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[links] Link salad for a travel day
Cherenkov blue — A fascinating lateral take on my story “The Sky that Wraps the World Round, Past the Blue and Into the Black”, which uses the piece as a jumping off place to talk about a bit of physics.
Fiction Rule of Thumb — xkcd nails our genre.
The House on the Rock — A very cool, very weird place with a lot of (accidental) steampunk. (Thanks to lordofallfools.)
Machu Picchu’s far-flung residents — Interesting anthropology on Incan royalty and their serving class. (Thanks to lt260.)
The ‘Secret Jews’ of San Luis Valley — Genetics, religion and hidden culture. (Thanks to lt260.)
APOD with the first rocket launch from Cape Canaveral — You can smell the fresh paint on the future in this photo.
Low-Power Liquid Lens — The mighty power of water optics. Cool stuff.
Teaching Bacteria to Behave — Unicellular Skinnerism?
Palin comes out as pro-choice — “… should anyone end up in jail for having an [...] abortion, absolutely not.” Right. Because, um, that’s what the pro-life movement wants. Erm. (And yes, I do know the pro-life agenda is as much about criminalizing medical procedures and punishing providers as it is about victimizing women. Still, this is another of those deeply disingenuous feel-good answers designed to make the Scary Right less scary to middle of the road voters. N.b.: she also said she believed in a Constitutional right to privacy.)
Kathleen Parker Shocked To Find Her Party’s Full Of “Vicious””, “Threatening”, Delusional Wingnuts — Conservative hate speech monger disturbed by conservative hate speech! Amazing how it feels when it’s directed at you, isn’t it?
Time with an Obama poll — Note that your Liberal Media did not ask leading and highly inaccurate about McCain, only about Obama. (Via Eschaton.)
10/02/08
Body movement: airport walking (to come)
Last night’s weigh-out: n/a
This morning’s weigh-in: 233.8
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Posted: 3:54 am Thu October 02 2008 |
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1. tetar
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 amIf I’m not mistaken, the House on the Rocks is used extensively as one of the roadside attraction scenes in American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
2. wokka
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:36 pmThanks for linking to my post. I’m not sure that it said anything of worth about your story at all, but it shows the way I sometimes think when I read stories: I get caught by some details, and they make me think in various directions.
3. Jay
October 2nd, 2008 at 8:27 pmI liked your post…it was interesting and entertaining, whether or not it said something important about my story.