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Behind the Jet-Propelled Couch: Pretty interesting speculation.

Palonis, Estelle V. English (ca 8-45) [13 l.] [re language problems]: "Particularly in the Social Sciences, it was difficult to counteract the obvious fact that we had not abided by the rules of the game in our treatment of the Nisei."

odvr - Google Code: For when the voice recorder arrives

Russia: New Russian law ends jury trials for 'crimes against state' - Los Angeles Times: Russia disappoints once more; more of a dictatorship than some places the US has invaded to "spread freedom"

Obsidian Wings: Andy Olmsted: Now that I've watched B5, Olmsted's quotes and pseudonym mean more

paisleychick: Looking back and looking forward: a HUGE year for Kragen and Beatrice

GCU Dancer on the Midway - Myers-Briggs corrective pills: Rachel Chalmers, you might enjoy these more than I

soupablog: Franciscan Retreat Blogpost 3.01 - Friday, Saturday, Sunday: remembering the retreat

soupablog: Franciscan Retreat Blogpost 2.01 - Friday June 6, 2008: remembering the retreat

soupablog: SoupBold, the first experimental Soupablog Typeface for sale. $5: BOLD!

boilerplate:

I don't know how to solve your problem, but you should be able to get help by requesting help in the ubuntu project.

You can see if anyone has a similar question, and if not, ask your question, here: https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+questions

There you'll get quicker and more precise help for your problem.

Leonard

http://ideo.com/culture/career/engagement-designer-transformation-practice/: via Mel

http://notetoself.vrensk.com/tag/certificate-authorities/: For the every-one-in-a-while email from someone who can't use Ruby code I wrote that makes HTTPS requests

Stacey's Bookstore closing down in S.F.: This physically hurts.

http://www.pe-international.com: recommended by CCarrick

Jobs, News, Emerging Growth Companies, Startups, Venture Capital, Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin: recommended by CCarrick

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/barcampboston/message/848: Boston's BarCamp in 2009 is in April

Daily Sci-Fi Webcomic: Starslip Crisis by Kris Straub - Archive » Starslip: ... ...

AMC » The Prisoner Classic Series 1967 - 68: watch full eps of Prisoner free

http://stevenpoole.net/trigger-happy/working-for-the-man/: Leonard, wanna check this out?

Brutal Women: How to Get an Insurance Claim Expedited (Without Cutting Off Anybody's Head): reminder

Brandon Bird, Painter of Might: New Year's Steals: Brandon Bird sale till the 15th

Call for Participation » Grace Hopper Celebration 2009: reminder to self: prep polisci lecture for Grace Hopper?

Legerdemain » Overview: Instead of Game Roundup, it's Game Dump Into Del.icio.us

Privateer: Ascii Sector - The Official Website: I like the "Fire Upon the Deep"-ish implication that different parts of the universe have different graphical resolutions

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup : And I should try this one again too.

http://www.jauntsetter.com/archive/travel_deals: For Sumana, who knows the way

AudioGames, your resource for audiogames, games for the blind, games for the visually impaired!: Queens of the Stone Age presents "Games For The Deaf"

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Young_Lord_Hamlet.jpg: Yorick bearing Hamlet on his back, as per the speech

Knowyourmoney - Weirdest Taxes of All Time: best reddit link of the year

: The whole process is fraught with peril because you're creating little simalcra of people and passing them off as real individuals.

Goozex - Trade video games for Sony Playstation 3, PS2, Microsoft Xbox 360, PC, Nintendo Wii, Gamecube, PSP, DS, GBA, Dreamcast, Mac - Your game trading community: I never knew this existed, thanks Adam.

Orange Pan-glazed Tempeh Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: Glaze that sucker!

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=179844: "It is a metronome."

http://wealhtheow.livejournal.com/275837.html: autarky!

Schneier on Security: New Police Computer System Impeding Arrests: When usability has chronic and serious effects

idea backlog | Glorious Trainwrecks: List of Kirk's unstarted game ideas.

Cookie Madness » Cookie Madness Top 10 Cookie List: When the madness strikes

gbadev.org :: View topic - Animanatee: This is supposedly really fun

SourceForge.net: News: new version of letrain, the ascii train simulator: Pushing the boundaries of what might conceivably be considered a roguelike

welcome to SITE!!!: When I need kitch but the subway isn't running

Paper Golem: Novellas solicited

http://globalgamejam.org/sites/test-location: yay test data

http://shineanthology.wordpress.com/outshine-submission-guidelines/: I guess I can submit stuff here instead of using it as a Crummy title

STARCADE!: Scores from different arcade games aren't additive! Fun show though. Also, the host keeps asking the contestants how they feel, which gets creepy.

