Last Sunday, I told people to go play and take a photo [ jlake.com | LiveJournal ]. Quite a set of images resulted ( Read more... )

Pulled from my Australia photos. These are free for use with attribution.


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I recently asked, " What have the great trials of your life taught you?" The responses I received ranged from thoughtful to funny to deeply moving. Some were quite personal. I liked them so much I'm reposting from comments to here. If you have a few minutes, enjoy them.

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Remember " The Last Days of Yokohama Sid's Used Ferris Wheel Lot"? It was an open story we did here on the blog back in 2007. I wrote a stub, and people added to it in comments. jeffsoesbe then edited into something coherent, to deal with comment overlap and other such fillips of the format ( Read more... )

I'm considering changing the subtitle of this blog. Currently (on LJ only), it's subtitled "A More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy". But sometimes one just has to freshen up. Here's a few options, let me know what you think. Also bonus for anyone who wants to illustrate any of these comments. Best illustration will win a free book (or two ( Read more... )

Reminder: I cannot respond to LJ comments right now, but will do so once I am back in the United States.

A reader reacts to METAtropolis, and specifically to "In the Forests of the Night"

pabba draws authors he loves to read

Battlestar Sumpsonica - Um. Wow.

Sonoma XP - Bad Astronomy Blog on the reality behind the Windows XP screen. I always thought ( Read more... )

Reminder: I cannot respond to LJ comments right now, but will do so once I am back in the United States.

safewrite with a very nice Booklist review of The Best of Abyss & Apex, v.1

willyumtx sends a link to a robot that will make you die of teh cute

Ninja suit helps one-flipper turtle swim - (Thanks to lillypond.)

Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams writes to say that the ( Read more... )

This is a test post. In the event of a real post, you would not be informed that this is a test post. Talk amongst yourself.

ETA: Testing whether a post edit suppresses the LJ f-list view.

jaylake

Originally published at jlake.com.

Starship Sofa with, among many other good things, a podcast of my flash piece “A Conspiracy of Dentists”

The Fix reviews The Best of Abyss & Apex

Amazon Aims at Content Delivery - Interesting future state stuff.

APOD with a photo of the smiling heavens

Polar opposites - Some coverage of the possibly imminent (in geological terms) flipping of the ( Read more... )

My posts are appearing and disappearing from flist views more or less at random. I'm going to backlink a recent post here, since LJ has decided it is no longer worthy of flist display.

[writing] Those things we protect as if they were our lives

And just in case it pulls the same damned trick with the next post:

[personal] Getting myself ( Read more... )