Link dump for Fri. 2010/01/22 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.Links:
- 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica – Free Online (Encyclopedia,Reference,History,1911)
- 20+ .htaccess Hacks Every Web Developer Should Know About | DevMoose (htaccess,HowTo,Snippet)
- 2010 AL30: Asteroid or Space Junk? : Discovery News (Astronomy,NearEarth,Asteroid)
- 4 Quick Sites That Let You Check if Links Are Safe (Web,Link,Internet,MalWare,Security)
- 6 free remote desktop sharing and screen sharing solutions (DeskTop,Share,RemoteDeskTop,Collaboration,Tool,FreeWare)
- A New Theory on Why the Sun Never Swallowed the Earth – TIME (SolarSystem,Formation,Theory)
- AAAWG discusses character voice – FritzWiki (Writing,Character,Voice,AAAWG,FritzWiki,Fritz)
- Aerobic exercise grows brain cells (Exercise,Brain,Health)
- Against a Dark Background: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article (SF,SciFi,IanBanks,SpaceOpera,Review,Discussion)
- Ajaxian ? Jison: Build parsers in JavaScript (JavaScript,Parser,Generator,Generator.Parser)
- Amazon hikes Kindle royalties to 70%, with a catch (Watch,Amazon,Kindle,Epublishing,Publishing)
- Amazon.com: Writer’s Digest Handbook of Short Story Writing (Vol 1) (9780898790498): Dickson, Smythe: Books (ShortStory,Writing,Book,Amazon)
- Ancient Black Holes Steered The Formation Of The Early Universe – Space – io9 (BlackHole,Cosmology,Physics,io9)
- anic – Project Hosting on Google Code (Programming,Language.Programming,OpenSource,Parallel)
- Antinori?s Ringworld Animations ? File 770 (MegaStructure,Video,Animation,Link,SF)
- Apache Tika – Apache Tika (JakartaApache,JakartaApache.Lucene,Lucene,OpenSource,Library)
- Books & Authors ? How Do You Define ?Science Fiction? and ?Fantasy?? (SF,Fantasy,Definition)
- Books on Writing – An Annotated List (Writing,Book,List)
- CES 2010: Open Source 3-D Printer Turns Designs Into Objects – Video – Wired (OpenSource,Fabber,Fabrication,3D,Printer,Watch,Tech,Video)
- CES 2010: The interactive projector that turns any surface into a Minority Report-style touch screen | Mail Online (UI,Computer,Hardware,Interface,Keyboard,Projector)
- Christopher Palmer- Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks (SF,SciFi,Criticism,SpaceOpera,IainBanks)
- Classical and statistical mechanics of celestial scale spinning strings: Rotating space elevators (Physics,Engineering,MegaStructure,Design,NearEarth)
- Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net (Watch,Facebook,Privacy,Interview,Security)
- CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM ? Tin House Books Blog (Writing,SF,SciFi,Culture,Tech)
- CrossLoop – Affordable Online Computer Help – Technical Support Services (DeskTop,Share,RemoteDeskTop,Collaboration,Tool)
- Crystal mountains speak of moon’s molten past – space – 11 January 2010 – New Scientist (Moon,Astronomy,Earth)
- Culture Shock – Iain M Banks (SF,TheCulture,IainBanks,SciFi)
- Desktop sharing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (DeskTop,Share,RemoteDeskTop,Collaboration,Tool,Wikipedia,Comparison)
- E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD Just Killed It – Notebooks – Gizmodo (Watch,Tech,Display)
- ENGLISH SENTENCES WITHOUT OVERT GRAMMATICAL SUBJECTS (Grammar,English)
- Extension:EasyTimeline – MediaWiki (MediaWiki,Graphics,Timeline,Extension,PlugIn,Wiki,Wikipedia)
- France warns against Internet Explorer use – Telegraph (Watch,Microsoft,Security)
- From Anne Frank to Stephenie Meyer: The Slush Pile – WSJ.com (Publishing,Agent,SlushPile)
- German Government: Stop Using Internet Explorer (Watch,Microsoft,Security)
- Google Groups Versus Yahoo Groups – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com (Yahoo,Google,Comparison)
- Grasping for the Wind?s Best Reads of 2009 ? Grasping for the Wind (Book,Review,List,Best,2009,SF,SciFi,Fantasy)
- Help! I Need a Publisher!: MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS (Publishing,Submission)
- Help! I Need a Publisher!: WHERE DOES A STORY BEGIN?? (Writing,Start)
- Hooks that snag great book deals (Writing,Hook,Query,Letter,Letter.Query)
- How can I write better short stories (science fiction) | Ask MetaFilter (SF,SciFi,Writing,ShortStory,HowTo,Advice,QandA,MetaFilter,MetaFilter.Ask)
