OK, that was a stupid headline. But I do one of these link roundups a day, and I've long since run out of interesting ways to say that. So let's just move on, shall we?

Review: 

• Technology Review features Stewart Brand writing about Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge.
  

Interview:

• James Gunn and Bradley Denton interview each other at Mundane SF.
  

There's an official website for the new book James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice Sheldon by Julie Phillips.

The Concord (NH) Monitor has an article about Jeanne Cavellos's Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop.

IGN has the first 24 minutes of A Scanner Darkly available online, for those of you who'd like to watch part of a movie in a little screen without leaving the house. [via Clark Perry's blog]

Sherwood Smith explains the dread lure of the Mary Sue over at Deep Genre.

An entity calling itself "Armchair Anarchist" tells us mere meat-humans that we have nothing to fear from the Singularity on Velcro City Tourist Board. Right. That's what they want us to think!

[many of these links via Locus Online]