Plugged In : NKeppol: pretty diagram

Brain Harvest » Submit: Fun attitude, but their story length is much shorter than what I write

http://prestostrangeo.wordpress.com/submission-guidelines/: Another fun-sounding one, terrible rates though

It Came From Airport Security - CC Wiki: But where's the download link?

Shiny Happy Users by Eric Drewski, Kevin Godby, Trent Grover, Elena Maximova, Michael Oren, Derrick Parkhurst, Janea Triplett, Valerie Williams (Book) in Computers & Internet: to brush up on IA

http://www.inkoinkinc.com/: good pay rate, 5k word limit

: Apparently "Surender" is a legitimate Indian name.

I've got the poorly written lab report blues || kuro5hin.org: Reading lab reports = reading slush.

Software Developers | Black Duck Software: Pretty awesome!

Should we hire academics who are parents? — Crooked Timber: Substitute "tech startups" for "academe"?

http://www.nyredcross.org/page.php/prmID/71: Per Making Light encouragements, I should take a first aid class

The Echo Nest Blog: cool

CompassPoint: Ana-rec'd

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage: evidently I should meet her

Dev House Boston wiki: not happening anytime soon?

http://www.pecha-kucha.org/: Brett Stillwell is involved; rec'd by Mako/sj

A Page about Freemasonry: Pointers: Masonry for Women: shoulda known

http://training.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/bbst: Mel-recommended

things magazine - because you're worth it: for Leonard

Catfishing - Dutch philosophers and Dutch educationists?: I had no idea

FOSSwire » Speed up your system by avoiding the swap file: Worth a try.

valhenson: Disabling the touchpad while typing: Things I never realized would help me

Derek Powazek - Unsolicited Advice is a Valuable Clue: Thanks, Derek, for offering me a more neutral way to hear otherwise maddening unsolicited advice

WNYC - Now Hear This: Flansburgh hosts a music show

NASA - Self Portrait : Wow, digital cameras do work in space.

YouTube - The "Oasis" Music Video - From "Who Killed Amanda Palmer": So this is what the Dresden Dolls frontwoman is up to now. What a song.

youcanhelp [Bkrpr Wiki] : Another reason to learn Python

Brutal Women: Insurance PTSD: that voice is in me too

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Underwear protest at India attack: Argh! Karnataka!

Lorem Ipsum: Darths and Droids: to check out

Some Quick Notes on Approaching a Single Day Consultancy: (the explicit): Approach 3 reminds me of my wish that we'd share jokes on Diversity Day

Sony PRS-505 Reader eBook Reviewed (Verdict: Better, If Barely) - Boing Boing Gadgets : on Wuthering Heights

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=11323: totally

Kung Fu Monkey: Waid Wednesdays #10: The Job of the Comic Book Editor: lessons for Sumana the editor - get out of the way, offer solutions, don't just add would-be-cool

ATTACKERMAN » Chaos Or Community : Reap the bounty, Sumana!

Trader Joe's FAQ.: hilarious

Susan Senator: Susan's Blog: Suffering From Dimension: on liminality, going through an experience and making it 3D

Clark And Michael: like the Face of the Enemy webisodes, something to watch when I'm bored

http://blog.build.kiva.org/2009/02/03/introducing-the-kiva-api/: Read-only, but cool

Consafo Publishing: preorder

Lorem Ipsum: Blazoning: so THAT'S what that is

http://www.mikebrotherton.com/diamonds/?page_id=4: yay web-based scifi anthologies

: call 718-956-8291 for those apts

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/home/faqs: awesome!

Apex Book Company » Slush Lessons: Soon to come: Leonard's & Sumana's slush lessons for narrative

ccfinlay.com - extras : Leonard, have you seen this funny CC Finlay stuff?

Creative Commons Science-Fiction [Feedbooks.com]: We'll add Thoughtcrime Experiments to this list, I hope

Saturday's walk: while listening to Moxy Fruvous's "you can't be too careful."

Twitter / Pablo Defendini: No sooner do I step into T ...: me!

Let's Push Things Forward - Continent 4: check!: starburst

Welcome Robot Sea Monsters: early REST thinking

footnotes: Leonard tends to dislike primary sources in fiction, but how about *citations* of primary sources?

ccfinlay: Powerboy's Last Adventure: best superhero subversion I've read in a while

Video Game Lies: We will catalogue your lies on an international network designed for the propagation of lies!

flycon2009 - Community Profile: Leonard, we're editors and authors! Should we participate?

Cogita Tute - Think For Yourself: Wave nature of light demonstrated by hand: Can't get it to work DAMMIT

Twilio: Twilio REST Web Service Interface: "To make a call, you perform an HTTP POST to your Calls list resource" Looking good.

Suvudu Free Book Library - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games: oooh, Red Mars!

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / New Online Fiction for March: There is so much good free online fiction!

http://pculture.org/devblogs/mirotesting/: can i get set up and submit a bug today? or at least do some tests?