- How Publishing Really Works: How I Got Published (Part II): Nicola Morgan (Writing,Publishing)
- How to make a liquid invisibility cloak – tech – 08 January 2010 – New Scientist (Watch,Tech,NanoTech,Optics)
- How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell – WSJ.com (Writing,HowTo,Book,Author,WSJ)
- http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/the-shades-of-milk-and-honey-style-sheet/ (Writing,CopyEdit)
- Iain Banks: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article (SF,Author,IainBanks,SciFi)
- In praise of trilogies | Books | guardian.co.uk (Trilogy,Series,YoungAdult,Writing,Reading)
- Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Statistics to torture yourself with in 2010 (Writing,Submission,Rejection,Reason,List)
- jarjar – Project Hosting on Google Code (Java,OpenSource,Tool,Deployment,Java.JAR)
- Jim C. Hines ? In Defense of Criticism (Writing,Criticism,Reading)
- johncwright: Manifesto of the Cornucopians — a coda about Space Colonization (SpaceColonization,LiveJournal)
- Killing Your Editors — BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG (Writing,Editor,Employment,History)
- LIUS (Lucene Index Update and Search) | Get LIUS (Lucene Index Update and Search) at SourceForge.net (JakartaApache,JakartaApache.Lucene,Lucene,OpenOffice,OpenSource,SourceForge)
- LogMeIn (DeskTop,Share,RemoteDeskTop,Collaboration,Tool,FreeWare)
- Louise Marley – Tips to Avoid the Slush Pile (Writing,Submission,SlushPile)
- M. C. Escher — Golden Age Comic Book Stories (Art,Artist,Escher)
- Magic, Sorcery, and Geomancy in Japanese History – Associated Content – associatedcontent.com (Japan,Japanese,History,Magic,Culture)
- Maxfield Parish — Golden Age Comic Book Stories (Art,Artist,MacfieldParish)
- My Name Is Inigo Montoya – The Lensman’s Children (SF,SciFi,RobertHeinlein,Heinlein)
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Revision Checklist (Writing,Revision,List,CheckList)
- Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi ? BSCreview (SF,SciFi,Writing,Criticism,Genre,Literature,Genre.Ghetto,Heinlein,RobertHeinlein)
- On Language – Semantic Time Travel – NYTimes.com (History,Langauge,English,Thesaurus,Language,Words)
- On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction by Stanislaw Lem || depauw.edu (SF,SciFi,Analysis,Essay,Criticism)
- Open Letter from a Writer to New Publishers (Publishing,Writing,Letter,Letter.Open)
- Opinion: let’s all go HBO (Writing,Publishing,Rejection)
- Oscar’s Multi-Monitor taskBar (FreeWare,Tool,Ms.Windows,Monitor,DeskTop)
- pdfvole: Home (PDF,Java,Debug,Debugging,Tool)
- PeteSearch: How to find user information from an email address (Email,Search,Privacy)
- Physicists Solve Difficult Classical Problem with One Quantum Bit (Quantum,Calculation,Physics)
- Power, Redesigned: Innovative Folding Power Plug Design | Gadgets, Science & Technology (Design,Clever)
- Quantum fluctuations are key in superconductors (Quantum,Superconductivity)
- Review: Firefox 3.6 RC gives new life to an old browser (Firefox,Review,2010)
- Science fiction: last bastion of the rational? ? It Doesn’t Have To Be Right? (SF,Genre,Science,Rationality)
- SF reading protocols by Jo Walton at Tor.com (SF,Reading,Protocol)
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: What’s the Best Story to Never Win a Hugo? (SF,Hugo,HugoAward,MindMeld)
- Show and Sell: The Secret to Apple’s Magic – Tablet – Gizmodo (Watch,Apple)
- ShowMyPC (DeskTop,Share,RemoteDeskTop,Collaboration,Tool,FreeWare,OpenSource)
- Some “Non-Avian Feathered Dinosaurs” May Have Been Birds : Discovery News (Dinosaur,Evolution,Bird)
- SPACE.com — Thank Your Dusty Stars For Our Existence (SolarSystem,Planet,Nova,Element,Oxygen)
- The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s – NYTimes.com (Tech,Culture,Kids,GenerationGap)
- The Culture: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article (TheCulture,IainBanks,SF,SciFi)
- The Death of Fiction? | Mother Jones (Publishing,Writing,Literature,Magazine)
- The Full Wiki (Wiki,Wikipedia,Map,MashUp)
- The Guild (Blog,Gaming,Video,Humor,Online,RPG)
- The Guild – Episode 1: Wake-Up Call || YouTube.com (RPG,Computer.Game,Online,Video,YouTube)
