Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- How to Turn Off the Internet While Writing on Your Computer – I can very, very, very much see the value of something like this.
- Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel – Wow — that would be very cool if it ever came to fruition (i.e., industrial reality).
- Formula to detect an author’s literary ‘fingerprint’ – Interesting, though more as a mental excerise than anything I suspect would be of real use.
- coffeeem: Please, please help. – From Emma Bull.
- pecunium: Root and branch – Worse and worse.
- Will Bunch: While Dying, Editor & Publisher Showed Journalism How To Live: Will Bunch
- Making Light: Peter Watts, distinguished Canadian SF writer, arrested by US border police while trying to re-enter Canada – Rrg.
- Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border – I’d really like to believe that there is a lot more to this than the story indicates … but I’m not at all confident that there is.
- iPhone economics – The bright-shiny keeps drawing me … sort off like a bug zapper, I fear …
- Spiritual Survey: New Study Points To Rise Of ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Religion | The Wall of Separation – I think there’s a lot to be said for drawing on tradition and “orthodoxy,”, but also applying your own reason and conscience to your spirituality (cf. Hooker). The problem comes when orthodox authorities become, well, authoritarian, and don’t just think they’re right, but that they are completely right and the only ones who are. Think how scared they must be. Indeed, you can hear it in their increasingly shrill voices every day.
- Stupid DRM, abusive EULAs, hopeless ecommerce: why I’m not even going to try to sell my short story collection audiobook downloads – Goofiness. I’m really hoping that in five years, we’ll be done with all the DRM/EULA crap and can have a rational working model that provides a profitable experience for all and a pleasant experience for the customer. call me a cock-eyed optimist.
- Firedoglake » John Gibson’s New Book: The Media Brainwashed America into Hating George W. Bush – So … does that mean swiftboating is bad?
- 10 Eye-Opening Infographs You May Have Missed – There are some nice ones here. Others are perhaps a bit too clever for clarity.
- mental_floss Blog » The Island of Misfit Christmas Specials – I loved the Mr Magoo “Christmas Carol” growing up.
- The Sun – Heh.
- Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing – Schmidt’s comments aren’t heartening, but, really — Microsoft?
- ETAOIN SHRDLU – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – It always makes me thing of the Fredric Brown story.
- The perfect way to slice a pizza – physics-math – 11 December 2009 – New Scientist – Money quote: “It’s a funny thing about some mathematicians. We often don’t care if the results have applications because the results are themselves so pretty.” Which is kind of nice, sometimes.
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