Link dump for Fri. 2010/03/12 after the cut. The wiki version includes a tag cloud.Links:
- 'Aliens have taken the place of angels' | Film | The Guardian (SciFi, SF, Genre, Literature, Writing)
- 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars | Online Universities (Academia, Academic, Research, SearchEngine, Writing, List)
- 16,000 Words on Why Japan Sucks | The Atlantic Wire (Japan, Culture, Critique)
- 35 Great Social Media Infographics | pamorama (Visualization, SocialNetworking)
- 43 Essential Controls for Web Applications | UX Booth (AJAX, JavaScript, UI, Framework, Application, Library, List, Patterns)
- 6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed (WordPress, PlugIn, List, Recommendation)
- 6 Historic Acts of Revenge That Put 'Kill Bill' to Shame | Cracked.com (Revenge, History)
- 8 Must-Have Twitter and Facebook Add-Ons – PCWorld (Twitter, Facebook, PlugIn, AddOn)
- [bnc] British National Corpus (for:corpus, for:english, for:language)
- A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable (HTML, XHTML, XML, Semantic, Screenplay, MarkUp, Writing, Film, CSS, Layout, Accessibility, Critique)
- A List Apart: Articles: Web Standards for E-books (Ebook, XHTML, XML, Usability, HTML, Publishing, Design, Accessibility)
- A New Layer of the Brain is Evolving: The Metacortex « Nova Spivack – Minding the Planet (Biology, Brain, Human)
- Accelerating Future » Valid Transhumanist Criticism? (TransHumanism, Critique)
- Anarchism and science fiction (Anarchy, SciFi, SF)
- Barbarian Confessions by Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Smart Pop Books (SF, SciFi, StarWars, Essay)
- Basement Stories (Market, SF, SciFi)
- Benefits of Coffee: A Cup a Day May Keep The Doctor Away – StyleCaster (Coffee, Health)
- BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: Sentence Structure Oopsies (Writing, Grammar, English, Sentence)
- BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writing and Young Adult Books (Writing, YoungAdult)
- BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writing Nowadays: Finding an Agent or a Publisher (Writing, Agent, Publisher, HowTo.Find)
- Brass Goggles: The lighter side of Steampunk (SteamPunk, Blog, Forum)
- Catalyst could power homes on a bottle of water, produce hydrogen on-site (w/ Video) (Watch, Tech, Energy, Energy.Generation, Hydrogen)
- character builder – sketch (Character, Writing, Worksheet)
- Cobuild Concordance and Collocations Sampler (Corpus, English)
- Company to sell 'world's first practical jetpack' for $75,000 (w/ Video) (Watch, Tech, AeroSpace, JetPack, Transportation, Video)
- Could the Mono Lake arsenic prove there is a shadow biosphere? – Times Online (Biology, Evolution)
- Create Character Depth (Writing, Character, ScreenWriting)
- Cryogenic electron emission phenomenon has no known physics explanation (Physics, Hmmm)
- cupidsbow: Women/Writing 1: How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor, by cupidsbow (Writing, Gender, LiveJournal)
- Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate Collaborative Web Site – Wikipedia – Lifehacker (MediaWiki, HowTo, DIY, LifeHacker)
- Dark Roasted Blend: Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future (Architecture, Future, Futurism, Art, Design, Illustration)
- Do the Meek Inherit the Galaxy? : Discovery News (SETI, Evolution, Astronomy)
- Doc Savage Organized || docsavage.org (Reference, Pulp, DocSavage, ActionAdventure)
- Ecstatic Days » Blog Archive » Testing the Weird (Weird, Anthology)
- Editorial Ass: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That an Individual in Possession of a Word Processor Must Be in Want of a Book Deal (or, What Would Jane Do?) (Writing, Publishing, Rejection)
- Espresso Book Machine – YouTube (Book, Publishing, POD, Tech, Video, EspressoBookMachine)
- Experts reaffirm asteroid impact caused mass extinction 65 million years ago (w/ Video) (Asteroid, Impact, Extinction)
- Ficly – A better, shorter story (Writing, Blog, Narrative, Collaboration, StoryTelling, Collaborative, Fiction)
- Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples | Magazine (Math, Algorithm, Analysis, ComputerScience, Compression, Graphics)
- Five Shows You Should Be Watching – TV Feature at IGN (TV, Recommendation, List, 2010)
- Free will is an illusion, biologist says (FreeWill, NeuroScience, Consciousness, Biology, Brain)
- fritz freiheit.com blog » Link dump (Link, Dump, Fritz)
- From sketch to photo instantly (this is insanely awesome) (Image, Photo, Search, Algorithm)
- Future Plate Tectonics – Dark Roasted Blend (Tectonics, PlateTectonics, Future)
- G-Speak will make the keyboard and mouse obsolete (w/ Video) (Watch, Tech, Interface, Video)
- Gallery – Six tricks that alien trackers could use – Image 1 – New Scientist (SETI)
- Genrewonk » Quick rules for tightly plotted fiction (Writing, Plot)
- Get Bricked: 31 Incredible Examples of Lego Architecture | Design + Ideas on WU (Architecture, Lego)
- Guest Post: Melina Marchetta on Personal Taste | Justine Larbalestier (Reading)
- How Much Caffeine Is In That? | Wise Bread (Caffeine)
- How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test | freewaregenius.com (PDF, Ms.Word, Conversion, Free, Review, FreeWare)
- How to create an elegant web layout in Photoshop | [Re]Encoded.com (WordPress, Web, Design, Photoshop, Tutorial, Layout)
- How To Make Cheesecake That Will Amaze Your Friends | Apartment Therapy The Kitchn (Food, Recipe, for:sherlonya)
- Hydrocarbon superconductor created (Watch, Tech, Organic, MaterialScience, Superconductivity)
- Inside A Steampunk House | PlanetOddity.com (Art, SteamPunk, Home, House)
- Invisible Ansible « File 770 (SF, SciFi, Fandom, Fanzine)
- Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms? – Star Trek – io9 (SF, SciFi, Humanism)
- Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel « (Writing)
- It's 2010 – finally my jet pack is here! (Watch, Tech, AeroSpace, JetPack, Transportation)
- Japan: It's Not Funny Anymore – tim rogers – Kotaku (Japan, Culture)
- John Scalzi – So Why Did The Hurt Locker Beat Out Avatar for Best Picture? – SciFi Scanner – AMC (SF, SciFi, Movie, Review)
- LavaAmp: The Amazing Handheld Thermal Cycler : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) (DNA, Health, Watch, Tech)
- Learning keeps brain healthy: study (Brain, Health, Learning)
- Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ – CNN.com (Politics, Psychology, Religion, Intelligence)
- Locus Online Reviews: An Overview of International Science Fiction/Fantasy in 2009 (SF, SciFi, International, 2009)
- Losing the Plot | Emerging Writers Studio (Writing, Plot)
- LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% (Web, Design, Psychology, UI, MadLib)
- Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP || arxiv1.library.cornell.edu (Economics, Math, Complexity, Algorithm, NP, NP.Complete)
- MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity (Watch, Tech, Energy, Energy.Generation)
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Archetype vs. Cliche (Writing, Plot, Cliche, Advice)
- New exploit technique nullifies major Windows defense (Watch, Ms.Windows, Microsoft, Security, Exploit)
- Notes from New Sodom: The Spelunkers of Speculative Fiction (SF, SciFi)
- On Genre, Part II: the future of genre (Genre, SF, SciFi, Publishing, Literature)
- One Equation to Rule Them All (Math)
- Open-source hardware takes baby steps toward the gadget mainstream (OpenSource, Hardware)
- Outsider Writing : gordsellar.com (Writing)
- Peninsular War: Army Organization in the Iberian Peninsula (NapoleonicWars, Military, Organization)
- Pondering the Nature of World Building. « Murphy’s Pondering Tree: Mark II (WorldBuilding, Process, Writing)
- Popular Science Puts Entire Scanned Archive Online, Free | Gadget Lab | Wired.com (Magazine, Reference, Science, Technology, History, Online)
- prog21: Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers. (HowTo, Compiler, Reference, Programming)
- Redstone Science Fiction (Market, SF, SciFi)
- Reflections on Avatar by Ray Kurzweil || KurzweilAI.net (SF, SciFi, Movie, Review)
- Rules for Writing a Fantasy Novel (Writing, Fantasy, Humor)
