Over in a nice discussion of the generation gap in SF on Tor.com, a commenter crunches numbers on the ages of Hugo winners and comes up with a pretty clear trend. Really fascinating, assuming you care about this sort of thing in the first place.
ETA: A handy graph, all color-coded and shit, via Tobias Buckell. Check out that eggplant-shaded sliver.
ETA2: Original thread now contains Nebula numbers too.
Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.
The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.
The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.
Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”
Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.
I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.
LibriVox — “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”
I don’t think you can read too much into those numbers without greater context. Author popularity plays a significant role in who wins which may skew the results to more established (older) authors. I’d like to see the ages of the nominees as well as the amount of time between an author’s first publication and awards before starting to draw conclusions.