[Links]
[links] Link salad is indolent
Pregnancy Porn: Alien Impregnation In Science Fiction
Wittertainment’s code of conduct — For cinemas, where apparently the New Rude is asking other people to stop being rude. ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
goulolil_shepherd
Useless Studies, Real Harm — On marketing-driven drug trials.
Weird Moon Crater May Be Crash Site of Old NASA Spacecraft
Russian Nuclear Icebreakers: to the North Pole! — Dark Roasted Blend with a photo essay on Russian nuclear ice breakers. Cool stuff.
Killer Cars: An Extra 1,000 Pounds Increases Crash Fatalities by 47% — SUVs are an excellent example of risk transfer. Anyone who drives one in order to feel safer is explicitly choosing to make me more unsafe in exchange.
No, new data does not “blow a gaping hole in global warming alarmism” — There goes that reality with its liberal bias again. Which, as I’ve pointed out before, is only a liberal bias because of conservative dedication to counterfactuals in the face of overwhelming evidence. Their cynical empowerment of evolution denialism in pursuit of low-information voters has opened the door to legitimizing much wider intellectual dysfunction by privileging opinion over evidence.
European Extremism Scares Arabs
Apple has more cash than the U.S. Treasury — Thank you, GOP. So where’s all that prosperity those Bush tax cuts were supposed to bring? Seems to me we did a lot better under Clinton.
Jon Stewart on the conservative obsession with victimization — In case you missed it. “…some of the most free-range, organically grown, disingenous, ideologically marinated, un-self-awareness I’ve ever seen in the wild.”
?otD: What question would you put here?
7/30/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (post-op recovery)
Body movement: 30 minutes stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.75 hours (solid)
Weight: 225.2
Currently reading: The Dervish House by Ian McDonald
Posted: 8:54 am Sat July 30 2011 |
Where am I?
You are reading the blog of Jay Lake, speculative fiction writer and author of hundreds of short stories, many novels, and winner of the John W. Campbell Award.
Learn more here.
Comments
Leave a Reply
« [movies] Etiquette | [photos] Your Saturday moment of zen »
Cora
July 30th, 2011 at 5:31 pmThanks for the link about the supernatural pregnancy video. This is probably my most hated trope ever – indeed one of the clips shown is the reason I stopped watching the show in question, though it had been a favourite before – and I’m glad to see more people speaking out against that sort of crap.
SF Signal: SF Tidbits for 7/31/11
July 30th, 2011 at 11:15 pm[...] Interviews & ProfilesNY Times interviews Chan Koonchung. [via Paul Di Filippo]Black Gate interviews Dave Gross (Part 2). ArticlesBibliophile Stalker on The Dragon and the Stars Links and Philippine Speculative Fiction Updates August 2011 Edition.SciFi Ideas on Dystopian Worlds in Science Fiction.Nancy Kress on Clarion Graduation.Lisa Parkin on Lovers & Fighters.Paul Cornell on SFX and Asimov's on Zinio.Night Shade Books on Countdown to Cthulhu: Cthulhupunk?Graham Edwards on Revisiting Cinefex (7): Willis O'Brien.Black Gate on The Future of Bookstores.Sociological Images on Alien Impregnation in Science Fiction. [via Jay Lake] [...]