Writer and puppeteer Mary Robinette Kowal sez, "Renovation, the 69th World Science Fiction Convention, has invited my puppet company, Other Hand Productions, to perform our production of Whatnot at the 2011 WorldCon in Reno this August. We'd like to go. The only problem is that there's not enough money in the budget to make it affordable, so we're running a Kickstarter campaign. We could use some help getting there." (Be sure to check out the $1,000 level reward — woah!)
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This air quality monitor is a cute bird that dies when you need to air out your home
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Cory Doctorow's "Reverse Centaur" book — why AI is hell on workers
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Real Life Comix: 51 true NYC stories from 66 cartoonists (and Moby)
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