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The Inaugural Airship Awards — In which Mainspring is nominated. Cherie’s going to kick my ass, though.
How to communicate with writers — SMBC nails us.
Seaplane Cruiser — :: wants ::
How High Is The Sky? — A 1940s approach to education through illustration. Fascinating. (Via goulo.)
Transgenic Worms Make Tough Fibers — The story is interesting in its own right, but I love the headline.
Giant marine virus found — Speaking of bizarre headlines…
Hugh Hefner has been good for us — Roger Ebert with a meditation on sex and society, which reminds me all over again why I can never be a conservative. Social repression and criminalization of consensual private behavior are profoundly unAmerican and inhumane, and they are mainstays of conservative thought and political action to this day. [ETA: Perhaps obviously, this link will not be especially worksafe.]
Climate Change: The Evidence — The problem with staking your scientific views on political positions is that facts are evidence-based, not rhetorical.
Top Six Established Laws That Tea Partiers Claim Are Unconstitutional — Coz you know, rational and nuanced social policy is such a critical hallmark of the Tea Party.
?otD: Cardassians or Kardashians?
10/27/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (medical follies)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 6.75 hours (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: 242.2
Yesterday’s chemo/post-op stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: I Wonder by Marian Bantjes
Posted: 5:45 am Wed October 27 2010 |
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Cora
October 27th, 2010 at 5:03 pmI must confess I was a bit confused why the Hugh Hefner post was labeled as “not safe for work”, because while there were lots of photos of Hefner, there were none of what made him famous. My eyes had completely skipped over the one photo of an undressed woman halfway down. A pity, because it’s a gorgeous photo.
Good article, but the comments were a bit depressing, because a lot of people obviously cannot tell the difference between nasty woman-objectifying porn and Playboy. More evidence of American puritanism at work, it seems.
BTW, I’m probably one of the few people who really read Playboy for the articles or rather for the fiction, because as a teenager I used to borrow my Dad’s occasional Playboy mag to read the SF stories they occasionally published (Arthur C. Clarke mostly).
Question of the Day: Cardassians obviously. And I would be very pleased, if they could lock up their nigh namesakes on a prison planet or do whatever it is Cardassians do to their enemies (It’s been too long since I watched Star Trek), so we’ll be spared their antics.