truepenny: artist's rendering of Sidneyia inexpectans (ws: poets)
Sarah/Katherine ([personal profile] truepenny) wrote2007-07-26 02:48 pm

New Weird guessing game

Over on his extremely cool site, Jeff VanderMeer is having a guess the author contest for the New Weird anthology he and Ann are editing for Tachyon.

I think this is an exceptionally cool thing to do, tho' I am ineligible for the contest as I do in fact have a piece in the anthology.

hello

(Anonymous) 2008-02-23 07:57 pm (UTC)(link)
National Transportation Safety Board recently divulged they had funded a project with the US auto makers for the past five years. The NTSB covertly funded a project whereby the auto makers were installing black boxes in four wheel drive pickup trucks in an effort to determine, in fatal accidents, the circumstances in the last 15 seconds before the crash. They were surprised to find in 49 of the 50 states the last words of drivers in 61.2% of fatal crashes were, "Oh, Shit!" Only the state of Texas was different, where 89.3% of the final words were, "Hey Y'all, hold my beer and watch this!"