BrewsterNorth.Net

A haiku:

Isaac Newton's laws
Enable Albert Einstein
To catch a thrown ball.

(This goes out to sibling unit, who could use a funny right now.)

In which Brewster posts links to resources related to some of hir original characters and the world they live in.

Jonathan "Morg" Morgenstern attended Trinity College, Cambridge (somewhat by mistake – the object of his hero-worship actually attended Trinity Hall).

Mel Sajenic is a traceur, or practitioner of Le Parkour.

Marcus "Cobra" King (fka Markus Koenig) suffers from rhotacism which is why he pretends to be American when in fact he hails from the Midlands. (He's Jewish, so fakes Brooklyn.)

Everyone is subject to the EuroCarte biometric ID system, whether they like it or not...

Haven't had time to 'liveblog' as I hoped. Updates will be forthcoming.

Meanwhile a little link of use to a forthcoming AladdinFic:

Hey, I'm the Doctor. I can save the universe using a kettle and some string! And look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable!

(was Angus MacGyver really another renegade Time Lord working undercover on Earth?)

In which Brewster indulges hir inner Asimov.

AAAI Robots News (referenced in this book)

Android World

Boston Globe: Don't just stand there, think

Yuletide: C/Fe by Dorinda [warning: nsfw] (the only occurrence I can think of of human/android slash in the Asimov 'verse, and it's rather good)

(ty nibbler): BBC News: Plan to teach baby robot to talk

(looks in alarm at the number of bookmarks labeled "Fic Reference"; makes mental note to offload some of them onto here, since that was the original function of a blog, nicht wahr?)
Well, here's the latest one.

It may seem funny to commemorate the birthday of a fictional character, particularly of one's own invention, but any excuse for a little bit of celebration is fine by me.

Due to a few technical difficulties >.> I couldn't post this on January 29th, the actual birthdate. (Based upon the fictional birthday of a very real actor.) I lack the fu to backdate it.

I ficced in this universe on this date in '06 and '07, but on 1/29/08 my muse had the dumb, and so instead of posting something original to my universe I'm going to cheat by posting a link to a far more interesting essay by a LiveJournaller (LJist?) who goes by the journal name 'kassrachel', concerning the parallels to be drawn between fanworks and the Jewish tradition of 'midrash' (exegetical tales). Intriguing stuff.

Happy second birthday, Birdy.

... I decided that I would get this site going with some all-new fiction written just for some friends of mine. (Most of them are Doctor Who fans, so the fic will reflect that.)

Each person was asked, round about last Christmas, if they wanted to contribute three "wishes" for a fic they'd like written (hence my name for this one-orfuh-ficathon, "AladdinFic").

I'll be posting these little by little in the order I get them done: one is already complete at time of writing and will be posted soon.