The Creator's Blog

Hoping to enlighten creators and readers about space news, storyworld developments, storytelling challenges, and anything else that pops into our heads.

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Police React to Boston Marathon Bombs

Thanks to what happened at the Boston Marathon today, get ready for a whole lot more “homeland security”.

Guilt

Crime books always have pithy short names.

Following the same template as the other books in the Alex Delaware series, Jonathan Kellerman adds a solid new entry to his series. But, after almost thirty years with the same characters, it begs the question of age. As in, how old is Alex Delaware?

Curiosity Memory Issue, Possibly Caused By Cosmic Rays

An artists rendering of the Mars Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars

The computer of the Curiosity rover encountered a memory corruption problem possibly caused by cosmic rays. It got us thinking about computers within the URS storyworld and the effects therein.

Ski Areas: The Perfect Example of a Libertarian Society?

Kids Skiing

When skiing, I noticed the behaviors and social interactions among perfect strangers who stood to benefit nothing from acting in a kind and responsible manner with each other and had to ask, “Is this what minimal government could look like?”

How The Timeline Was Integrated

The new Unified Republic of Stars timeline.

I just added the new timeline feature to the Unified Republic of Stars. Today, I discuss how it was actually built on the MediaWiki system for display on any page on the site without having to modify any of the base code. Beware if you’re not a programmer.