With all the gloom and doom present in the publishing industry and otherwise (and my condolences to those who were affected by this) I just thought I’d mention that Sybil’s Garage is still alive and well.  And though we are slow selecting from our final batch of stories, we will be coming out this year.  In case you were wondering.

Mercurio D. Rivera posted his annual top ten list for movies released in 2008.  You can read it here on his blog.

I am very pleased to announce that Cat Sparks’ short story, “Sammarynda Deep,” which was published in Paper Cities, has won the Aurealis Award for the Best Fantasy Short Story of 2008. Congratulations Cat! A full list of winners is here. UPDATE: Mercurio D. Rivera was gracious enough to point out these comments from the judges’ report: “Long after reading, this is a story that returns to haunt the reader. From the very first word, ‘Sammarynda Deep’ drags you into a world both wonderfully exotic and strange, yet undeniably familiar in the …

In the continuing effors to geekify myself as much as possible, I have recently created a Blade Runner ringtone for the iPhone based on the sound of a ringing telephone heard in the film.  Yes, I geek therefore I am.  If you recall when Deckard calls over to J.F. Sebastian’s apartment, and Pris answers?  This is the sound the car phone makes.  If you listen carefully, you can hear the pattering rain (but no tears, fortunately). Here’s the file.  Place this in your iPhone’s /Library/Ringtones folder.  Worry your parents and alienate …

Here are some pictures from Wednesday’s KGB event.  Let’s thank Ellen for always having her camera handy.  This time I even snapped one of her. So, on a totally unrelated note I recently purchased a second hand Eeepc, and a few months before that, an iPhone.  For the past week or so, I have been intensely hacking the Eee.  I put Eeebuntu on it (Ubuntu Linux tailored for the Eee).  I jailbroke my iPhone and installed several non-Apple-approved applications on it.  Surely, the geeks among you must have noticed the iPhone’s …