Link dump for Friday, 2008/10/24 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.
Links:
- 2.3 Writing Genre Fiction (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Western) (misc.writing Recommended Reading List) (Writing,Genre,HowTo,Book,List,SF,Fantasy,Horror,Mystery)
- 25 Tweaks for Your Firefox Status Bar | Firefox Facts (Firefox,PlugIn,Recommendation,List)
- 9 Foreign Rip-Offs Cooler Than The Hollywood Originals | Cracked.com (Hmmm,SuperHero,Movie,List,Culture,Humor,Video)
- Agents & Editors: A Q&A With Chuck Adams | Poets & Writers (Agent,Editor,Publishing,Interview)
- Anathem Wiki (Wiki,SF)
- Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery – BOBI Announces Advance on Heart Cell Research (Watch,Tech,MedTech)
- Best Young Adult SF | Science Fiction Fans | LibraryThing (SF,YA,YoungAdult,Reading,Recommendation,Forum,List)
- BitTorrent: BtReAnnounceR Brings Dead Torrents Back to Life (BitTorrent,Torrent,LifeHacker)
- Bohemian Word Werks – Pegged it (Quote,Reading,Movie,LiveJournal)
- Bowing to the Future: Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything (PhysicsTheory,Video,Lecture)
- Chaotic Shiny – RPG-Related Generators (Generator,WorldBuilding,Writing,List,Game.RPG)
- Chemical & Engineering News: Cover Story – Superconductivity Rekindles (Watch,Tech,Chemistry,MaterialScience,Superconductivity)
- Chuk-Munn Lee of Sun Microsystems Troubleshoots Java SE 6 Deployment (Java,Reference,Memory,Debugging,JVM,TroubleShooting,Performance,SoftwareDevelopment)
- Coffee: Brew Better Coffee in Your Hotel and at Home (Coffee,LifeHacker,Travel)
- Copenhagen Suborbitals shooting for human in space – Boing Boing (Hmmm,Space,NearEarth,Transportation)
- Dark Roasted Blend: Castles That Will Inspire and Haunt You (Photo,Image,Castle,Architecture,Landscape,List)
- Date Formatting and Parsing for Humans in Java with HumanTime (Java,Date,Time,Library)
- English Names Dictionary en_US | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions (PlugIn,English,Dictionary,Names,OpenOffice)
- Eric Hirshberg: Republicans Voting for Obama: In Their Own Words (Watch,Politics,USA,2008,Video)
- FictionThatMatters.org » How to Write a Science Fiction Story in 7 Easy Steps (SF,Writing,HowTo)
- Forward | MetaFilter (Game,Flash,War,MetaFilter)
- Free PDF to Word Doc Converter! Just plain and simple pdf conversion software. (PDF,Doc,Converter,FreeWare,Ms.Word,Utility,Tool)
- Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything | Video on TED.com (PhysicsTheory,Video,Lecture)
- Geobiologists Discover Unique ‘Magnetic Death Star’ Fossil (Archeology,Mystery,Biology,GlobalWarming,Evolution,PreHistory,55MYAgo)
- Group bragging betrays insecurity, study shows (Social,Group,Behavior,Study,Results)
- GTD-Free: a simple yet powerful GTD-based task manager – review & download link | freewaregenius.com (GTD,Productivity,FreeWare,Review,Tool)
- How Do You Deal With Distractions? at SF Novelists (Writing)
- How Government Stoked the Mania – WSJ.com (Watch,Economics,Government,Bailout,2008,USA,Politics)
- HOWTO read the secret forensic dots in your laser-printer output – Boing Boing (Security,Hardware,Printer,Privacy,Video,HowTo,BoingBoing)
- In the Ghetto | The Crotchety Old Fan (SF,Genre,Rant,Mainstream)
- Interview: Richard K. Morgan on the Failures of Capitalism and the Success of Science Fiction (SF,Author,Interview,Writing,Io9)
- JavaScript Simulation of Conway’s Game of Life (JavaScript)
- Lamptime is Over – Respecting the characters (Writing,Character)
- Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates – Who’s the Windbag? (Politics,USA,Visualization,Language,Analysis,Words,Linguistics)
- Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates – Who’s the Windbag? (Analysis,Word,Words,Politics,USA,2008)
- LSP – Liskov Substitution Principle – To Be Or Not To Be (Java,Java.Inheritance,ObjectOriented,Design,Pattern)
- Main Page – Deletionpedia (Wiki,Wikipedia,Reference,Alternative,Rejected,Censorship)
- Military-Grade Moe-Anthropomorphism | MetaFilter (Hmmm,MetaFilter)
- Modeling Falling and Skydiving (Physics,SkyDive,Reference,Model)
- Musings and Marketeerings: Adapt or Die? SF and New Media (SF,Progress,Publishing,Reading,Writing)
- Must Watch: Watchmen Footage from the Scream Awards! « FirstShowing.net (Watchmen,Movie,Movie.Trailer,Trailer)
- NameMapper: USA Baby Name Map, Most Popular Baby Names by State | The Baby Name Wizard (Name,Map,USA,Visualization,Flash,Geography)
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Going from Small Presses to Big Publishers (Writing,Publishing,Agent,Advice)
- Next Big Future: Rowan University Study of Blacklight Power (Watch,Tech,Power,Power.Generation)
- Oached Pish – Payoffs (Writing)
- Oached Pish – Payoffs and Reader Expectation (Writing)
