[links] Link salad takes out its guitar and plays
A reader reacts to Escapement — And Pinion.
Adam Engst on iPad and ereaders — Interesting thoughts on the ebooks publishing process. (Via a mailing list I’m on.)
Language nudges Art — Language Log on linguistic gender and cheese. Mmm.
Similar quake due to hit Northwest — Home, sweet home.
A false color map of the Honshu earthquake’s tsunami wave height — One of the more frightening images I’ve ever seen, in a weird way. (Via Bad Astronomy.)
Japanese official says pumping system caused nuclear plant blast — I really feel for Japan already, but this is a twist that cuts deeply into a unique scar on their cultural psyche.
How Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Warning Systems Work — The world’s only earthquake warning system likely helped limit damage and loss of life. Government spending in action.
Coase Goes to War — Bribery as a precision guided munition.
New FAA Rule Turns Airplane Lavatories Into Deadly Traps — To quote ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=1)
danjite “Number of terrorist attacks on US planes per year, average: 0 Number of legitimate deployments of oxygen masks per year: 40-50. FAA: Remove oxygen from toilets to prevent terrorism!”
pecunium on how government regulation saves lives
Dumbing Deficits Down — Paul Krugman on deficits, healthcare and the disingenuousness of politicians.
?otD: Heavy metal or easy listening?
3/12/2011
Writing time yesterday: 2.75 hours (2,800 words on
Sunspin, much WRPA)
Body movement: Urban hiking to come
Hours slept: 8.0 hours (interrupted)
Weight: n/a (forgot)
Currently reading:
Esprit de Corps by Lawrence Durrell
Tags: Art, Books, Cheese, ebooks, Escapement, healthcare, Japan, Language, Links, Northwest, Personal, Pinion, Politics, Publishing, reviews, Science, Travel
Posted: 8:03 am Sat March 12 2011 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad loiters in LAX
A reader reacts to Escapement — Ambiguous with the liking.
The Oregon: 1898 — A portion of this battleship’s superstructure sits today in Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland.
Why Spacetime on the Tiniest Scale May Be Two-Dimensional — The latest thinking about quantum gravity suggests that spacetime is two-dimensional on the smallest scale. And there may be a way to prove it. Edwin Abbott was right?
ExoClimes 2010: Exoplanetary Atmospheres — Mmm, crunchy.
They used to Burn Catholic Churches, now they Burn Mosques — A little bit of history for the hysterics currently dominating the American political narrative.
?otD: How lax can an airport be?
9/9/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (travel)
Body movement: airport walking
Hours slept: 6.0 (interrupted)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger
Tags: Books, Cool, Escapement, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Portland, Religion, reviews, Science
Posted: 8:57 am Thu September 09 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad wishes it had a pencil-thin moustache
A reader reacts to Escapement
The United Mistakes of America — On our license to err.
Ça planait pas dans sa voix — This piece about a Belgian lawsuit over the original recording of Plastic Bertrand’s “Ça Plane Pour Moi” is both hilarious and bizarre. Read the comments, too.
Sunset, Shadowrise — A fascinating image from central Australia.
Get Ready for Steerable Photon Guns — “Steerable Photon Guns” would be a great name for a rock band.
New Planets Highlight Orbital Resonance — From the department of learning something new every day.
Gingrich to give speech drawing on ‘lessons’ from anti-war secular socialists Orwell and Camus. — The synopsis of the event at the AEI website notes that Gingrich will draw “on the lessons of Camus and Orwell” to “describe the dangers of a wartime government that uses language and misleading labels to obscure reality” The man behind the GOPAC memo is going to talk about this? Irony is not only dead; it’s been dismembered, burned, and its ashes scattered over the RNC offices.
Santorum’s Classless Society — More bizarre rhetoric from the Right. Besides which, isn’t that a Marxist phrase?
?otD: Facial hair or clean shaven?
