linkspam is afraid of the new tv season
Neil Gaiman has 8 rules for writing (Brain Pickings).
Slate has a roundup of the reviews of J.K. Rowling's new novel.
Speaking of writing, Seanan McGuire refuses to write her female characters being raped. Brava.
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Noted for later: Jay Smooth on the polite way to tell Mitt Romney's family we think he's a weirdo.
More politics: why am I unsurprised that Mitt Romney would name Jack Nicklaus the greatest athlete of the 20th Century? Me, I'd have gone for Jim Thorpe, or Satchel Paige, or Babe Didrikson. Or, as one of the commenters on the article mentions, Rheinhold Messner.
Here is an interactive map of the gender pay gap by Congressional district.
This blogger at Vintage Space goes all Snopes on the idea that NASA costs half as much as the Department of Defense.
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If you leave off the bechamel, this looks like a pretty healthy fall vegetable meal.
And this pork loin pot roast looks quick and really tasty. Hmmm.
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Wicked cute: baby red pandas.
Randall Munroe better hope he never runs into Sokka.
Grantland has a pretty nuanced review of Looper. Still sounds pretty good, I have to say: smart small SF movies are thin on the ground.
Today I'm glad I don't work in downtown SF anymore, because today Critical Mass turns 20, and the local radio thinks 10,000 bicyclists might turn up.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Slate has a roundup of the reviews of J.K. Rowling's new novel.
Speaking of writing, Seanan McGuire refuses to write her female characters being raped. Brava.
*
Noted for later: Jay Smooth on the polite way to tell Mitt Romney's family we think he's a weirdo.
More politics: why am I unsurprised that Mitt Romney would name Jack Nicklaus the greatest athlete of the 20th Century? Me, I'd have gone for Jim Thorpe, or Satchel Paige, or Babe Didrikson. Or, as one of the commenters on the article mentions, Rheinhold Messner.
Here is an interactive map of the gender pay gap by Congressional district.
This blogger at Vintage Space goes all Snopes on the idea that NASA costs half as much as the Department of Defense.
*
If you leave off the bechamel, this looks like a pretty healthy fall vegetable meal.
And this pork loin pot roast looks quick and really tasty. Hmmm.
*
Wicked cute: baby red pandas.
Randall Munroe better hope he never runs into Sokka.
Grantland has a pretty nuanced review of Looper. Still sounds pretty good, I have to say: smart small SF movies are thin on the ground.
Today I'm glad I don't work in downtown SF anymore, because today Critical Mass turns 20, and the local radio thinks 10,000 bicyclists might turn up.
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.