- Obsidian Wings: E. O. Wilson On Biology And Morality (Biology,Morality,Philosophy)
- Organize Status Bar :: Firefox Add-ons (Firefox,PlugIn)
- Physicists find a new state of matter in a ‘transistor’ (Watch,Tech,Physics,Quantum,Electronics)
- Print2PDF 8.0 (PDF,Printer,Tool,Utility,Ms.Windows,FreeWare)
- properJavaRDP (OpenSource,Java,RemoteDesktop,Ms.Windows)
- Pub Rants: P&W’s Interview With Editor Chuck Adams, Algonquin (Agent,Link,Writing,Publishing,Interview)
- Real-life tech-tree | Ask Metafilter (Tech,Ask,MetaFilter,Game.Civilization)
- Rhino + JavaScript + Swing, Look Ma No Java – Kyle Cordes (Java,JavaScript,Java.Rhino,GUI,Java.Swing)
- Robotic ants building homes on Mars? (Watch,Tech,Robot,Mars,Exploration,Colonization,Video)
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Rare and Beautiful Fantasy Gems by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner (SF,Review)
- SciencePunk » Five awesome substances that never existed (Interesting,History,Hoax,Debunk)
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #12: Good Critique, Bad Critique. (Writing,Critique,LiveJournal)
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #13: Reading Outside the Box. (Reading,Writing,LiveJournal)
- Serendipitous observations reveal rare event in life of distant quasar (Astronomy,AstroPhysics)
- SF Signal: Fear and Self Loathing in Science Fiction (SF,StealthSF,Media,Genre,Rant)
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: The Future of Written Science Fiction (SF,Genre,Reading,MindMeld)
- ShowIP :: Firefox Add-ons (Firefox,PlugIn)
- Slashdot | Number of ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy Is 37,964 (DrakesEquation,DrakeEquation,FermisParadox)
- somehedgehog: Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly (Game.RPG,Parody,Politics,USA,Humor,LiveJournal,2008)
- Speed of a Skydiver (Terminal Velocity) (Physics,Velocity,SkyDive,Reference)
- Split Browser: split your Firefox window into multiple browsers – review & download link | freewaregenius.com (Firefox,PlugIn,FreeWare,Review)
- Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web (USA,Government,Stats,Reference,Link,List)
- Sun PDF Import Extension [Beta] | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions (OpenOffice,PlugIn,PDF,Editor,Import)
- TalkToYoUniverse (Writing,SF,Blog)
- TalkToYoUniverse: Don’t make them all the same (Writing,Character)
- Technology Review: The Alien Novelist (SF,Author)
- The Antick Musings of G.B.H. Hornswoggler, Gent.: On Being Skipped (Publishing)
- The Fix – Short Fiction Review (Writing,SF,Review,ShortStory)
- The Origins of the ‘Western’ – The Western Genre (Western,Genre,History,Movie,Film)
- The right blames the credit crisis on poor minority homeowners. This is not merely offensive, but entirely wrong. – By Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine (Watch,Economics,Bailout,USA,Politics,Culture)
- The Things He Carried – The Atlantic (November 2008) (USA,Politics,Government,Security,Freedom,Privacy,Terrorism,Travel)
- Tiny Watcher: detect and reverse unwanted changes to your system – review & download link | freewaregenius.com (Utility,Monitor,FreeWare,Review)
- Totally Space Opera « Torque Control (SF,SpaceOpera)
- True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through photoshopped covers – Boing Boing (Fantasy,Humor,Image,MashUp,Cover,Book,BoingBoing)
- University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer (Watch,Tech,MedTech,Health,Diet,Longevity,MakesMeSmile)
- Using Reset Stylesheets – Webmonkey (CSS,Technique)
- Walker of Worlds: Fictional Super Setting? (Writing,Setting)
- Waste From Gut Bacteria Helps Host Control Weight, Researchers Report (Watch,MedTech,Health,Weight)
- Weird dino rewrites the book on birds (Archeology,Dinosaur,Evolution,Bird)
- Weird Tales Download a complete issue, free! (Magazine,2008,Free,Fantasy,Horror,SF)
- WordPress › Include It « WordPress Plugins (WordPress,PHP,PlugIn)
- WordPress › Recent Posts « WordPress Plugins (WordPress,Category,PlugIn)
- World Wide Words (Writing,Blog,Reference,History,Language,English,British,Etymology,Grammar,Slang,Linguistics,Word)
- writerjenn – Revision letter (Writing,Editing,Publishing)
- writing fantasy « the m john harrison blog (Writing,Fantasy,Literature,Criticism)
Tagged Author
- Interview: Richard K. Morgan on the Failures of Capitalism and the Success of Science Fiction
- Technology Review: The Alien Novelist
Tagged Criticism
Tagged Critique
Tagged Fantasy
- 2.3 Writing Genre Fiction (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Western) (misc.writing Recommended Reading List)
- True nature of science fiction and fantasy books revealed through photoshopped covers – Boing Boing
- Weird Tales Download a complete issue, free!