FSF annual meeting -- Libre Planet 2009 conference - Free Software Foundation: Leonard, mayhap we could/should go to this?

Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language: Firefox now has a Kannada release!

Escape Velocity - The Magazine of Science Fact and Fiction: Leonard, to consider

http://rhho.no.sapo.pt/consolas/Ti%2099%204A%20Multi%20Board%20Interface.JPG: Possibly the best brand name ever

The Echo Nest : The Musical Brain: I'm about 60% sure I'll never look at this again, but someone else might realy need it

http://csunplugged.org/: to check out -- CS thinking activities

In a City Filled With Lawyers, Many Immigrants Fight Deportation Alone - NYTimes.com: These workers need to know about AltLaw

Fighting the Derail Since March 2009 - Wiscon fundraiser: request assistance here: maybe I can help

Timothy’s Turkish, but that hasn’t been mentioned either « By Erin Ptah: I should probably post and include this line

Digger by Ursula Vernon » Archive » Digger: to read

Internet Archive: Details: I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: Whee.

dykestowatchoutfor.com » Blog Archive » out with the old: Alison Bechdel thanks Ganesha for helping her declutter

http://www.ftrain.com/baltimore_conversion.html: in 2003 this piece moved me to tears and fanmail

http://lls-mutant.livejournal.com/225486.html: to read in lieu of watching the finale at the same time as everyone else

signs of [crazy]: an asl interpretation - Truveo Video Search: tremendous, artful, "but is it fair use?" via von Lohmann

The importance of stupidity in scientific research -- Schwartz 121 (11): 1771 -- Journal of Cell Science: Do would-be scientists get hung up more on envying their peers' skills/knowledge, or on the massive pile of ignorance we all share?

Hugh Laurie — Crooked Timber: I'm partway there!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident: As the SF Chron article asks: how creepy do you want it?

Waiter Rant » Blog Archive » Fear and Loneliness in Las Vegas: the emotional intelligence to self-interrogate after strong or inappropriate feelings or behavior

DreadWhimsy.: hilarious

Forever's Not So Long: unexpectedly touching and memorable

An Evening With the Twelve Colonies by Elizabeth Kiem - The Morning News: they cut the cold cuts into octagons!

sputter sputter « style over substance: the rhyme-engine and dormant skill

Fallen Heroes by Eric Feezell - The Morning News: about two thousand exclamation points in there, but worth it

Open For Questions: should I?

From "Herovit's World":

Damn it, it there was one way to kill a sale in this field it was to let a word like "ambivalence" slip into a final draft along with words like "subtlety" or "intimation" or "foreshadow" or "coalesce" or "tits."

RIGHTRIDES PROGRAMS: I had no idea I was eligible for this!

Indie RPG List: When RPG... go indie! This fall on CBS.

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Greg Manchess painting <em>Canticle</em> by Ken Scholes: beautiful: the craft of visual art

Bitch Ph.D.: nice!

http://www.nyu.edu/ipk/events/event.php?id=50: ANOTHER interesting thing happening Monday!

Dallas police chief apologizes for conduct of officer who drew gun on NFL player outside hospital | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Latest News : via ta-nehisi coates. Especially note the giant SUBMISSIVE sign the driver hangs on himself once he realizes the cop is hell-bent on being a jerk

Heidi, Geek Girl Detective: fairly addictive

Bliggity Blog by Ingrid Michaelson - it's like watching a monkey learn how to open a jar.: "I love you?"

http://yurisnight.net/: April 4th AND 12th in NYC

Free Fiction : Federations: to read!

Ancient Geeks' Dies: gotta tell Hal and Adi about this

http://beatonna.livejournal.com/82660.html: Rami from Project Runway, witness Kate Beaton's draperie

"I'm actually going to talk to people who consider themselves White writers.": useful tips

starkeymonster's forcluelesswhitepeople Bookmarks on Delicious: meta-deliciousing!

shwetambari on deviantART: shweta art!

http://transcriptase.org/ : want to read these

Positions on Race in Fiction 101: final grades: wanted letter grades? you got 'em

Think GalactiCon Main Page: to contribute, even if I can't go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_Insurrection_of_1898: my blood runs cold

WLA?! | Weekender: There's the week, the weekend, and the weekender!

Ineligible Bachelors: Indian Men Living in U.S. Strike Out - WSJ.com: Yet another market I sidestepped

http://www.ac-mag.com/submission.html: Another market

on friends and trolls: translation: "I will say racist things and resist if you critique them."

http://video.google.com/googleplex.html: not just the tech talks

Twitter / Steven Frank: Super Bowl Viewers: Lookin ...: clipboards at the ready

The Invasion from Outer Space: Fiction: The New Yorker: not bad for New Yorker scifi

YouTube - Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego: ludicrously overblown and gratuitously orchestrated? SILENCE

Mark's journal - I want a transcriber: how close are we?

