Link lists, round-ups, recaps, Delicious.com dumps, and other sometimes somewhat salacious sundry sediments and sentiments.
NameTrends.net via Information Aesthetics :: “Baby Name Trends” (for A.) (tags: baby graph visualization fun) price of vampire power – data visualization & visual design at information aesthetics (tags: energy green money visualization video todo) PLOTS WITH GUNS via JM: “a noir site, for your reading/tonal reference needs” (NOIR/TRANGRESSIVE/NONSENSE) (tags: magazine literature fiction research noir […]
Opening Sentences: Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction via io9 (via B^2) :: a nice round-up, indeed (tags: blog literature scifi writing)
Too Weird for The Wire by Kevin Carey (Washington Monthly) :: holy WTF!? (tags: history law politics research essay) I’m Sorry, I Don’t Know, I Can’t via ThinkSimpleNow.com (tags: language psychology social essay todo)
Rule for Making Lowball Real Estate Offers via Free Money Finance: …if I’m not embarrassed by the offer, I bid too much. (tags: money)
Tor.com Science fiction and fantasy / Weblog, short fiction, art, and discussion (tags: art blog fantasy literature scifi publishing writing todo) All Wet? Astronomers Claim Discovery of Earth-like Planet via Scientific American (via /.) (tags: news science space astronomy research) Graphic Of The Day: Top-Ten Per Capita (Greenest) US States For Carbon Emissions via TreeHugger […]
Aperture Users Network (tags: Aperture photography)
Fantasy and Science Fiction (tags: fiction literature magazine writing publishing) John Joseph Adams (tags: scifi publishing)
Edge 250 via B²: read for the Dyson short (tags: essay fiction google literature science scifi writing research todo) All aboard the nuclear power superjet. Just don’t ask about the landing strip via The Guardian (via /.) (tags: energy environment essay green politics science research todo)
Unthinkable Futures via B^2 (tags: blog fiction future research scifi writing todo) Dystopias via John Joseph Adams (via Ecstatic Days) (tags: fiction scifi literature writing research dystopia todo) Vermont Brewers Festival via Seven Days (tags: beer Vermont todo) Ballardcraft: Ballard/Lovecraft (tags: blog Ballard Lovecraft literature essay todo)
Revealing hidden assumptions in estimation via Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals) (via DF) (tags: customerservice software tech UI usability dev work essay) Preparing a Budget? Ten Tips for Making That Budget Successful via the simple dollar (tags: lifehacks money budget personal todo)