Bo Lindbergh

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• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The very next xkcd is the relevant one....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  Torment Nexus adjacent: an interview with "six of today’s foremost science-fiction authors". Does Science Fiction Shape the Future?...
• Commented on Announcement time!
  I don't know what story could involve both but I'd probably watch the anime.Contact is made with a weird alien enviroment where turbojet engines work much better than turbofans because [insert vigorous handwaving]....
• Commented on Announcement time!
  That's a hoary old joke. Here are some hoary old people attributing it to Terry Carr....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Reading the talk pages of current event Wikipedia articles can enrich your vocabulary. Did you know that when a ship hits a stationary object, it's an allision rather than a collision? In these parts, Almöbron is the first thing that...
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Not valid. Domain name labels are limited to 63 characters....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Way off topic: fans of Penric & Desdemona should not miss this interview....
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  They've started making rack mounted units again....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  Hypothesis: the people who use "AI" generated text because they don't know how to write also don't know how to proofread, which is why so many embarrassing examples get published....
• Commented on A Wonky Experience
  The purpose of the stunt might have been to make generative AI look bad....
• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  For friendly rust monsters, try the title character of the webcomic Rusty and Co....
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  "Conmondiale"?...
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  Let's boil it down to one sentence: If WIP has no power over an individual Worldcon, it is unable to protect its trademarks, which could then cause those trademarks to lose any value they have. Question: what fraction of veteran...
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  I think the western governments know this and this is why you are not seeing industrial production of artillery shells ramped up.You may not be seeing that, but don't presume to speak for the rest of us....
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  See AICMFP....
• Commented on The coming storm
  On the bright side, terrorists will love The Line. I mean, a one-armed one-eyed hijacker couldn't miss it.......
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Grand-younger friends....
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  The Swedish speaking clock should be reachable from foreign parts: +46 8 90510...
• Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
  Anniversary coming up next week: 23 years of CPAN inactivity!...
• Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Maybe it would help if every cautionary tale about the Torment Nexus included a scene showing the nexus creators' deaths by lynch mob?...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  That definition is old too. Currently, 1 metre is 1/299792458 of a light-second....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  Have you seen Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection?...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  That sounds like the set-up of a bad joke. An octopus, a corvid, and a parrot enter a ropewalk......
• Commented on Do my Laundry
  Was the bit in The Fuller Memorandum when something woke up in ensign Burdokovskii's body and asked what year it was intended as a hint of mental time travel? If it was, it's another loose end to be tidied up....
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Anybody writing that story absolutely must mention the traditional greeting of the Ski'ites, "Slalom alaikum"....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Perennial Aurora Award winner It Never Rains features an unintended time traveller whose future self seems no less confused about what is going on....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Did my message about Get Medieval get through?...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  You've mentioned that you never cared for Narnia. Was there any fantastical fiction that your younger self did love and which your adult self could affectionately mock?...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  It varies. Those webcomics that are posted automatically on a regular schedule get sorted by update time of day; the rest, alphabetically....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Behind the Gifs takes animated images found on the internet and improves them with hand-drawn framing stories. Currently hiatusing, but has a hefty archive....