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History of Science Fiction — And here’s one for sci-fi geeks: Artist Ward Shelley’s hand-drawn flowchart tracks the literary genre’s 2,500-year legacy, from nascent roots in mythology to the post-Star Wars space operas of today. I object to characterizing space opera as somehow a post-Star Wars phenomenon, but that’s a headline writer problem. The chart is weirdly cool. (Via Curiosity Counts.)
The Law of Online Sharing — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg will eventually have to deal with the fact that all growth has limits.
Hashtags’ mission creep — Language Log with more than you ever wanted to know about #hashtags.
Disruptions: Norelco on Takeoff? Fine. Kindle? No. — You can shave during takeoff and landing?
Lie of the Jungle: The Truth About Cheeta the Chimpanzee — The truth about Cheeta? Also, an interesting story about publishing. (Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1){kind=small}
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Smokin’ hot island rises up from depths of the Red Sea — How, um, Mosaic.
All Four Oregon Wolf Packs Are Making Babies — The politics of this are rough, as rural conservatives out here hate wolves almost as much as they hate liberals, and for no better reason, but it’s good to see them growing.
Christian Priests Brawl at Jesus’ Birthplace — I think the spiritual life has great value, but when you get to the point in your religious attachments where you are beating people up over your claims to an old building, you’re no longer talking about spirituality, and a sane secularism would be far preferable. Um, good God yes.
Bachmann’s Iowa chairman quits, endorses Paul — Oops.
“Every barrel of oil that comes out of those sands in Canada is a barrel of oil that we don’t have to buy from a foreign source,” Mr. Perry said — Um. Canada, she is not foreign? And conservatives wonder why the rest of us think you guys have lost your minds.
?otd: Ever drive a Ferrari?
12/29/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 10.0 (solid)
Weight: 206.4
Currently (re)reading: The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey
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Your link about the island rising from the Red Sea goes to an online comic that’s pretty neat, but has nothing whatsoever to do with islands rising from the Red Sea.
Answer of the day: I never got to ride one, but I got very close to a Ferrari and even got to hold the keys during a translation job at a local car paintshop which does the paintwork for the only Ferrari dealer in North Germany that just happens to be in walking distance to my house.
Since we have a Ferrari dealer in the neighbourhood, they’re not exactly rare sights around here. Even wrecked Ferraris aren’t an uncommon sight. There was one guy who bought a brand-new Ferrari for half a million Euro or so. He drove it from the yard of the car dealer onto the road and hit the accelerator. One hundred meters later, he crashed his brand-new Ferrari into a tractor (this is a rural area). Luckily, no one was injured. The tractor had a few dents and scratches, but could drive on without problems. The Ferrari, alas, was scrap metal. Half a million Euros wrecked in one hundred meters. That has to be some kind of new record.