Link dump for Fri. 01/30/2009 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.Links:
- 50 Websites that make amazing use of javascript | Kriesi.at – new media design (JavaScript,AJAX,WebSite)
- A Place for Strangers and Beggars – The Seven Sentence Story (Writing,Plot,Exercise,LiveJournal)
- A Place for Strangers and Beggars – Why Grammar and What Makes Writing Good? (Writing,Grammar,LiveJournal)
- Adventures in Writing – William Safire’s Rules for Writers: (Writing,Rule,List,LiveJournal)
- An Oral History of the Bush White House | vanityfair.com (USA,Politics,History)
- Angry Bear: Background on “fresh water” and “salt water” macroeconomics (USA,Economics,Policy)
- Authorial, agently and personal ramblings – Genres and Subgenres and Memes, Oh My! (Genre,Meme,Definition,List,LiveJournal,Fantasy,Horror,SF,Mystery,Romance)
- Authorial, agently and personal ramblings – Short story vs. novel writing (Writing,Novel,ShortStory,Comparison,LiveJournal)
- Baby Name Brainstorm (Visualization,Name)
- Bad code smells – A Taxonomy (Reference,SoftwareDevelopment,Taxonomy,AntiPattern,Programming)
- BLDGBLOG: Planet Harddrive (Hmmm,Tech,Earth,HardDrive,SF)
- Buzz, Balls & Hype : THE DOCTOR IS IN (Writing)
- Chart Porn: Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story (Writing,SF,FlowChart,HowTo,Visualization,Humor,TV,StarTrek)
- Clean Code vs. Implementation Patterns | Xebia Blog (Code,Refactoring,Book,Comparison,SoftwareDevelopment)
- David Barnett: Science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name | Books | guardian.co.uk (Writing,SF,Culture,Fiction,Literature,Genre)
- Dealhacker: Grab a 1TB Hard Drive for $99 (HardDrive,LifeHacker)
- Detecting an Internet connection with Javascript – Java Beans dot Asia (JavaScript)
- Downloads: Four Experimental Extensions to Power Up Firefox (Firefox,PlugIn,LifeHacker)
- ErrorZilla Plus :: Firefox Add-ons (Firefox,PlugIn,Fritz.Use)
- Extension:FlaggedRevs – MediaWiki (MediaWiki,Extension,PlugIn)
- FireScope (Firefox,PlugIn,HTML,CSS,Reference)
- FlaggedRevs – Meta (MediaWiki,Extension,PlugIn)
- Future Hi: Glossary (Futurism,Singularity,Glossary)
- Future Watch: AI comes of age (AI,Watch,Tech)
- Google unveils tools that can show if your ISP is giving you what you paid for (Google,ISP)
- Helium rains inside Jovian planets (Physics,Weather,Jovian)
- Holographic discs set to smash storage records – tech – 22 January 2009 – New Scientist (Watch,Tech,Storage,Hardware,Holographic)
- Home – codesamples – wikis.sun.com (Java,Wiki,Code,Snippet,Example)
- How low can you go? : Nature News (Watch,Tech,Quantum,Data,Data.Storage)
- How Thor Power Hammered Publishing (Writing,Publishing,Economics,Inventory,Tax,USA)
- Intervju med David Marusek (Writing,SF,Author,Advice,Interview)
- Jason Pinter’s ‘The Man in Black’ (Publishing)
- Lisa Gold: Research Maven (Writing,Blog,Reference,Research)
- List of confidence tricks – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Con,Crime,Fraud,Reference,Wikipedia)
- Lit-Fic : the genre that dare not speak its name ? . . . Damien G. Walter . . . (SF,Literature,Genre)
- Low-cost LEDs to slash household electric bills (Watch,Tech,MaterialScience,Fabrication,LED)
- M-BRANE SF (SF,Blog,Free,Ezine,Market)
- Media Center: Cut the Cable For Good with Boxee and Apple TV (HowTo,Install,Video,TV,MediaCenter,Streaming,OpenSource,HardWare,LifeHacker)
- Media Matters – Right on cue, the White House press awakens from its Bush slumber (Watch,MSM,USA,Politics)
- MEGASTRUCTURE-RELOADED: SUPERSTUDIO (MegaStructure,Architecture,Design)
- Mystery Ink: Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories (Writing,Mystery,Rule,List)
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Query Critiques (Writing,Query,Letter,QueryLetter)
- Natural selection is not the only process that drives evolution (Evolution)
- New Data Suggests We Don?t Live in a Void, and Supports Dark Energy (Cosmology,Astronomy)
- Next Big Future: Geoengineering Proposals Analyzed and Compared for Cooling Potential (Watch,Tech,Engineering,ClimateChange,GlobalWarming)
- Next Big Future: University of Texas at Austin Proposes Compact Tokomak Fusion/Fission Hybrid to Burn Nuclear Waste (Nuclear,Waste,Disposal,Power,Power.Generation,Watch,Tech)
