Shadow Unit

Interesting geeky project of the nonce: Shadow Unit, from Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Sarah Monette, and Will Shetterly. It’ll be updated weeklyish with more stuff; starting in February there’ll be fiction every two weeks, including a full novel.

Right now it’s the front page plus two character dossiers, but if you go here you’ll find the rest of the dossiers. And a message board. Keen.

Edit: And LiveJournals. Start maybe here. I haven’t figured who’s who yet, although that one is obviously Chaz, because I need to get to work.

The one-liner for the whole schmear is Criminal Minds meets X-Files, I think.

Originally published at Imaginary Vestibule.

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My call for New Hampshire: McCain, Romney, Huckabee; and Obama, Clinton, and Edwards. I was off on my Democratic predictions. Bad me. It's interesting and somewhat worrisome that the independent voters went to vote for McCain over Obama. Of course, the media was calling that a race while the Democratic primary was supposed to be sewn up, and people like to feel as though they're making a difference, so who knows?

Michael Whouley took over field operations in New Hampshire for Clinton a couple of weeks ago. Google him. I have no doubt that his efforts helped.

I'm pleased that Hillary came back. I like Edwards better as a candidate, but (call me a grinch) I do think experience matters.

Nevada and South Carolina get the next chance to be critical on the Democratic side. There's no good current polling. Watch for either Edwards or Richardson dropping out and endorsing someone -- Richardson would matter in Nevada, and Edwards would matter in both states.

For the Republicans, Michigan is set to be pretty big, since it's another state Romney "should" win. Huckabee's polled well there too. If Romney wins it, he's back and it's a three-way slugfest. (My preferred outcome.) If McCain wins it, he's got the advantage for a while. If Huckabee wins it, he looks like the frontrunner.

Second Lives

I was looking up Pat Schroeder for various reasons, and discovered that she's currently President of the American Association of Publishers. She's in charge of lobbying against librarians; the AAP also filed a brief arguing for copyright extension in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

Putz.

Also, Tipper Gore. It's no wonder I'm cynical about politicians. (Yeah, it's not Al's responsibility.)