- Russia Is Making Flying Saucers. DUN-DUN-DUN! | Singularity Hub (Russia, Tech, Dirigible, Video)
- Science fiction sports that are better than football | scyfilove.com (SF, SciFi, Sport, Video)
- Scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material (Watch, Tech, MaterialScience)
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #36: Plotting Against You. (Writing, Idea, LiveJournal)
- Secure WordPress — WordPress Plugins (WordPress, PlugIn, Security)
- Serial narratives « (Writing)
- Snake Oil? The scientific evidence for health supplements | Information Is Beautiful (Health)
- storm_grant: Going Pro 101: The Slasher’s Guide To Converting Fanfic To Original Fiction (Writing, Reference, Fanfic)
- Synopsis tips for writers (Writing, Synopsis)
- TalkToYoUniverse: Description, Relevance, and Genre (Writing, Description, Genre)
- TalkToYoUniverse: The writer's relationship to the reader (Writing)
- Tea Party: Everything You Know Is Wrong | OurFuture.org (Watch, Politics, USA)
- Template engineering demonstrates possibilities of new superconducting material (Watch, Tech, Superconductivity)
- The 5 Most Terrifying Civilizations In The History of the World | Cracked.com (History, Civilization, Terror)
- The Blood-Red Pencil: Building Character (Writing, Character, Plot, Narrative)
- The boom in printing on demand: Just press print | The Economist (Publishing, Business, POD)
- The Espresso Book Machine | MetaFilter (EspressoBookMachine, Book, Tech, POD, MetaFilter)
- The First Test That Proves General Theory of Relativity Wrong – A spinning top increases its weight much more than expected – Softpedia (Physics, Gravity, QuantumMechanics)
- The Hero's Journey – Television Tropes & Idioms (TvTropes, HeroesJourney, Writing)
- The Idea That Jews Don't Write Fantasy Is A Fantasy – Books – io9 (Culture, Fantasy, History, Literature, Religion, io9)
- The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot (Writing, HowTo, Advice, Pulp, Plot)
- The many faces of plotting. « (Writing, Plot)
- The Other Side of the Story: Re-Write Wednesday: Get Your Facts Straight (Writing)
- The Possibilities of FTL: Or Fermis Paradox Reconsidered – StumbleUpon (Fritz, Fritz.BackLink, FermisParadox)
- Tools. Change. | Booksquare (Publishing, Ebook)
- Top 10 Theoretical Megastructures – Listverse (MegaStructure, MegaEngineering)
- Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Pulp Lives, Again (But For How Long?) (Pulp, Publishing, Reading)
- Travel By Thought: Saving Science Fiction From Itself? (SF, SciFi)
- Ultimate D&D-playing dungeon. And I do mean "ultimate." – Boing Boing (Gaming, RPG, BoingBoing)
- Underrated computing threats you need to know about (Security, Ms.Windows, Awareness, Advice, Alert)
- Unintended Consequences: Twelve Years under the DMCA | Electronic Frontier Foundation (DMCA, Censorship, Abuse, Politics, Security, Copyright, Internet, History)
- US military developing geolocation system for underground (Watch, Tech, GPS)
- Warrick – Recover Your Lost Website (Tool, Web, WebSite, Recovery)
- Wasps discovered penicillin millions of years ago – Telegraph (Biology, Antibiotics, Evolution, Synergy, Symbiosis, Drug)
- Wendigo Mountain – Why Would Should All Stop Worrying and Love the SF Ghetto (Writing, Publishing)
- What I learned about you through 4 redesigns (Blog, Design, Advice, Blogging)
- What if the Seinfeld cast played D&D? (RPG, Comic)
- What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory | Wired Science | Wired.com (Philosophy, Cosmology, Physics, Multiverse, Entropy)
- Why Do Consumers Think Book Prices Are Too High? | Stormwolf.com (Book, Ebook, Pricing, Publishing)
- Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women | Overthinking It (Women, Female, Character, Gender, Criticism, Writing)
- Why There Is No Jewish Narnia > Publications > Jewish Review of Books (Fantasy, Culture, Religion, Literature)
- William Meikle: Writing Science Fiction – Ten Cliches To Avoid (Writing, SciFi, SF, Cliche)
- WordPress plugin: Protect your blog from malicious URL Requests (WordPress, Security, PlugIn, PHP, Snippet)
- Writing a Great Ending — A Place for Strangers and Beggars (Writing, Ending, Advice, LiveJournal)
