For Charlie -- on the one hand, it's not the U.S. On the other hand, it's just about the furthest a Worldcon can be from Edinburgh.
]]>I suspect transatlantic flights to NYC should be fully operational by Thursday, though domestic will likely take longer to recombobulate.
]]>You'd think that members of other countries' governments would take that sort of lesson more personally.
]]>Hopefully they'll be out of system APIs by that point, but they're all over file formats and protocols...
]]>See Matt Strassler's post on his blog:
]]>"Obama's Arab Spring missteps led to Benghazi".
While to be sure this would be opaque to someone in 2003, that's primarily due to the metonymy inherent in headline-ese -- none of the events referred to would be any more surprising to someone ten years in the past than they were to the real people who lived through them.
In other words, it's opaque for exactly the same reasons that "Kennedy's Bay of Pigs missteps led to Missile Crisis" would be in 1953.
]]>What were your various novels' working titles? And how do you go about deciding the real ones?
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