Break Through Writer’s Block via Stepcase Lifehack Why Banned Books Week matters By John Mark Ockerbloom, writing at Everybody’s Libraries: My oldest child is only 8, but he’s already coming up with new and challenging questions on an almost-daily basis. By the time kids reach double-digit ages (which is the young end of the audience […]
Private Rockets Could Boost Military, Too via Danger Room from Wired.com Pirated Arms Freighter Cornered by U.S. Navy via NYTimes.com: this story is fucking fascinating to me Let’s Play Palin VP Bingo! via gedblog (via a DF tweet) Flickr: Genres A pool for iTunes "genre" art. To go along with that whole "Genius" feature and […]
Godel, Escher, Bach by Hofstadter 1 Cryptonomicon by Stephenson 2 Cold War: An Illustrated History, 1945-1991 by Isaacs and Downing The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown) by Time-Life Orbiter by Ellis (illustrated by Foran with Stewart) How to Get Happily Published by Appelbaum The New Space Opera edited by Dozois and Straham (Original at Flickr.) Yes, still reading […]
Post-apocalyptic. Landscape is overrun with forests; thick, chocking forests. What left of us all fit on a train. We live on this train. We must keep it moving or else perish. No one knows what lives out there in those woods. We rarely stop; we cannot afford to stop. When we do stop it is […]
The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time Neal Stephenson reads from Anathem via mefogus Neal Stephenson and the 10,000-Year Clock via mefogus 10 Essential Principles of the Javascript Masters Scenes from India fascinating pictures
I’m sitting in an IT office surrounded by computers and monitors and peripherals &c. when she comes in. She looks like an extra The Maltese Falcon, all skirtsuit, scarf, and sweater. The only thing that she is missing is the hat. She starts rifling through the items in the office, building a computer more/less right […]
Dirty Secret Of The Bailout: Thirty-Two Words That None Dare Utter Section 8 alone should be enough reason to throw Paulson out on his ass; this is totally unacceptable. CALL YOUR SENATORS!! WordPress Archive that *works*: StepxStep Guide and Plugins Using jQuery for Background Image Animations this is just plain sick Hiding in Plain Sight […]
How We Became the United States of France at Time.com (via Beyond the Beyond): You just know the Frogs have only increased their disdain for us, if that is indeed possible. And why shouldn't they? The average American is working two and half jobs, gets two weeks off, and has all the employment security of […]
A. and I return to our car, going home from a dinner party. We get into the car. I’m driving. The car is parallel parked and the street is slick and a light rain is coming down. I maneuver the car out of its space but the car gets stuck in reverse. I try to […]
I’m golfing with D.J., D.P., and my brother J. The country club is crowded. But it’s also indoors. The terrain is varied as one would expect: little hills, sand traps, scrubby woods, water hazards. But this whole course is under the kind of ceiling that you’d find at a grocery store or a warehouse. We […]