As stated yesterday, I am done with LiveJournal, due to their Byzantine spam suppression policies making it impossible for me to build Link Salad posts here any more ( Read more... )

Never mind. LiveJournal is giving me the world's most useless error message today:


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Being right or being happy: pilot study - Which kind of reminds me of my “justice versus peace” parable I sometimes tell. (Via David Goldman.)

Was Dickens’s Christmas Carol borrowed from Lowell’s mill girls? - A new discovery by literary scholars highlights an unexpected inspiration. (Thanks to Dad.)

Stunning photography of man's mightiest shame ( Read more... )

In which our collaborate novel Our Lady of the Islands, written by me and Shannon Page, finds a home

Jade par Jay Lake - A French review of the French translation of my book Green. Some complaints, but I interpret the Google Translate version as generally positive.

Textopornographie: France creates its own word for 'sexting' - Of course they did ( Read more... )

Interview: Jay Lake - Ken Scholes interviews me for Lightspeed.

Hobbit's Gollum Lacked Precioussss Vitamins - An offbeat study, released on Sunday, which concludes that the evil characters in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" lost their battle against men, elves and dwarves because they suffered from vitamin deficiency. Uh… Rickets. Yeah. (Via David ( Read more... )

Skip the Supplements - I can tell from long experience as a cancer patient being treated with chemotherapy, all those ‘natural’ supplements can be a real problem. Many of the things people take thinking to protect their body can also protect the cancer from the effects of chemotherapy, for example. Good luck figuring that out by talking to anyone ( Read more... )

Civilization and Its Stoplights - Interesting. I have found myself falling on both sides of this question over the years.

Twitter Reverts Changes To Blocking Functionality After Strong Negative User Feedback - Uh, yeah.

California to Test GPS Earthquake Warning System

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram - A ten-dimensional ( Read more... )

NSA forces novelist to scrap book - Hah. Charlie Stross from the other end of the telescope. (Via Dad.)

Hubble Space Telescope Sees Evidence of Water Vapor Venting Off Jupiter Moon - (Via Bruce Taylor.)

What You Get When You Pour Molten Aluminum Into An Ant Hill - Wow…

Strange gelatinous creature gives hints of the first animals on Earth - The ( Read more... )

Elevenses And Then Some: How To Prepare A Feast Fit For A Hobbit - Now that’s a lot of food… (Via Lisa Costello.)

Benedict Cumberbatch sees Smaug as sexy

Misheard for the holidays: When good song lyrics go bad - (Thanks to Dad.)

The Best of the Worst Logo Designs - Oh geeze. (I think I got this from Steve Buchheit, but I have lost the source.

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Dementia: Terry Pratchett 'angry' with government

Meet Your Body’s Death Eaters - From brain to blood to bone, macrophages take out our cellular trash. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Calvin and Hobbes on ebooks - Hahahah.

Twitter’s World - Languages and Twitter.

Prosthetic Arm Found in Second-Hand Shop - Ah, headlines.

Irrefutable Proof that ( Read more... )