OMG and Link Salad, Pre-Windycon Edition
I'm going to Windycon this weekend, and tomorrow's a bank holiday, so this is probably the last post for the week. (My schedule at the con is here.)
On the "OMG" front, I saw Rick Perry's brain freeze at the debate last night. Now, as a writer who forgets his characters' names, I sympathize with the man. On the other hand, write it down! He had notes, and I saw him look at them. Make a cheat sheet, dude! For a more in-depth overview of the debate, including the Cargo Cult Of The Sacred Free Market, see Charles P. Pierce.
Moving on, here's a few links for the long weekend:
1) John Scalzi says everything that needs to be said about the Penn State pedophile scandal. I agree completely with his comments.
2) On the pirate front, the maritime insurance companies are creating a private navy to hunt pirates. Something very similar happens in the sequel to Pirates of Mars.
3) The White House officially announces they are not hiding evidence of ETs, but they would, of course.
4) More evidence that we don't understand our own digestive systems - GI Specialists Suspect Specific Carbohydrates May Cause Painful Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
5) A serious look at a not-so-serious problem - Seven scientific reasons a zombie outbreak would fail rather quickly.
On the "OMG" front, I saw Rick Perry's brain freeze at the debate last night. Now, as a writer who forgets his characters' names, I sympathize with the man. On the other hand, write it down! He had notes, and I saw him look at them. Make a cheat sheet, dude! For a more in-depth overview of the debate, including the Cargo Cult Of The Sacred Free Market, see Charles P. Pierce.
Moving on, here's a few links for the long weekend:
1) John Scalzi says everything that needs to be said about the Penn State pedophile scandal. I agree completely with his comments.
2) On the pirate front, the maritime insurance companies are creating a private navy to hunt pirates. Something very similar happens in the sequel to Pirates of Mars.
3) The White House officially announces they are not hiding evidence of ETs, but they would, of course.
4) More evidence that we don't understand our own digestive systems - GI Specialists Suspect Specific Carbohydrates May Cause Painful Symptoms of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
5) A serious look at a not-so-serious problem - Seven scientific reasons a zombie outbreak would fail rather quickly.