7/29/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1 hour, 45 minutes (revisions, WRPA)
Body movement: 50 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 8.0 (solid)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Tags: Books, Culture, Escapement, Language, Links, music, Personal, Photos, Politics, reviews, Science
Posted: 4:50 am Thu July 29 2010 | Comments(2) |
[links] Link salad slides into another week of work and writing
A review of several books, including Mainspring and Escapement — Good stuff.
Lifesaving drugs may be killing health workers — A darker side to chemotherapy. (Via shelly_rae.)
The pool at Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore — Um, no. (Thanks to willyumtx.)
Adolfo Farsari – The Man Who Shot Old Japan — This is fascinating. Photos from 19th century Japan. (Indirectly via willyumtx.)
Seeing Infrared in Maps — Infrared imagery in online maps lets homeowners see their energy efficiency. This is kind of cool.
Online, We Pay With Our Time Spent Searching — An interesting look at time/value calculations for our leisure and entertainment efforts. (Thanks to my dad.)
The third Bush term — The Edge of the American West on where Obama continues to fail those of us who believed in him. Not just environmental policy, but the war, Guantanamo, civil liberties — a wide array of that peculiar Bush-era admixture of idiocy and evil continues to be propagated by the man we elected to reverse the damage.
?otD: What’s your word for world?
7/12/2010
Writing time yesterday: 4.25 hours (6,000 new words, plus WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.5 (decent)
This morning’s weigh-in: 231.6
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 2/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading:
Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
Tags: Books, Cancer, Cool, Culture, Escapement, health, healthcare, Links, Mainspring, Personal, Photos, Politics, reviews, Science, weird
Posted: 4:47 am Mon July 12 2010 | Comments(6) |
[cancer] Chemotherapy, day one of session six
Friday’s chemo infusion went well. There were no problems with the port, with the lab equipment, or with the scheduling. As a result, we were out relatively early, before 2:00 pm.
A few photos…
Me, donating books to the reading shelf in the infusion center.
This sessions collections of spoons and whatnot, including lovely hat and curious spoon from , a Star Trek spork from and a collection of spoons from .
models the hat made by .
smiles her sweet smile.
© 2010, Shelly Rae Clift, Joseph E. Lake, Jr., and Shannon Page.
This work by Shelly Rae Clift, Joseph E. Lake, Jr., and Shannon Page is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
As usual, more at the Flickr set.
Tags: Books, Calendula, Cancer, Escapement, health, Mainspring, Photos, Pinion, shellyrae
Posted: 9:18 am Sun March 28 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad pays more attention to Amazonfail
Review: Escapement by Jay Lake — An interesting take.
Next threat to Amazon’s $9.99 books? Rupert Murdoch — HarperCollins edges closer to the fray.
The Washington Post on Amazon vs Macmillan — Not a bad summation, from a big business perspective, though some of the column’s closing thoughts betray the author’s ignorance of publishing.
Tor authors express worry over their careers because of Macmillan/Amazon dispute — In which sundry of us are quoted.
speaks to the Kindle community — Much more bluntly than I, about ebooks and the direction of publishing. Funny, interesting and largely on target in the points she makes about where the industry is trying to go.
A former music industry exec’s view of Amazon vs Macmillan — Fascinating, and well worth the read, whether or not you agree with her.
Pre-Islamic architecture of Iran — Some stunning photos of a place I’ll probably never get to visit. (Nicked from .)
Hubble captures picture of asteroid collision! — Wowzers. Either that the space invaders have arrived.
Why do people vote against their own interests? — A question I’ve often asked. The GOP would be an minor, irrelevant third party if Americans consistently voted for their own interests. Very little in their platform and policies is of economic or societal benefit to their voting base, and much of it is either lateral or directly harmful. If the GOP had any traction on the issues, they’d run on them. Hence the “God, guns and gays” routine. They don’t have substance, if you’re in the bottom 95% of wage earners. The Culture Wars keep the GOP alive.
Daily Kos with a poll of things Republicans believe — A live poll of 2,000 self-identified Republicans yielded some bizarre results. Consistent with the FOX News/GOP narratives, so not surprising or deep outliers. And yes, consider the source, but ask yourself how many of these extremely weird findings are repeated in the “liberal” media every day as if they were reasonable talking points.