- Obsidian Portal ? Campaigns ? Moleb (RPG,Game.RPG,Writing)
- P. G. Wodehouse interview – The Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 60 (Writing,Wodehouse,Interview)
- PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy (Philosophy,Research,Collaboration,Archive,Academic,Journal)
- Reasonably Unscrewed-Up Character ? Mary Sue ? Whatever (Writing,SF,Character,Criticism,Review)
- Regular sprints boost metabolism (Health,Exercise)
- Sanford C. Goldberg – Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification – Reviewed by Jonathan E. Adler, Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center – Philosophical Reviews – University of Notre Dame (Philosophy,Epistemology,Book,Review)
- Science News / A Prayer For Archimedes (History,Greek,Math,Calculus)
- Scientists Rank Global Cooling Hacks | Wired Science from Wired.com (ClimateChange,GlobalWarming,Engineering,Hack,Environment)
- Scifi Art: Pulp SF Book Covers That Channel Pure Id (SF,Pulp,Retro,Art,Book,Cover)
- Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic (Politics,Science,Economics,Futurism,Environment,BruceSterling)
- SF and Nonsense: Alien aliens (from alien places) (SF,Alien,List)
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction’s & Fantasy’s Best Writers (Writing,SF,Advice,MindMeld)
- Star lifting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (SF,Tech,Futurism)
- Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury – washingtonpost.com (Food,Warning,USA)
- Ten Rules for Mystery Writing (Writing,Mystery,Rule,List)
- Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands – tech – 26 January 2009 – New Scientist (Watch,Tech,SF,Futurism)
- THE ABSENT RIVAL ? Continental Drift (Activism,Capitalism,Globalization,Psychology,Essay)
- The Blood-Red Pencil: Ask the Editor – The Dreaded Semicolon (QandA,Writing,Grammar,Editing,Punctuation)
- The Blood-Red Pencil: What’s Your Story About? (Writing)
- The Chronicle: 4/2/2004: A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics (Politics,Philosophy,Fascism)
- The Difficulties of Writing a Novel (in a Zeppelin Fortress) by Jens Rushing – Everyday Weirdness (January 28th 2009) (SF,Story,Writing,Zeppelin,Hmmm)
- The Diogenes Club: The Ten Commandments of Msgr. Ronald A. Knox (Writing,Mystery,Rule,List)
- The Latest Teacup Tempest by Hal Duncan (SF,Criticism,WorldBuilding,Definition,Writing)
- The Penguin Blog: How to Sell Books in a Recession (Publishing,Business)
- The Reading Experience: Criteria for Literary Value (Reading,Criticism)
- The World in the Satin Bag: Steampunk Reading List? (SF,SteamPunk,Reading,List)
- Think Progress ? Torture Lover John Yoo Excoriates Obama For Banning Torture (Watch,Politics,USA,Torture)
- Truck-mounted laser shoots down spy drone – tech – 27 January 2009 – New Scientist (Watch,Tech,MilTech,Military,Laser)
- Understand – a novelette by Ted Chiang (SF,Novelette,ShortStory)
- Vertor: a site for ?verified? torrents | freewaregenius.com (Torrent,BitTorrent,Review)
- What you need to know about off-site book sales ? The Book Publicity Blog (Publishing)
- What’s going on in Bush’s mind here? – Boing Boing (Watch,Politics,USA,Event,Event.2009.01.20,BoingBoing)
- Why you can’t find a library book in your search engine | Technology | The Guardian (Library,Database,Search,Book)
- Wikipedia:Flagged revisions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (MediaWiki,Extension,PlugIn)
- Word Wise: One (Isn’t) the Loneliest Number (Writing,Reference,English,Word)
Tagged AI
Tagged Art
Tagged Author
Tagged Book+Review
Tagged Criticism
- Reasonably Unscrewed-Up Character ? Mary Sue ? Whatever
- The Latest Teacup Tempest by Hal Duncan
- The Reading Experience: Criteria for Literary Value
Tagged Fantasy
Tagged Firefox
- Downloads: Four Experimental Extensions to Power Up Firefox
- ErrorZilla Plus :: Firefox Add-ons
- FireScope
Tagged Futurism
- Future Hi: Glossary
- Seed: 2009 Will Be a Year of Panic
- Star lifting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands – tech – 26 January 2009 – New Scientist
Tagged Game.RPG
Tagged Genre
- Authorial, agently and personal ramblings – Genres and Subgenres and Memes, Oh My!
