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[links] Link salad’s dime dancing is through
SF Signal’s 10 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Author Blogs — This is cool: I’m on the list!
For Whom Do We Write? — Aidan Moher with some fascinating reflections.
Blue Tyson reviews my story “Last Plane to Heaven” — Funniest review I’ve ever gotten. For the win!
Andrew Wheeler talks about Other Earths
Print Goes Out of Style — The MLA is changing reference standards for Internet citations. (Snurched from Scrivener’s Error.)
Portraits of musicians done in cassette tape
1930s Art Deco ad for Blaupunkt radios — Seriously cool.
Brain Images Reveal the Secret to Higher IQ — The integrity of neural wiring is a big factor in determining intelligence. It’s also inheritable.
Life’s Left-Handed Secret — Twenty different amino acids go into making up the vast variety of proteins so essential to life. But why does life on Earth use only left-handed versions of amino acids to build them? Some more cool stuff about amino acids in space. (Facts do not apply if you are a Creationist.)
?otD: Where is that Chinese music?
3/24/2009
Body movement: 45 minute suburban walk
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (travel day)
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; Push of the Sky by Camille Alexa
Posted: 2:38 am Tue March 24 2009 |
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March 24th, 2009 at 1:45 pmWe write for an audience because writing is communication. We’d write even if alone to keep ourselves company.
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What print has over digital is its relatively unchanging nature. Compare a print edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica to Wikipedia for stable information over time.
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Post is a preposition, along with uncounted others, because the preposition is a function, not a specific word type.