Holy Mackrel, My First Cover Illustration

And, Dude! Will ya look at this thing.  Read FROM THE CLAY OF HIS HEART at Orson Scott Card’s Intergalatic Medicine Show. Read the story behind the story on Side-Show Freaks in the coming month. Then read more about Scott Altmann, the marvelous illustrator. Born on Long Island, New York, Scott was never far from a drawing

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Gator Blood

Crocodiles scare the crap out of me. In fact, I think they’re the scariest things on the planet. Gators make a close second. But they aren’t just monsters to humans. It appears gators have got blood that’s an infection’s worst nightmare. Gator blood kills So I predict right here that in the not too distant future we’re going to

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Move over Internet, here comes the Grid

This geeked me out today. THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue

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