Link salad: Yummy yummy.

[sesquipedeviant]

A week's worth of favourite links, all probably purloined from one science fiction author or another :}

• "14) The only universal message in science fiction: There exist minds that think as well as you do, but differently.
  Niven's corollary: The gene-tampered turkey you're talking to isn't necessarily one of them." (From Niven's Laws. Slightly more

Comments

[ex_chrisbil]

I love B3ta! Hurrah. Seen their other competitions?

[sesquipedeviant]

oh yes; goodness, aren't they marvellous? Kittens with lips! Wondrous gruesome! And their qotws taught me the priceless words "pikey" and "chav".

[ex_chrisbil]

Aha! Well, they're two very different things... better to be a pikey than a chav is my rule!

[sesquipedeviant]

I'd ask if it were a "rule of thumb", but that sounds wrong, for some reason :}

b3ta's latest weekly glee just arrived in my mailbox. Utterly fun as usual. If Australia's is a "nation of trees/drab green and desolate grey", then Britain's a nation of disgruntled programmers, I think. I smell esoteric poetry filk. gnarf gnarf gnarf...

[the__seeker]

i dont want to know why you need link 3...

[sopraltotude]

The Improv Everywhere (No Pants Day) group has a Brisbane "chapter" on the global site. There's a group at http://groups.google.com/group/improfusion/. They're planning something for this Sunday, apparently.

[sesquipedeviant]

neat!
i popped over to subscribe to it, but of course, my usual google-linked address is my work address. So i nearly sent an email about No Pants Day to the P&C. erm, have to fix that.