- Your Military Science Fiction Isn't Really Military Science Fiction – military science fiction – io9 (SF, SciFi, Military, SF.Military, io9)
- Your Military Science Fiction Isn't Really Military Science Fiction – military science fiction – io9 (SF, SciFi, Military, SF.Military, io9)
- YouTube – Deichkind – Ich betäube mich ft. Sarah Walker (Music, Video, Hmmm, YouTube)
- YouTube – RedLetterMedia's Channel (SciFi, Video, YouTube, Review, Film, Movie)
- YouTube – The Guild (RPG, Video, YouTube, Pick)
- YouTube – The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar (Video, Music, RPG, YouTube, Humor, Pick)
Tagged Art
- Dark Roasted Blend: Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future
- Inside A Steampunk House | PlanetOddity.com
Tagged ComputerScience
Tagged Criticism
Tagged Critique
- 16,000 Words on Why Japan Sucks | The Atlantic Wire
- A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable
- Accelerating Future » Valid Transhumanist Criticism?
Tagged Fandom
Tagged Fantasy
- Rules for Writing a Fantasy Novel
- The Idea That Jews Don't Write Fantasy Is A Fantasy – Books – io9
- Why There Is No Jewish Narnia > Publications > Jewish Review of Books
Tagged FermisParadox
Tagged FreeWare
Tagged Futurism
Tagged Genre
- 'Aliens have taken the place of angels' | Film | The Guardian
- On Genre, Part II: the future of genre
- TalkToYoUniverse: Description, Relevance, and Genre
Tagged MediaWiki
Tagged Movie
- John Scalzi – So Why Did The Hurt Locker Beat Out Avatar for Best Picture? – SciFi Scanner – AMC
- Reflections on Avatar by Ray Kurzweil || KurzweilAI.net
- YouTube – RedLetterMedia's Channel
Tagged OpenSource
Tagged Philosophy
Tagged Plot
- Genrewonk » Quick rules for tightly plotted fiction
- Losing the Plot | Emerging Writers Studio
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Archetype vs. Cliche
- The Blood-Red Pencil: Building Character
- The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
- The many faces of plotting. «
Tagged PHP
Tagged Pick
Tagged Publishing
- A List Apart: Articles: Web Standards for E-books
- Editorial Ass: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That an Individual in Possession of a Word Processor Must Be in Want of a Book Deal (or, What Would Jane Do?)
- Espresso Book Machine – YouTube
- On Genre, Part II: the future of genre
- The boom in printing on demand: Just press print | The Economist
- Tools. Change. | Booksquare
- Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Pulp Lives, Again (But For How Long?)
- Wendigo Mountain – Why Would Should All Stop Worrying and Love the SF Ghetto
- Why Do Consumers Think Book Prices Are Too High? | Stormwolf.com
Tagged Reading
- Guest Post: Melina Marchetta on Personal Taste | Justine Larbalestier
- Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Pulp Lives, Again (But For How Long?)
Tagged Recommendation
- 6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed
- Five Shows You Should Be Watching – TV Feature at IGN
Tagged Review
- How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test | freewaregenius.com
- John Scalzi – So Why Did The Hurt Locker Beat Out Avatar for Best Picture? – SciFi Scanner – AMC
- Reflections on Avatar by Ray Kurzweil || KurzweilAI.net
- YouTube – RedLetterMedia's Channel
Tagged SF
- 'Aliens have taken the place of angels' | Film | The Guardian
- Anarchism and science fiction
- Barbarian Confessions by Kristine Kathryn Rusch — Smart Pop Books
- Basement Stories
- Invisible Ansible « File 770
- Is "Science Fiction Humanism" A Contradiction In Terms? – Star Trek – io9
- John Scalzi – So Why Did The Hurt Locker Beat Out Avatar for Best Picture? – SciFi Scanner – AMC
- Locus Online Reviews: An Overview of International Science Fiction/Fantasy in 2009
- Notes from New Sodom: The Spelunkers of Speculative Fiction
- On Genre, Part II: the future of genre
- Redstone Science Fiction
- Reflections on Avatar by Ray Kurzweil || KurzweilAI.net
- Science fiction sports that are better than football | scyfilove.com
- Travel By Thought: Saving Science Fiction From Itself?
