linkspam has too much laundry to do
Linkspam has been on a brief hiatus because I spent the last five days skiing (and bitching about the cold), sledding, drinking good wine, and reading Kipling to my nephews. Did anything important happen since last Wednesday?
I did see that
bedlamsbard posted another part of Dust, introducing yet another original character with a fascinating backstory. ...this story is never going to end, is it? ::whimpers::
Anyway, onward:
Cracked, of all sites, making some pretty valid political points. Noted for later--the site is either down or blocked by our webfilters.
Heh, XKCD takes on the Terminator franchise.
Sherwood Smith has a lovely post on rereading Master and Commander, the first of the Aubrey-Maturin books. I have been very slowly working my way through the series on audiobook, and just finished Desolation Island the other day. I will take a short break with some Brother Cadfael, and then dive back into the Napoleonic Wars.
More Aubreyad links: Jo Walton's Reread index. And a fannish project in which the various voyages are mapped. And this fabulous Yuletide story in which Stephen & Jack develop telepathy.
Catching up on my Google Reader, I see I missed the opportunity say Mazel Tov! to Thea. ::throws confetti::
Exercising outdoors is apparently better for you. This is not a surprise: at least it's certainly more pleasant for me.
The down side of outdoor exercise: Runner's World reports on the mysterious disappearance of a participant in a legendary short & brutal Alaskan trail run.
Something more policy-related: Time magazine on the stratopheric cost of health care. (LongForm)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
I did see that
bedlamsbard posted another part of Dust, introducing yet another original character with a fascinating backstory. ...this story is never going to end, is it? ::whimpers::
Anyway, onward:
Cracked, of all sites, making some pretty valid political points. Noted for later--the site is either down or blocked by our webfilters.
Heh, XKCD takes on the Terminator franchise.
Sherwood Smith has a lovely post on rereading Master and Commander, the first of the Aubrey-Maturin books. I have been very slowly working my way through the series on audiobook, and just finished Desolation Island the other day. I will take a short break with some Brother Cadfael, and then dive back into the Napoleonic Wars.
More Aubreyad links: Jo Walton's Reread index. And a fannish project in which the various voyages are mapped. And this fabulous Yuletide story in which Stephen & Jack develop telepathy.
Catching up on my Google Reader, I see I missed the opportunity say Mazel Tov! to Thea. ::throws confetti::
Exercising outdoors is apparently better for you. This is not a surprise: at least it's certainly more pleasant for me.
The down side of outdoor exercise: Runner's World reports on the mysterious disappearance of a participant in a legendary short & brutal Alaskan trail run.
Something more policy-related: Time magazine on the stratopheric cost of health care. (LongForm)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.