Lorem Ipsum: Backstory: different tastes in scifi protagonists

http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/07/24/labor-struggle-in-a-free-market/: "And I believe that when workers fully realize the potential of the incomplete labor contract, and become as willing to exploit it as the bosses have all these years, we’ll mop the floor with their asses. And we can do it in a free market, without any “help” from the NLRB. Let the bosses beg for help."

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/21/handcranked-fujitsu.html: haunting dystopian scifi in an unexpected place

GCU Dancer on the Midway - Pullman, plots and stories: God, The Plot, stories, fanfic

yatima: fell off: "...feeling the years and years of riding behind me - the teenage bolting around like a lunatic and learning how to land on my feet, the years in my twenties.... As if those years weren't wasted after all; as if all is not lost." see: me & customer service

Tom the Dancing Bug | Salon Comics: you can sing "brain in a beaker" to the tune of "smoke on the water"

Hark, a vagrant archive: Yay! Kate Beaton has archives by category!!!!

BART - Seen and heard on BART this week: Banjo, butterflies, found keys, sweat and despair : bart.gov used Beatrice Murch's photo on their homepage!!

http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/howto-crack-rar-7z-and-zip-files-with.html: Can't imagine why I'd need this, but it's a useful thing to know about

Mugabe Aides Are Said to Use Violence to Gain Amnesty - NYTimes.com: talk about wrong

: Death to subtext!

Bread and Circuits » Open Source, pre-1945: a reminder of why I'm glad I'm about to start my new job

[Telepathy] ANNOUNCE: telepathy-gabble 0.7.26 : only you!

Linux.com :: How to get a Windows tax refund: may try to do this for new laptop

ACKs that need replacing:

Baladitya and Yashodharma
Mahabharata 1-volume
Kesari the Flying Thief
Shankar Dev
Jakata Tales: Stories of Wisdom
Rajbala
Krishna and Jarashandha
The Learned Pandit and other tales told by Ramakrishna
Jataka Tales: Nandi Vishala and other stories
Panchatantra: The Brahman and the Goat and other Stories
Tinkle: Tales of Humour

TAXES! Books Sumana needs to read and asked for from the SFPL at one point:

cusk, rachel: the lucky ones
perrotta, tom: little children
ricardo, david: principles of political economy and ...
mccall smith, r. a: heavenly date and other flirtations
rushkoff, douglas: nothing sacred: the truth about ju...
kelly, dean m: why churches should not pay taxes
seligman, edwin ribert anderson: essays in taxation
adams, charles: for good and evil: the impact of t...
dennet, daniel clement: conversion and the poll tax in earl...
morrow, james: bible stories for adults
sigafoos, robert alan: the municipal income tax: its history
mccall smith, r. a.: the full cupboard of lif
?: tax policy in the real world (336.2 T1993)
shlaes, amity: the greedy hand: how taxes drive a...

Installing Ubuntu 8.04 with full disk encryption « YC’s playground: This was quite helpful.

A Glossary of Terms Useful in Critiquing Science Fiction: Useful in conjunction with other such sources. I especially appreciated "rubber science"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalosaurus#.22Scrotum_humanum.22: Steven Colbert's favorite dinosaur

YouTube - Sheena Easton-Almost over you: I was warned about this and it was still hilariously bizarre. I HUNGER for your touch!

: Pi-aversary: june 11 (party june 12th?)

Covered: For Sumana. Just mine this for commissioned art.

Fundraising — A Privacy Plugin for Movable Type : go go Byrne Reese

FutureMe.org: and don't gain those 90 pounds back either: Last Christmas

FutureMe.org: Gudday from a younger you: I like how he refers to past & future selves together as "us"

Future Me: the war in Iraq: dark

Asparagus Stir-Fry Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: For the "tagged food" cookbook

Basic Chocolate Cake Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: For the "tagged food" cookbook

http://vikiworks.com/2007/08/24/a-nice-pullquote/: First attempt at using pullquotes for Thoughtcrime Experiments

What if Oracle bought Sun Microsystems? | Developer World - InfoWorld: too early for analysis, but here's predictions from a speculation!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/04/20/What-Makes-the-United-States-Special/: jesus yes

pandagon.net - review of Pledged: why would the nat'l force conformist reorgs on offbeat instances of the franchise? because admin officials are the ones who LOVE the old ways & old people-pool, & new/diff people contaminate that. cf marriagestuff

FON: Leonard, you want to get involved?

BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook users say yes to changes: the ever-present threat of BBC tech coverage graphics

MkzdK: Gaia's strange and seedlike brood: A-ha.

YouTube - breakthrutv's Channel: paolo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_common_surnames: Rachel touts this as an invaluable resource for writing

Daisy Owl - Movie Night: one of my favorite Daisy Owls

Daisy Owl - