Full-Time Hobby

Redstone Science Fiction is up and running.

We have a good first issue, with a lot of our Mallet friends participating and we are quite pleased.

An interview with editor Lou Anders was picked up by io9!

(Now begins the campaign for work from Tobermory & Clyde for issue #2!)

Internet famous.

You've probably heard about the JSU President being accused of plagiarizing his dissertation at Alabama. It was an Ed.D. in Higher Ed Administration, finished in 1999. He copied a dissertation completed in 1996, by Carl Boening! Our Chuck is internet famous.
What plagiarism looks like - Boing Boing
What plagiarism looks like. - Orange Crate Art
What plagiarism looks like - google doc
Prof denies contact regarding plagiarism - Tuscaloosa News
I remember Chuck doing this research. Miller was a nice guy, esp. for a professor, and Tobermory was in the program for a while. Doesn't seem real. I guesss, if you're going to copy a dissertation, copy a Malleteer.

Mallet is everywhere

I've been going to ReasonTV for a while now & watching their videos. Today, I watched this one: Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye. (It's excellent & infuriating all at the same time.)

Also, I noticed that it had won Best Documentary Short at the Oxford (Mississippi) Film Festival 2009. I went to the Oxford Film Festival blog & noticed a familiar name- no, not Morgan Freeman, wisenheimers-

“There’s so much satisfaction in putting something together and watching people enjoy it,” said Michelle Emanuel, festival co-director with Micah Ginn and Molly Fergusson.

Another Mallet Freshman After His First Party

This poor boy just had dental surgery. We've all been there kid.

Keats in Space

Our friend Keats Wilkie works for JPL/NASA and has an experiment on the latest Space Shuttle mission. He sent me a note and pictures:
- Mission is going great, thus far. Astronauts activate the experiment Sunday night (Monday morning) at 0030 CDT. NASA may show it live on NASA TV, although you might miss it if you blink. All the astronauts have to do is throw one switch, confirm a light came on, then go back to bed.
- There are some cool pictures of Endeavour on-line now, with the flight experiment (RIGEX) barely visible in the cargo bay. The RIGEX flight experiment is that small can all the way in the back, passenger side, with Air Force decals all over it. It's looking kind of lonely in that last shot. ;-)
- At flickr: one, two, three.

Sound Familiar To Any Malleteers?

Is the Capitol Building the newest target of that nefarious defecator who plagued our hallowed halls in the days of yore?