NEWS: Scientists Discuss Robot Apocalypse

New York Times 7/25/09

The researchers — leading computer scientists, artificial intelligence researchers and roboticists who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds on Monterey Bay in California — generally discounted the possibility of highly centralized superintelligences and the idea that intelligence might spring spontaneously from the Internet. But they agreed that robots that can kill autonomously are either already here or will be soon.

DISNEY ZOMBIES

I am having a hard time writing a zombie short today.  In case I don't get around to it, I remind you (yet again) to go read DISNEY ZOMBIES, which is on chapter 23 and has finished part 1 and started on part 2.

In related news, in a couple of weeks I will have run out of reposts of End of the World stories I wrote for Twang of the Void (which I normally post on Mondays).  After they are done, I'm going to start posting my first novel which just happens to be about the end of the world.

News: It Comes From The Soil

Researchers looking for 3-foot, spitting worm under Northwest fields

The worm is said to secrete a lily-like smell when handled, spit at predators, and live in burrows 15 feet deep. There have only been four sightings.

One week in and we might have structure

I wasn't sure how I would tackle this project but it is starting to take shape.

Monday: A repost of a story done on my other blog.  I only did ten, so that will only be the case for a few months.

Tuesday thru Thursday: New single stories.  Some may end up being extremely short  All depends on my mood.

Friday: A new except from the zombie novel.  To be clear, I haven't actually written the novel.  At this point it is just a random collection of scenes in my head.  I also need a title for it.  It will probably not stay a pure zombie novel.  Other horror lurk in the streets.

Saturday and Sunday: Random apocalypse related links and such.  Not all weekends, just when I have something.

Also, if there are any guest writers out there, shoot me a line.  Always up for stuff that will give me a break.