- writing fantasy « the m john harrison blog
Tagged FermisParadox
Tagged FreeWare
- Free PDF to Word Doc Converter! Just plain and simple pdf conversion software.
- GTD-Free: a simple yet powerful GTD-based task manager – review & download link | freewaregenius.com
- Print2PDF 8.0
- Split Browser: split your Firefox window into multiple browsers – review & download link | freewaregenius.com
- Tiny Watcher: detect and reverse unwanted changes to your system – review & download link | freewaregenius.com
Tagged Game.RPG
- Chaotic Shiny – RPG-Related Generators
- somehedgehog: Adventuring Party Politics: The Campaign is Getting Ugly
Tagged Generator
Tagged Genre
- 2.3 Writing Genre Fiction (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Western) (misc.writing Recommended Reading List)
- In the Ghetto | The Crotchety Old Fan
- SF Signal: Fear and Self Loathing in Science Fiction
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: The Future of Written Science Fiction
- The Origins of the ‘Western’ – The Western Genre
Tagged Movie
- 9 Foreign Rip-Offs Cooler Than The Hollywood Originals | Cracked.com
- Bohemian Word Werks – Pegged it
- Must Watch: Watchmen Footage from the Scream Awards! « FirstShowing.net
- The Origins of the ‘Western’ – The Western Genre
Tagged OpenSource
Tagged Reading
- Best Young Adult SF | Science Fiction Fans | LibraryThing
- Bohemian Word Werks – Pegged it
- Musings and Marketeerings: Adapt or Die? SF and New Media
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #13: Reading Outside the Box.
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: The Future of Written Science Fiction
Tagged SF
- 2.3 Writing Genre Fiction (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Western) (misc.writing Recommended Reading List)
- Anathem Wiki
- Best Young Adult SF | Science Fiction Fans | LibraryThing
- FictionThatMatters.org » How to Write a Science Fiction Story in 7 Easy Steps
- In the Ghetto | The Crotchety Old Fan
- Interview: Richard K. Morgan on the Failures of Capitalism and the Success of Science Fiction
- Musings and Marketeerings: Adapt or Die? SF and New Media
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Experience: Rare and Beautiful Fantasy Gems by C. L. Moore and Henry Kuttner
- SF Signal: Fear and Self Loathing in Science Fiction
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: The Future of Written Science Fiction
- TalkToYoUniverse
- Technology Review: The Alien Novelist
- The Fix – Short Fiction Review
- Totally Space Opera « Torque Control
- Weird Tales Download a complete issue, free!
Tagged SpaceOpera
Tagged Tech+Watch
- Bernard O’Brien Institute of Microsurgery – BOBI Announces Advance on Heart Cell Research
- Chemical & Engineering News: Cover Story – Superconductivity Rekindles
- Next Big Future: Rowan University Study of Blacklight Power
- Physicists find a new state of matter in a ‘transistor’
- Robotic ants building homes on Mars?
- University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer
Tagged Video
- 9 Foreign Rip-Offs Cooler Than The Hollywood Originals | Cracked.com
- Bowing to the Future: Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything
- Eric Hirshberg: Republicans Voting for Obama: In Their Own Words
- Garrett Lisi on his theory of everything | Video on TED.com
- HOWTO read the secret forensic dots in your laser-printer output – Boing Boing
- Robotic ants building homes on Mars?
Tagged WorldBuilding
Tagged Writing
- 2.3 Writing Genre Fiction (SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery/Western) (misc.writing Recommended Reading List)
- Chaotic Shiny – RPG-Related Generators
- FictionThatMatters.org » How to Write a Science Fiction Story in 7 Easy Steps
- How Do You Deal With Distractions? at SF Novelists
- Interview: Richard K. Morgan on the Failures of Capitalism and the Success of Science Fiction
- Lamptime is Over – Respecting the characters
- Musings and Marketeerings: Adapt or Die? SF and New Media
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Going from Small Presses to Big Publishers
- Oached Pish – Payoffs
- Oached Pish – Payoffs and Reader Expectation
- Pub Rants: P&W’s Interview With Editor Chuck Adams, Algonquin
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #12: Good Critique, Bad Critique.
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #13: Reading Outside the Box.
- TalkToYoUniverse
- TalkToYoUniverse: Don’t make them all the same
- The Fix – Short Fiction Review
- Walker of Worlds: Fictional Super Setting?
- World Wide Words
- writerjenn – Revision letter
- writing fantasy « the m john harrison blog
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