- William Meikle: Writing Science Fiction – Ten Cliches To Avoid
- Your Military Science Fiction Isn't Really Military Science Fiction – military science fiction – io9
- Your Military Science Fiction Isn't Really Military Science Fiction – military science fiction – io9
Tagged Tech+Watch
- Catalyst could power homes on a bottle of water, produce hydrogen on-site (w/ Video)
- Company to sell 'world's first practical jetpack' for $75,000 (w/ Video)
- G-Speak will make the keyboard and mouse obsolete (w/ Video)
- Hydrocarbon superconductor created
- It's 2010 – finally my jet pack is here!
- LavaAmp: The Amazing Handheld Thermal Cycler : Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)
- MIT researchers discover new way of producing electricity
- Scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material
- Template engineering demonstrates possibilities of new superconducting material
- US military developing geolocation system for underground
Tagged TransHumanism
Tagged TV
Tagged Video
- Company to sell 'world's first practical jetpack' for $75,000 (w/ Video)
- Espresso Book Machine – YouTube
- G-Speak will make the keyboard and mouse obsolete (w/ Video)
- Russia Is Making Flying Saucers. DUN-DUN-DUN! | Singularity Hub
- Science fiction sports that are better than football | scyfilove.com
- YouTube – Deichkind – Ich betäube mich ft. Sarah Walker
- YouTube – RedLetterMedia's Channel
- YouTube – The Guild
- YouTube – The Guild – Do You Wanna Date My Avatar
Tagged Visualization
Tagged WordPress
- 6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed
- How to create an elegant web layout in Photoshop | [Re]Encoded.com
- Secure WordPress — WordPress Plugins
- WordPress plugin: Protect your blog from malicious URL Requests
Tagged WorldBuilding
Tagged Writing
- 'Aliens have taken the place of angels' | Film | The Guardian
- 100 Time-Saving Search Engines for Serious Scholars | Online Universities
- A List Apart: Articles: Unwebbable
- BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writers on Writing: Sentence Structure Oopsies
- BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writing and Young Adult Books
- BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » Writing Nowadays: Finding an Agent or a Publisher
- character builder – sketch
- Create Character Depth
- cupidsbow: Women/Writing 1: How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor, by cupidsbow
- Editorial Ass: It Is a Truth Universally Acknowledged That an Individual in Possession of a Word Processor Must Be in Want of a Book Deal (or, What Would Jane Do?)
- Ficly – A better, shorter story
- Genrewonk » Quick rules for tightly plotted fiction
- Is that supposed to happen? or How I fixed my first novel «
- Losing the Plot | Emerging Writers Studio
- Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent: Archetype vs. Cliche
- Outsider Writing : gordsellar.com
- Pondering the Nature of World Building. « Murphy’s Pondering Tree: Mark II
- Rules for Writing a Fantasy Novel
- seanan_mcguire: Thoughts on Writing #36: Plotting Against You.
- Serial narratives «
- storm_grant: Going Pro 101: The Slasher’s Guide To Converting Fanfic To Original Fiction
- Synopsis tips for writers
- TalkToYoUniverse: Description, Relevance, and Genre
- TalkToYoUniverse: The writer's relationship to the reader
- The Blood-Red Pencil: Building Character
- The Hero's Journey – Television Tropes & Idioms
- The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot
- The many faces of plotting. «
- The Other Side of the Story: Re-Write Wednesday: Get Your Facts Straight
- Wendigo Mountain – Why Would Should All Stop Worrying and Love the SF Ghetto
- Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women | Overthinking It
- William Meikle: Writing Science Fiction – Ten Cliches To Avoid
- Writing a Great Ending — A Place for Strangers and Beggars
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