Friday Link Salad
Because link salad will go bad if it's left in the refrigerator too long, here's your Friday edition. Before I get to that, thanks to everybody who congratulated me on my publishing news yesterday. I'm quite pleased with myself. Now, returning to our regularly-scheduled programming:
1) Via Ballon Juice, the blogger Kung Fu Monkey misses Republicans. You know, the sober, sensible fact-based types that expected weapons systems to work and were in favor of science.
2) Via the nice folks at Making Light, I give you Nine tips to Identify Clutter. De-clutter away!
3) From my friend and Campbell Award-winning author maryrobinette, I give you the Chilean mine rescue to scale, or, Half A Mile Down Is Really Damn Deep.
4) The other night, I found myself watching in fascination as some of the folks from History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers" tackled Indian roads. The show is called IRT Deadliest Roads, and featured in this episode a one-lane road with 7,000 foot vertical drops and no guard rails. Oh, and the road had two-way traffic! I'd rather juggle dynamite than drive those roads.
5) It's been making the rounds, but I got it from Tobias Buckell. I give you the true size of Africa. It's a map of Africa with various countries, including the US, resting comfortably inside of it. The visualization puts a lot of Africa's problems in scale.
1) Via Ballon Juice, the blogger Kung Fu Monkey misses Republicans. You know, the sober, sensible fact-based types that expected weapons systems to work and were in favor of science.
2) Via the nice folks at Making Light, I give you Nine tips to Identify Clutter. De-clutter away!
3) From my friend and Campbell Award-winning author maryrobinette, I give you the Chilean mine rescue to scale, or, Half A Mile Down Is Really Damn Deep.
4) The other night, I found myself watching in fascination as some of the folks from History Channel's "Ice Road Truckers" tackled Indian roads. The show is called IRT Deadliest Roads, and featured in this episode a one-lane road with 7,000 foot vertical drops and no guard rails. Oh, and the road had two-way traffic! I'd rather juggle dynamite than drive those roads.
5) It's been making the rounds, but I got it from Tobias Buckell. I give you the true size of Africa. It's a map of Africa with various countries, including the US, resting comfortably inside of it. The visualization puts a lot of Africa's problems in scale.