linkspam has returned! Didja miss me?
I was basically off-line for the last five days so today's links may not be new to you.
Bruce Schneier posted the link to this essay on the value of pseudonymity. [T]he forum for public discourse is no longer the town hall, or newspaper, or fliers on the street. It is here on the Internet, and it is happening in communities like this, hosted by private sector companies
Apparently National Geographic bought the group blogging site ScienceBlogs, and it has announced that none of its bloggers will be allowed to continue blogging pseudonymously. So most of them are decamping, leaving NatGeo with the domain name, which might be what they wanted, anyway. (Apparently NatGeo isn't familiar with The Economist, where all the bloggers use pseudonyms (and the reporters are anonymous).
The New Yorker has a long piece on Justice Clarence Thomas and his judicial philosophy. (For all that I disagree strongly with nearly everything Thomas believes, I do think he's got the right idea in hiring clerks from schools other than the Ivies.)
Rolling Stone on How the World Failed Haiti.
The Big Picture has photos from Libya as the rebels take Tripoli. (Warning for scenes of violence.)
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I blame
rthstewart for my ambivalent response to this good environmental news. I guess it's okay so long as they're not Talking Otters...
Rita Lakin on what it was like to be a woman writing for TV in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jason Momoa didn't make much money this weekend; OTOH he did get to show off his totally awesome abs. (I still don't recognize him without a beard, though...) Speaking of Conan, the Black Gate reviewed the movie. In sum: uncreative storywise, but the visuals are great.
Bujold fans might enjoy a look at this timeline of Barrayaran history. Which leads me to a stupid question: why is the war that Piotr fought in as a young man called the First Cetagandan War? I mean, there hasn't been a Second Cetagandan War, has there? ...Oh, wait, here's the answer.
Strange Horizons has a long piece on the likely ecological effects of various apocalypses.
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Corporette has a post on keeping your work-life separate from your home-life.
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So I read Christopher McDougall's Born to Run last week, and it was really entertaining. It's a great story about the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, the rise of barefoot running, and a once-in-a-lifetime 50-mile race in the canyons of northern Mexico. If this is the sort of book you're interested in, you would like it, and you'd come away wanting to do 7 miles in the hills.
That said, McDougall is clearly a convert to, if not barefoot running, minimalist running. He and his interviewees assert that human beings evolved as long-distance runners and that the development of supportive and cushioned running shoes has actually caused most running injuries.
So, to quote TNC, Talk to Me Like I'm Stupid: is this true? Does anyone have any solid information on the question?
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Bruce Schneier posted the link to this essay on the value of pseudonymity. [T]he forum for public discourse is no longer the town hall, or newspaper, or fliers on the street. It is here on the Internet, and it is happening in communities like this, hosted by private sector companies
Apparently National Geographic bought the group blogging site ScienceBlogs, and it has announced that none of its bloggers will be allowed to continue blogging pseudonymously. So most of them are decamping, leaving NatGeo with the domain name, which might be what they wanted, anyway. (Apparently NatGeo isn't familiar with The Economist, where all the bloggers use pseudonyms (and the reporters are anonymous).
The New Yorker has a long piece on Justice Clarence Thomas and his judicial philosophy. (For all that I disagree strongly with nearly everything Thomas believes, I do think he's got the right idea in hiring clerks from schools other than the Ivies.)
Rolling Stone on How the World Failed Haiti.
The Big Picture has photos from Libya as the rebels take Tripoli. (Warning for scenes of violence.)
*
I blame
rthstewart for my ambivalent response to this good environmental news. I guess it's okay so long as they're not Talking Otters...
Rita Lakin on what it was like to be a woman writing for TV in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jason Momoa didn't make much money this weekend; OTOH he did get to show off his totally awesome abs. (I still don't recognize him without a beard, though...) Speaking of Conan, the Black Gate reviewed the movie. In sum: uncreative storywise, but the visuals are great.
Bujold fans might enjoy a look at this timeline of Barrayaran history. Which leads me to a stupid question: why is the war that Piotr fought in as a young man called the First Cetagandan War? I mean, there hasn't been a Second Cetagandan War, has there? ...Oh, wait, here's the answer.
Strange Horizons has a long piece on the likely ecological effects of various apocalypses.
*
Corporette has a post on keeping your work-life separate from your home-life.
*
So I read Christopher McDougall's Born to Run last week, and it was really entertaining. It's a great story about the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, the rise of barefoot running, and a once-in-a-lifetime 50-mile race in the canyons of northern Mexico. If this is the sort of book you're interested in, you would like it, and you'd come away wanting to do 7 miles in the hills.
That said, McDougall is clearly a convert to, if not barefoot running, minimalist running. He and his interviewees assert that human beings evolved as long-distance runners and that the development of supportive and cushioned running shoes has actually caused most running injuries.
So, to quote TNC, Talk to Me Like I'm Stupid: is this true? Does anyone have any solid information on the question?
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.