtesy a link list provided by the Flea King.

So my third-grader needed to make a model or diorama of the solar system for class. After searching out examples online, I somewhat jokingly suggested putting one on a cake, and she of course loved the notion. I insisted it was probably not a good idea–that the school might not allow it–and that we’d think [...]

Here’s a cool SFnal story (although it’s on Fox :-P): Scientists have predicted when the Earth will end.

The article includes the proposal that we can save ourselves by taming an asteroid to swing by the Earth every few thousand years, pushing us into a higher solar orbit. Nifty notion. :)

I read with massive shock and sadness on Making Light today that Robert Legault has passed away of a massive coronary. I loved talking copyediting with Robert, and some of the best, most interesting, and most useful comments on any of my copyediting posts always came from him. We’d talked on the phone on several [...]