- The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words | Copyblogger (Writing,English,CopyWriting,Words,List,Grammar,Reference)
- The Jewel-Hinged Jaw: Samuel R. Delany – UPNE (Book,ToGet)
- The Lesson I Learned From George R. R. Martin – Suvudu – Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games (Writing,Process)
- the Literary Saloon at the complete review – 11 – 17 January 2010 Archive (Publishing,SlushPile)
- The pros and cons of writing a series – Jaine Fenn – Tales from the Garret (Writing,Series)
- The Second Act: Boost your productivity with Hemingway?s hack (Writing,Hack,Productivity,Process)
- Tool Tweet: Neo4j – An open-source graph database || www.vitruvi-mente.be (Graph,Database,Java,OpenSource)
- Top Ten Question Dutton Editors Ask Themselves ? Writing and Illustrating (Writing,Editor,Editor.LookingFor,Publishing)
- What Do People Think Science Fiction Is? | Republibot (SF,SciFi,Defintion,Survey,Results)
- What Wall Street Really Fears – Page 1 – The Daily Beast (Watch,WallStreet,USA,Banking)
- Wild crows reveal tool skills (Tool,Use,NonHuman)
- Writers Digest Books – books from this publisher (ISBNs begin with 978-0-89879) (Writing,Book,List)
- Writing better dialogue | Ask MetaFilter (Writing,Dialogue,MetaFilter,MetaFilter.Ask)
- Writing tools – Charlie’s Diary (Writing,Tool)
- You won’t find consciousness in the brain – opinion – 07 January 2010 – New Scientist (Consciousness,Mind,NeuroScience,Brain)
- Yuuguu (DeskTop,Share,RemoteDeskTop,Collaboration,Tool,FreeWare)
Tagged Art
Tagged Author
- How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell – WSJ.com
- Iain Banks: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
Tagged Book+Review
Tagged Criticism
- Christopher Palmer- Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks
- Jim C. Hines ? In Defense of Criticism
- Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi ? BSCreview
- On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction by Stanislaw Lem || depauw.edu
Tagged Fantasy
- Books & Authors ? How Do You Define ?Science Fiction? and ?Fantasy??
- Grasping for the Wind?s Best Reads of 2009 ? Grasping for the Wind
Tagged FreeWare
- 6 free remote desktop sharing and screen sharing solutions
- LogMeIn
- Oscar’s Multi-Monitor taskBar
- ShowMyPC
- Yuuguu
Tagged Firefox
Tagged Generator
Tagged Genre
- Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi ? BSCreview
- Science fiction: last bastion of the rational? ? It Doesn’t Have To Be Right?
Tagged Java
- jarjar – Project Hosting on Google Code
- pdfvole: Home
- Tool Tweet: Neo4j – An open-source graph database || www.vitruvi-mente.be
Tagged MediaWiki
Tagged OpenOffice
- LIUS (Lucene Index Update and Search) | Get LIUS (Lucene Index Update and Search) at SourceForge.net
Tagged OpenSource
- anic – Project Hosting on Google Code
- Apache Tika – Apache Tika
- CES 2010: Open Source 3-D Printer Turns Designs Into Objects – Video – Wired
- jarjar – Project Hosting on Google Code
- LIUS (Lucene Index Update and Search) | Get LIUS (Lucene Index Update and Search) at SourceForge.net
- ShowMyPC
- Tool Tweet: Neo4j – An open-source graph database || www.vitruvi-mente.be
Tagged Publishing
- Amazon hikes Kindle royalties to 70%, with a catch
- From Anne Frank to Stephenie Meyer: The Slush Pile – WSJ.com
- Help! I Need a Publisher!: MULTIPLE SUBMISSIONS
- How Publishing Really Works: How I Got Published (Part II): Nicola Morgan
- Open Letter from a Writer to New Publishers
- Opinion: let’s all go HBO
- The Death of Fiction? | Mother Jones
- the Literary Saloon at the complete review – 11 – 17 January 2010 Archive
- Top Ten Question Dutton Editors Ask Themselves ? Writing and Illustrating
Tagged Reading
- In praise of trilogies | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Jim C. Hines ? In Defense of Criticism
- SF reading protocols by Jo Walton at Tor.com
Tagged Review
- Against a Dark Background: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
- Grasping for the Wind?s Best Reads of 2009 ? Grasping for the Wind
- Review: Firefox 3.6 RC gives new life to an old browser
Tagged SF
- Against a Dark Background: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
- Antinori?s Ringworld Animations ? File 770
- Books & Authors ? How Do You Define ?Science Fiction? and ?Fantasy??
