Linkspam is tired of coping, sometimes.
Okay, so I haven't watched LOST since season 2. But last night was the finale: where can I go for a brief and pithy summing-up of who lived, who died, and What It All Meant?
TNC has a guest post by one of his commenters on adapting books to film.
Might be worth bookmarking: Neal Stephenson's joint project with Greg Bear & others. I have no idea what this is about, but apparently it's going to be very interactive. ::shrugs::
Speaking of SF, if anyone else is utterly baffled by why Miles Vorkosigan is second in line for the Imperial throne, this might help; it's a genealogy of the Vorbarra imperial line. (Although having read A Deeper Season in the last week, I want to pencil in "Catherine" as Dorca Vorbarra's first wife.)
DB Sweeney's apparently in a web-based series about the zombie apocalypse. Coolness!
Oh, and here's another short apocalyptic film. (H/T to SF Signal for both of those.)
If you read
laurashapiro, you probably already saw this link, but seriously, this is a splendid piece of fannish art (DW). ::loves::
Also relating to the good Doctor, I agree with sahiya that Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan would make an awesome companion. Poke around her tags to find the other pieces of the series: it's quite wonderful. (DW, Ten, gen)
Remix has gone live. Do not waste your time looking for the story I wrote, since I didn't write for it. Haven't signed up for SPN Summergen, either. I haven't even opened a story file for several months, and, well. This is one of the dry spells. Not sure when that's going to change, either, other than the occasional drabble. (Argh.)
I am also not doing the id meme: I see no reason to ask strangers to psychoanalyze me anonymously based on my fiction. Which doesn't mean I don't occasionally look askance at the handful of hugely popular slash writers who regularly turn the female characters crazy or dead or invisible to the narrative--but it's not my job to tell them their ass is showing, and I can always find another story to read, anyway.
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Courtesy of Wired's Danger Room blog: the Kim Jong-Il insult generator. This is not nearly as much fun as the BRQG. And, frankly, makes light of the real threat North Korea does pose to peace in Asia.
Back in the US, violent crime has dropped by 5% in the last year. Despite the recession. Huh.
Mark Bowden (who wrote Black Hawk Down) has a long piece in The Atlantic about the Conficker worm.
And this is a long piece from 2006 about an elite endurance athlete.
By way of
seperis: how to restore your privacy on Facebook.
And this comic does a great job of explaining the story of the discredited MMR-Autism study.
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I saw In the Wake at Berkeley Repertory over the weekend. This play is on its way to NYC within the year, so more of y'all might have a chance to see it. It's dense and complicated, and rather overwritten, but not as sprawling in the aftermath as it feels while watching it. It's a play about how the personal and the political are inextricably defined, and how being blind to privilege can cause as much havoc in one's romantic life as in the nation's operation. This review gets to the heart of the play, although it's more forgiving than I am of the length and the density.
It's one of those plays that wasn't necessarily fun to watch, but I'm very glad I saw it, and I do recommend it, especially to the lefty-progressive types who might find some of what it has to say a bit uncomfortably pointed. Note: While the playwright makes an effort to give voice to a few conservative opinions, this play is clearly written for and to the world of comfortable liberal politics; I don't know that any of the more conservative types reading this post would find the play either interesting or palatable.
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I managed to rather bungle an attempt to be social yesterday. It ended up okay, and the other party was very gracious, but oy, this being an adult is still really rather fraught, even after more than two decades of practice.
Perhaps I will treat myself to a BLT for lunch.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
TNC has a guest post by one of his commenters on adapting books to film.
Might be worth bookmarking: Neal Stephenson's joint project with Greg Bear & others. I have no idea what this is about, but apparently it's going to be very interactive. ::shrugs::
Speaking of SF, if anyone else is utterly baffled by why Miles Vorkosigan is second in line for the Imperial throne, this might help; it's a genealogy of the Vorbarra imperial line. (Although having read A Deeper Season in the last week, I want to pencil in "Catherine" as Dorca Vorbarra's first wife.)
DB Sweeney's apparently in a web-based series about the zombie apocalypse. Coolness!
Oh, and here's another short apocalyptic film. (H/T to SF Signal for both of those.)
If you read
laurashapiro, you probably already saw this link, but seriously, this is a splendid piece of fannish art (DW). ::loves::
Also relating to the good Doctor, I agree with sahiya that Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan would make an awesome companion. Poke around her tags to find the other pieces of the series: it's quite wonderful. (DW, Ten, gen)
Remix has gone live. Do not waste your time looking for the story I wrote, since I didn't write for it. Haven't signed up for SPN Summergen, either. I haven't even opened a story file for several months, and, well. This is one of the dry spells. Not sure when that's going to change, either, other than the occasional drabble. (Argh.)
I am also not doing the id meme: I see no reason to ask strangers to psychoanalyze me anonymously based on my fiction. Which doesn't mean I don't occasionally look askance at the handful of hugely popular slash writers who regularly turn the female characters crazy or dead or invisible to the narrative--but it's not my job to tell them their ass is showing, and I can always find another story to read, anyway.
*
Courtesy of Wired's Danger Room blog: the Kim Jong-Il insult generator. This is not nearly as much fun as the BRQG. And, frankly, makes light of the real threat North Korea does pose to peace in Asia.
Back in the US, violent crime has dropped by 5% in the last year. Despite the recession. Huh.
Mark Bowden (who wrote Black Hawk Down) has a long piece in The Atlantic about the Conficker worm.
And this is a long piece from 2006 about an elite endurance athlete.
By way of
seperis: how to restore your privacy on Facebook.
And this comic does a great job of explaining the story of the discredited MMR-Autism study.
*
I saw In the Wake at Berkeley Repertory over the weekend. This play is on its way to NYC within the year, so more of y'all might have a chance to see it. It's dense and complicated, and rather overwritten, but not as sprawling in the aftermath as it feels while watching it. It's a play about how the personal and the political are inextricably defined, and how being blind to privilege can cause as much havoc in one's romantic life as in the nation's operation. This review gets to the heart of the play, although it's more forgiving than I am of the length and the density.
It's one of those plays that wasn't necessarily fun to watch, but I'm very glad I saw it, and I do recommend it, especially to the lefty-progressive types who might find some of what it has to say a bit uncomfortably pointed. Note: While the playwright makes an effort to give voice to a few conservative opinions, this play is clearly written for and to the world of comfortable liberal politics; I don't know that any of the more conservative types reading this post would find the play either interesting or palatable.
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I managed to rather bungle an attempt to be social yesterday. It ended up okay, and the other party was very gracious, but oy, this being an adult is still really rather fraught, even after more than two decades of practice.
Perhaps I will treat myself to a BLT for lunch.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.