A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

I am listening to an audio version of James Patrick Kelly's Burn. It's a really nice story so far, and I'll go ahead and make a premature recommend if you wish to risk it turning emabrrassingly horrible halfway through. I don't think it will, though; I've also enjoyed the other Kelly I've read, and trust him.

Cory Doctorow has been having loud sex in public with this novella since it's not just entirely free to download - in both text and audio formats - under a Creative Commons license, but it just this month won a Nebula award, the first CC story to do so.

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Thinking about the title of this story - which begins on a sort of Amish-analog community living on planet "Walden" in the distant future - reminds me of all the ads for BUUURNNN CYCLE, an adventure game from like a dozen years ago for the Sega Saturn. Remember those? With the hippie guy on the bus? Crazy. I don't think I've ever met anyone who ever played that game. (Or who owned a Sega Saturn.)

I am completely obsessed with Witching Hour, the latest album by Ladytron. I like the whole thing an awful lot. I've absorbed it enough that I can listen to it loud while coding, and indeed am wearing my headphones now so I can listen to it this way without disgruntling the Zarf.

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I'm not feeling terribly social right now but I may go to a thing that Harmonix is hosting tonight anyway since it's just a short Red Line ride away. One of the Gameshelf's crew will be there and maybe he can introduce me to new people. This is good, even though I'm too deep in hack-mode to feel particularly needful of more networking at this moment.

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Have discovered the world of Creative Commons-licensed music, which I'd like to start exploiting for my podcasts. Yahoo's CC search is a very nice resource.