- David Barnett: Science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Lit-Fic : the genre that dare not speak its name ? . . . Damien G. Walter . . .
Tagged OpenSource
Tagged Philosophy
- PhilPapers: Online research in philosophy
- Sanford C. Goldberg – Anti-Individualism: Mind and Language, Knowledge and Justification – Reviewed by Jonathan E. Adler, Brooklyn College/CUNY Graduate Center – Philosophical Reviews – University of Notre Dame
- The Chronicle: 4/2/2004: A Fascist Philosopher Helps Us Understand Contemporary Politics
Tagged Publishing
- How Thor Power Hammered Publishing
- Jason Pinter’s ‘The Man in Black’
- The Penguin Blog: How to Sell Books in a Recession
- What you need to know about off-site book sales ? The Book Publicity Blog
Tagged Reading
- The Reading Experience: Criteria for Literary Value
- The World in the Satin Bag: Steampunk Reading List?
Tagged SF
- Authorial, agently and personal ramblings – Genres and Subgenres and Memes, Oh My!
- BLDGBLOG: Planet Harddrive
- Chart Porn: Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story
- David Barnett: Science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Intervju med David Marusek
- Lit-Fic : the genre that dare not speak its name ? . . . Damien G. Walter . . .
- M-BRANE SF
- Reasonably Unscrewed-Up Character ? Mary Sue ? Whatever
- Scifi Art: Pulp SF Book Covers That Channel Pure Id
- SF and Nonsense: Alien aliens (from alien places)
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction’s & Fantasy’s Best Writers
- Star lifting – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands – tech – 26 January 2009 – New Scientist
- The Difficulties of Writing a Novel (in a Zeppelin Fortress) by Jens Rushing – Everyday Weirdness (January 28th 2009)
- The Latest Teacup Tempest by Hal Duncan
- The World in the Satin Bag: Steampunk Reading List?
- Understand – a novelette by Ted Chiang
Tagged Tech+Watch
- Future Watch: AI comes of age
- Holographic discs set to smash storage records – tech – 22 January 2009 – New Scientist
- How low can you go? : Nature News
- Low-cost LEDs to slash household electric bills
- Next Big Future: Geoengineering Proposals Analyzed and Compared for Cooling Potential
- Next Big Future: University of Texas at Austin Proposes Compact Tokomak Fusion/Fission Hybrid to Burn Nuclear Waste
- Ten sci-fi devices that could soon be in your hands – tech – 26 January 2009 – New Scientist
- Truck-mounted laser shoots down spy drone – tech – 27 January 2009 – New Scientist
Tagged TV
- Chart Porn: Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story
- Media Center: Cut the Cable For Good with Boxee and Apple TV
Tagged Video
Tagged WorldBuilding
Tagged Writing
- A Place for Strangers and Beggars – The Seven Sentence Story
- A Place for Strangers and Beggars – Why Grammar and What Makes Writing Good?
- Adventures in Writing – William Safire’s Rules for Writers:
- Authorial, agently and personal ramblings – Short story vs. novel writing
- Buzz, Balls & Hype : THE DOCTOR IS IN
- Chart Porn: Create Your Own Original Star Trek Story
- David Barnett: Science fiction is the genre that dare not speak its name | Books | guardian.co.uk
- How Thor Power Hammered Publishing
- Intervju med David Marusek
- Lisa Gold: Research Maven
- Mystery Ink: Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Query Critiques
- Obsidian Portal ? Campaigns ? Moleb
- P. G. Wodehouse interview – The Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 60
- Reasonably Unscrewed-Up Character ? Mary Sue ? Whatever
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: Shrewd Writing Advice From Some of Science Fiction’s & Fantasy’s Best Writers
- Ten Rules for Mystery Writing
- The Blood-Red Pencil: Ask the Editor – The Dreaded Semicolon
- The Blood-Red Pencil: What’s Your Story About?
- The Difficulties of Writing a Novel (in a Zeppelin Fortress) by Jens Rushing – Everyday Weirdness (January 28th 2009)
- The Diogenes Club: The Ten Commandments of Msgr. Ronald A. Knox
- The Latest Teacup Tempest by Hal Duncan
- Word Wise: One (Isn’t) the Loneliest Number
Tagged Zeppelin
Word Counts - Today: 0 | January: 0 | 2009: 0