?otD: Where does the Orinoco flow?
2/3/2010
Writing time yesterday: 60 minutes
Body movement: n/a due to sleep issues, 30 minutes on stationary bike to come
Hours slept: 6.0
This morning’s weigh-in: 226.4
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 7/10
Currently reading: [between books]
Tags: amazonfail, Books, Escapement, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, reviews, Science
Posted: 5:11 am Wed February 03 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad sidles toward New Year’s Eve
Don’t forget the latest caption contest voting poll — I’ll be closing this out today or tomorrow, and declaring a winner, so if you haven’t voted yet, go check ‘em out.
A reader reacts to Mainspring and Escapement — Mixed reviews in both cases. Also a number of other pocket reviews here.
Today’s Sally Forth hits a point about our missing future that doesn’t get addressed often enough — “The Gernsback Continuum” notwithstanding.
Spelunking the T — A tour of abandoned lines and stations of Boston’s subway. I am soooo jealous.
The first woman to navigate a dirigible solo — From x-planes. The hat is something.
Inside the Secret Service — A photoessay from Life.
The Lithium Rush — Technology Review with a striking photoessay on Bolivian salt flats and lithium.
The Problem With Warp Drive — Centauri Dreams with some deep neepery on the Alcubierre warp drive.
?otD: Pandora or Endor?
12/29/2009
Body movement: n/a (60 minute urban walk forthcoming)
Hours slept: 6.0
This morning’s weigh-in: 226.0
Currently reading:
Living With Ghosts by Kari Sperring
Tags: Books, Contests, Cool, Culture, Escapement, Funny, Links, Mainspring, Personal, Photos, Polls, reviews, Science
Posted: 5:10 am Tue December 29 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad wanders into the weekend, idly scratching
A reader reacts to Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon
| Barnes & Noble | Borders ]
RULES OF SEDUCTION: writing the opposite sex — Justine Musk on character.
English, Jack — A blog for you really high end grammar geeks.
Articulated Railroad Car: 1935 — Another quite cool patent drawing.
The Fairey Rotodyne — This looks to me like some crazed Soviet project. Would you fly in it?
APOD with an image of Stickney Crater on Phobos
The Gravitational Lens and Communications — Some serious Big Idea science from Centauri Dreams.
?otD: What age is this the dawning of, anyway?
11/7/2009
Body movement: 2 hour, 15 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 5.5
This morning’s weigh-in: 231.2
Currently reading:
The Jade Man’s Skin by Daniel Fox
Tags: Books, Cool, Escapement, Language, Links, Personal, Process, reviews, Science, Tech, trains, Writing
Posted: 7:42 am Sat November 07 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad for a travel day
A reader reacts to Green [ Powell's | Amazon
| Kindle | Barnes & Noble | Borders ] — Rather badly. Mixed in with a number of capsule reviews. My favorite line of the review is the closer.
Incredible Astronomical Clocks — Fans of the Mainspring series, and readers of Escapement in particular, will enjoy this Dark Roasted Blend feature.
Project BLT — Making your own BLT. Literally. (Via Freakonomics.)
I do not know much about rivers. — The Edge of the American West on homoeroticism and race in American literature.
12 Insane Elevated Eco-Parks & Dizzying Outdoor Overlooks — (Thanks to .)
Darwin Blogs the Beagle Voyage — Now there’s a cool idea.
A Startup That Builds Biological Parts — Ginkgo BioWorks aims to push synthetic biology to the factory level.
?otD: When you look down from the jet, don’t you get that magic feeling?
10/2/2009
Body movement: n/a (traveling)
Hours slept: 5.0 (sick bounce)
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (traveling)
Currently reading:
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
Tags: Books, clockpunk, Cool, Escapement, Food, Green, Links, Mainspring, Personal, Photos, Publishing, reviews, Science
Posted: 2:00 am Fri October 02 2009 | Comments(1) |
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