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ISBW #131 – Worldcon Interviews – Lake, (Felix) Gilman, and Kelly, Kessel, and Cadigan — Mur Lafferty’s podcast, interviewing a few of us writers who were at WorldCon.
Ukrainian Sand Animation — Wow. Fascinating video. (Thanks to MH, whose LJ handle I suddenly can’t remember.)
Famous photos recreated in Lego — Cool.
Astronomers Plan Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves — Now that is some bad-ass instrumentation.
Lightcraft: A Laser Push to Orbit — Centauri Dreams with a write up on an interesting launch technology. Like Project Orion, without the radiation poisoning.
Venus probe images hint at ancient ocean — Ah, to be young again. Or something. (Nicked from
You’re Likely to Live! — Freakonomics on ageing and the Gompertz Law of human mortality. Who knew? (Besides actuaries, of course.)
A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words — Anti-Obama derangement, fairly literally.
Race is a Factor — Ta-Nehisi Coates with more on anti-Obama vitriol, comparing it to anti-Clinton vitriol. Hey, remember when the Right was tut-tutting about liberals and their inexplicable Bush derangement syndrome? Yeah, well, they sure don’t remember it.
?otD: Why is a duck?
9/15/2009
Body movement: 15 minutes of stretching and meditation, 60 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 5.75
This morning’s weigh-in: 229.4
Currently reading: The Real Wizard of Oz by Rebecca Loncraine
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Posted: 4:39 am Tue September 15 2009 |
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Whenever I see something like that kid at the ant-Obama rally, I adjust my already pretty low expectations of the US school system a little further downwards. I mean, you would expect them to have at least heard about WWII, considering that every second movie and political speech still seems to reference WWII.
Though there is a silver lining to this sort of idiocy: Just think how absolutely furious Hitler would be to find himself compared to a black man.