Adam is my editor at ProgrammableWeb and the author of Map Scripting 101. He’s also very tall. Speaking of PW, I’m taking a break from my API news blogging right now to devote time to NaNoWriMo and some other projects….
Category: geeky
Mars Stowaway
My tax dollars at work: You, too, can send your name to Mars!
Postcard #40
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that the text on this card, from my erstwhile co-worker and Longshots co-captain Chris, forms the acrostic “I bat bofh.” I’m sure it doesn’t mean anything. Yeah.
Postcards #28, 29, and 30
The final three parts of JRA‘s multi-card message. (Did I call it or what? Backsolving FTW!)
Friday Flash Fiction: “Division of Labour”
Yes, I know those are rats in the picture, not gerbils. Have you ever tried to find a Creative Commons-licensed photo of two gerbils? And yes, I could have just changed them to rats in the story, but gerbils seem…
Postcards #24 and 25
Why do I feel like I’m uploading assets for an ARG? Anyway, if the pattern starting with Jeff’s first postcard holds, I’m expecting to get at least three more of these. He also sent a postscript by e-mail: “Google Go…
eBook Report: Wildside
Rescued from the backlist: Steven Gould’s 1996 novel Wildside, now available in eBook format with spiffy new cover, shown above. (Disclosure: I got the manuscript for free, as part of his crowdsource proofreading project; and I probably took longer to…
Friday Flash Fiction: “Irremediable”
Thanks to Cory Doctorow, Randall Munroe, Mark Waid, and an entire misspent youth reading comic books for inspiring this week’s story. Read “Irremediable” at 512 Words or Fewer
Postcard #12
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who are Corby, and those who aren’t. Life is better if you know one of the former. (The latter are unavoidable.)
Postcard #11
Cary was born and raised in West Virginia. Which, if you know him at all, may explain a lot.