Interesting Links for 07-08-2017

[andrewducker]

A brief history of quantum alternatives (tags: quantum history ) Neil Gaiman talks about writers’ humility, bygone bestsellers, memory loss, heroes and being exactly famous enough (tags: neilgaiman interview ) Government debt per capita for European countries (tags: debt Europe visualisation ) In Conversation: Trent Reznor (tags: music

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[anna_wing]

Someone commenting on the original Middle-eath mountains article remarked that the Carpathians in Europe produce an angle quite similar to those of Mordor. Anyway, natural forces in Middle-earth are sentient and can act independently.

https://www.eea.europa.eu/soer/countries/hu/nature-protection-and-biodiversity-state/bd4.jpg/view

My cats have identification microchips implanted in them, which is fine. However I saw on-line that American companies want to do it to their staff, so I am not at all sure that the future the author of that article expects is going to be that fun.

[fub]

I'd love to do a course on 'geography for fantasy map makers'. I mean, I can (and do!) make fantasy maps, but somehow they never seem 'real' to me. I blame my lack of geo-physical knowledge, and I'd love to remedy that.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that would be awesome.

[fub]

One of the comments pointed to an article on Creating Plausible Maps, which I will read and then read all the related articles and then, maybe, I will try to make another map and see where that takes me.

[andrewducker]

When you've got there write up your experience!