Interesting Links for 16-01-2017

[andrewducker]

Self-Driving Cars Will Produce a Very Different Auto Industry (tags: automation cars transport driving ) There's going to be an illustrated Earthsea omnibus released in 2018 I read the whole of Earthsea a couple of years ago, and am now looking forward to a re-read.
(tags: fantasy writing GoodNews ) Gates Foundation research can’t be published in

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[bart_calendar]

At this point I view Sherlock as simply one long ad designed to put a mediocre actor into many, many roles he's unsuited for in ongoing successful franchises.

[danieldwilliam]

Which actor are you thinking of?

[bart_calendar]

It's strange, but I can't remember. What a marvel.

[danieldwilliam]

Moffat will do that to a person.

[momentsmusicaux]

Nooooooooooooooooooo not fucking Charles Vess!

First, he's kinda twee in his style.
Second, he clearly DOESN'T READ THE FUCKING TEXT.
Exhibit A: in Stardust, the text describes an 8-foot-high wall. In the illustration, it's knee height.

[skington]

Ursula Le Guin just managed to get her most recent illustrator to finally paint Ged and others with dark skin like she described in the books, so I expect her to at least make sure that there's no backsliding there.

[momentsmusicaux]

I'm not optimistic...

[murasaki_1966]

See Ms Le Guin's blog

http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Blog2016.html and scroll down past the (admittely) cute cat photos to 116. The Big Book of Earthsea.

[mlknchz]

But today is a holiday in the US....how can that be bad?

[kalimac]

I stopped watching Sherlock after two episodes of the first set, and I take it I'm not missing much.

[skington]

The writing in the middle episode of the first two series was quite terrible. (As I recall episode 2 of season 1 was also rather unfortunately racist.) The Gatiss- and especially Moffat-written episodes were much better.

Later seasons have been somewhat a victim of the first seasons' success, needing to top the previous stories, often with a bigger budget and more explosions.

[skington]

What's this word "medæval"? We say "medieval" now, don't we?