“Skeumorph” is a term I only came across recently – and like many such terms, once you learn of its existence, it ties up a set of things you already knew about, in a bundle that gives you a better grasp on that issue than you had before. Once aware of it, you start to see it everywhere. Skeumorph is defined by the online Oxford Dictionary as: an object or feature which imitates the design …
Just a quick post to comment on the ‘situation’ in Iran. Friends and family keep telling me that I’m “lucky” to have got out of Iran before this business with the British embassy in Tehran blew up. I cannot help but notice how the coverage on the TV here is very similar to that that I saw before I went to Iran. I cannot help further noticing that the comments people are making to me …
some more videos and soundtracks from Fórum Fántastico, Lisbon…
how I got on at the Fórum Fantástico in Lisbon…
entrevista com Diário de Notícias…
artigo de João Seixas – article in a Portuguese literary magazine…
a live interview I did for Portuguese television…
a review of The Third God in SciFiNow…
a review of the Stone Dance appearing on Strange Horizons…
a review of the Stone Dance by Caroline Mullan…
