[links] Link salad marks the calendar and sighs
2013 Hugos: Best Novella — A reader offers capsule reviews of the Best Novella Hugo ballot, including my own “The Stars Do Not Lie”. ‘Stoned wallabies make crop circles’ — Australian wallabies are...
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[links] Link salad lazes on Sunday morning
‘Mockingbird’ Author Sues to Regain Copyright — Huh. Exotic Alloy of Ferrous Oxide Man — Scrivener’s Error is very funny (and snarky) about the new Iron Man movie [ imdb ]. Mis-printed sign amuses...
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[links] Link salad prove to you that it’s no fool, walks across your swimming...
It’s hard to rely on my good intentions, when my head’s full of things that I can’t mention — Lisa Costello on how my cancer news is affecting her. Game Theory and the Treatment of Cancer — Thinking...
View Article[personal] Editorial process on Link Salad
For no particular reason, here is an explanation of my editorial process on the daily Link Salad posts. I scan 46 Web sites every morning, clustered in bookmark groups I refer to as “Science”,...
View Article[links] Link salad wonders how it can dance when our earth is turning
JayFest — Sci-Fi Book Fair & Group Signing — My friends at Powell’s are hosting a group signing in support of my cancer journey, book sales to benefit the Clayton Memorial Medical Fund. The evening...
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[links] Link salad is always questing
Kyle Cassidy reads steampunk in the original Klingon A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling — (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.) Ghost War — Electronic and physical...
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[links] Link salad for a sleepy Friday
Why John O’Halloran shaved his head mustache and beard — For Christine, and for me. Go read this. Jay Lake, Alien Hunter — The recent Waterloo Productions video in a non-Facebook environment. Jay...
View Article[links] Link salad’s hands felt like two balloons
Game of Thrones author braces for backlash after shocking ending — Sucker’s been in print for years, not sure what’s shocking about the Red Wedding at this point. The earwormery — An ongoing academic...
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[links] Link salad hears the voice of reason, disregards
Iain Banks dies of cancer aged 59 — Author Iain Banks has died aged 59, two months after announcing he had terminal cancer, his family has said. Sigh. An oil painting of Green — By artist Lindsey Look....
View Article[links] Link salad watches a basketball game or two
2013 Hugo picks: novellas — Interesting and highly negative review of my novella “The Stars Do Not Lie.” Among other things, the reader’s interpretation of the racial angle in the story is almost...
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[links] Link salad watches the tides come in, the tides go out
The Atlantic in Paris: Dispatch #2 — Ta-Nehisi Coates continues his wonderful mediation on being in France with his family. Can you name all the games and beat the cheat? — Another filmed backwards...
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[links] Link salad knows that property is theft
Organ Moods — Nope. I got nothing. The Dalston House — A London art project. Oh wow. (Via Slacktivist Fred Clark.) Chasing the Edge of the Solar System — (Via threeoutside.) Lawmakers Want to Create...
View Article[links] Link salad’s face at first just ghostly
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming — A lecture explaining why using our imaginations, and providing for others to use theirs, is an obligation for all citizens....
View Article[links] Link salad says it’s your birthday
Centuries-Old Manuscript Reveals Love for Richard III Bad Science — Language Log on problems in science. Your Liver May Be ‘Eating’ Your Brain — New research shows the liver and hippocampus (the memory...
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[links] Link salad gets a shiver in the dark
Akira Kurosawa — Ever watched The Hidden Fortress [ imdb ]? To my eyes, Star Wars [ imdb ], as much fun as it is, is only a pallid remake of the Japanese original. (Via Cora Buhlert, who has a lot to...
View Article[links] Link salad’s way is shut
How Did @#$%&! Come to Represent Profanity? — The grawlix! (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.) Somebody Should Write about Those Conscientious Objectors — A bit of Oregon history. (Via David Goldman.)...
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[links] Link salad has its back to the sunrise
The 500-year-long battle to make written irony easier to understand — One of our most well-known experts on irony lived a life that was a mess of ironies itself: he was a married, gay High Anglican who...
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[links] Link salad wakes up, gets out of bed, drags a comb across its head
Kids and Dogs — Read this all the way through. It only takes a minute, and the effort is worth it. (Via David Goldman.) Want a Starship? Think Big. Think Really Big Building Cars Out of Batteries Isn’t...
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[links] Link salad is like a bridge over troubled waters
The lights go out and I can’t be saved, tides that I tried to swim against — Lisa Costello talks about her end of what’s been going on in our life lately, including parts of the story I have not been...
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[links] Link salad hopes to relax for a change
Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons fight cancer Street music in Paris — Note the photo credit at the top of the article. I apparently get around. Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene — A...
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