- Christopher Palmer- Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks
- CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM ? Tin House Books Blog
- Culture Shock – Iain M Banks
- Grasping for the Wind?s Best Reads of 2009 ? Grasping for the Wind
- How can I write better short stories (science fiction) | Ask MetaFilter
- Iain Banks: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
- My Name Is Inigo Montoya – The Lensman’s Children
- Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi ? BSCreview
- On the Structural Analysis of Science Fiction by Stanislaw Lem || depauw.edu
- Science fiction: last bastion of the rational? ? It Doesn’t Have To Be Right?
- SF reading protocols by Jo Walton at Tor.com
- SF Signal: MIND MELD: What’s the Best Story to Never Win a Hugo?
- The Culture: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
- What Do People Think Science Fiction Is? | Republibot
Tagged SpaceOpera
- Against a Dark Background: Facts, Discussion Forum, and Encyclopedia Article
- Christopher Palmer- Galactic Empires and the Contemporary Extravaganza: Dan Simmons and Iain M. Banks
Tagged Tech+Watch
- CES 2010: Open Source 3-D Printer Turns Designs Into Objects – Video – Wired
- E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD Just Killed It – Notebooks – Gizmodo
- How to make a liquid invisibility cloak – tech – 08 January 2010 – New Scientist
Tagged Video
- Antinori?s Ringworld Animations ? File 770
- CES 2010: Open Source 3-D Printer Turns Designs Into Objects – Video – Wired
- The Guild
- The Guild – Episode 1: Wake-Up Call || YouTube.com
Tagged Words
- On Language – Semantic Time Travel – NYTimes.com
- The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words | Copyblogger
Tagged Writing
- AAAWG discusses character voice – FritzWiki
- Amazon.com: Writer’s Digest Handbook of Short Story Writing (Vol 1) (9780898790498): Dickson, Smythe: Books
- Books on Writing – An Annotated List
- CORY DOCTOROW: RADICAL PRESENTISM ? Tin House Books Blog
- Help! I Need a Publisher!: WHERE DOES A STORY BEGIN??
- Hooks that snag great book deals
- How can I write better short stories (science fiction) | Ask MetaFilter
- How Publishing Really Works: How I Got Published (Part II): Nicola Morgan
- How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tell – WSJ.com
- http://www.maryrobinettekowal.com/journal/the-shades-of-milk-and-honey-style-sheet/
- In praise of trilogies | Books | guardian.co.uk
- Janet Reid, Literary Agent: Statistics to torture yourself with in 2010
- Jim C. Hines ? In Defense of Criticism
- Killing Your Editors — BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG
- Louise Marley – Tips to Avoid the Slush Pile
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Revision Checklist
- Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi ? BSCreview
- Open Letter from a Writer to New Publishers
- Opinion: let’s all go HBO
- The Death of Fiction? | Mother Jones
- The Inigo Montoya Guide to 27 Commonly Misused Words | Copyblogger
- The Lesson I Learned From George R. R. Martin – Suvudu – Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
- The pros and cons of writing a series – Jaine Fenn – Tales from the Garret
- The Second Act: Boost your productivity with Hemingway?s hack
- Top Ten Question Dutton Editors Ask Themselves ? Writing and Illustrating
- Writers Digest Books – books from this publisher (ISBNs begin with 978-0-89879)
- Writing better dialogue | Ask MetaFilter
- Writing tools – Charlie’s Diary
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