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[links] Link salad is ragged

What Makes a Good Review? — Andrew Wheeler on the fine art of reviewing.

Visual aid for the final serial comma — Hilarious. (From Language Log, also tipped to me by corwynofamber.)

Gamers, Not Scientists, Solve AIDS Enzyme Puzzle

Nanotube Cables Hit a Milestone: As Good as Copper — Researchers achieve a goal they’ve been after since the 1980s—the advance could make cars and airplanes lighter, and renewable energy more practical.

Pop Kola, Kolorized: 1939 — An interesting photo, to say the least, from Shorpy.

Paint Creek, the Town Perry Left Behind — The rest of us should be so lucky.

Pennsylvania’s Department of State denies inmate’s request for a copy of the state constitution — Wow. Just wow. Read the article, the reasoning is inane. (Thanks to danjite.)

Sarah Palin, Glen Rice, And The Fleeting “Who Cares?” Standard — I couldn’t care less about Palin’s sexual history as a private person. I care a great deal about her significant political role in a party that makes it a core political objectie to monitor and deny the same right of sexual privacy to her fellow Americans, in the interests of stirring votes among the bigoted and foolish under the pretense of morality. Hypocrisy much?

Let’s Talk About Death — GOP, it’s your brand.

?otD: I got nothing.

9/19/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (ill from chemo side effects)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 9.5 hours (severely interrupted, plus napping)
Weight: 217.6
Currently reading: Matter by Iain M. Banks

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[links] Link salad collects tongue depressors

The Hugo Awards ceremony will be streamed — If’n you want to watch me and kenscholes do our thing. Or, you know, the winners.

Another Peek Inside Tales for Canterbury: “Eggs for Dinner” by Jay Lake

I Watched Every Coen Brothers Movie — Hmmm. The Big Lebowski is still my favorite.

Caesar and the power of No — Language Log on Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the emergence of language.

New Non-Invasive Technology Shows Promise in Shrinking Liver Tumors — (Via Chris W. Johnson.)

New drug could cure nearly any viral infection — This could be huge. (Via David Goldman.)

’60s-era nuclear cruise ship bides its time in obscurity — The things we have just lying around in this country. (Via David Goldman.)

Tornado and Rainbow Over Kansas — This is a heck of a photo from APOD.

If the world lived in a single city — A handy lttle chart to aid American readers, at least, in visualization. (Thanks to danjite.)

Bachmann and Perry – a beautiful 2012 rivalry — Maybe. As I’ve said before, I find the prospect of an Evangelical/Christianist president far more frightening and destructive than a Mormon or Muslim president.

Rick Perry and the Hucksterism of the Rich — Juan Cole on why Rick Perry is frightening and destructive.

?otD: When was the last time you ate a popsicle?

8/14/2011
Writing time yesterday: 4.0 hours (3,300 words on Sunspin, extensive WRPA on multiple other projects)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.0 hours (solid)
Weight: 226.0
Currently reading: Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik

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