[links] Link salad plays at the hard case
Thousands of authors opt out of Google book settlement — The banal evil of Google, again.
Launch Pad 2010 Information: Application Window Opening Soon, Guest Instructor Announced — I did this two years ago. It was an awesome experience. Go check it out.
Enceladus is erupting! — Bad Astronomy with an interesting article and some hellacious photography from Cassini.
Convair XB-36H — From the Department of Really Bad Ideas.
Non Sequitur nails the Tea Party — And it’s not even a political comic…
The Birchers Are Real — and They’re Spectacular — More objective evidence that the conservative movement is insane. The John Birch Society is back in the mainstream.
Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions — Even more objective evidence that the conservative movement is insane. That this rhetoric is embraced, approved and gets votes is disgusting and profoundly inhumane. Sociopathic, even. I’d say “stay classy, GOP,” but I don’t have the heart to twit you guys on this piece of vile tripe. (Thanks to .)
?otD: Who was the comic-paper idol who let you bend the rules?
2/24/2010
Writing time yesterday: 3 hours, 40 minutes
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 7.5 (slept poorly)
This morning’s weigh-in: 228.2
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 3/10
Currently reading: [between books]
Tags: Conventions, Cool, Funny, Google, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Publishing, Science
Posted: 5:54 am Wed February 24 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad for a Nebraska morning
Last day for entering caption contest [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — I plan to close it tonight and build the voting poll.
See the second comment on my most recent Google Books post — Fascinating perspective.
on the paradox of choice — Good reading for writers.
Locus Award Finalists Announced — Lots of really good work there, by lots of really good people. Congratulations to all!
A cyberattack on an American city — Sobering, and sadly unsurprising. (Thanks to .)
?otD: Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?
4/28/2009
Body movement: 70 minute suburban walk
This morning’s weigh-in: n/a (traveling)
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville
Tags: Awards, Contests, Google, Links, Personal, Process, Publishing, Tech, Writing
Posted: 3:37 am Tue April 28 2009 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad saddles up for the Omaha trail drive
Return of the caption contest. Now with pandas! [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]
Me, on the Google Books settlement and your legislators: [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ] — (Yes, this is a repeat link, but I didn’t want this post to fall into the trough of weekendity.)
says nice things about METAtropolis
Theory of sacrifices — Art writing guru James Gurney is at it again. As it happens, I don’t entirely agree with him, but he’s making a great point about minimalism and natural transparency in style. Like I would know what transparent style looks like…
Tom’s Glossary of Book Publishing Terms — Hahahahahahahah.
Planet of the Grapes — A wine map of the world, for you fans of alternative cartography. Not to mention oenophiles. (You know who you are.)
on restaurant discounts for the unemployed — Some interesting thinking there. Go check it out, put in your 2 cents worth or show her some link love.
on swine flu — IRL, he is an ER doc.
APOD with the interaction between Prometheus and Saturn’s F-ring
Flexible Heat Miner — Technology Review with some cool commercially applied tech. This one is awesome.
Non Sequitur on cospiracy theories — As I read this I realized something odd. Conservatives are always on with the conspiracy paranoia. Red Scare, John Birchers, all the hoo-hah during the Clinton years about Whitewater and Vince Foster, the perpetual rumblings about world government and nationalization, the Obama “birthers” and the widespread belief that Obama is coming for their guns. Yet all the real conspiracies in American politics which leap to mind were foisted by conservatives. Watergate, Iran-Contra, the fraudelent run-up to the Iraq War (specifically the Iraq Study Group), pretty much anything Cheney has ever done. As usual, those who yell the loudest are the perps, apparently. Are there any significant conspiracies in modern political history foisted by liberal-progressives which have objective reality to them, the way Watergate or Iran-Contra do?
?otD: Omaha?
4/27/2009
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
This morning’s weigh-in: 218.0
Currently reading: The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Melville; The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet by Reif Larsen
Tags: Contests, Cool, Culture, Food, Funny, Google, health, Links, Personal, Politics, Process, Publishing, reviews, Science, Tech, Writing
Posted: 4:24 am Mon April 27 2009 | Comments(0) |
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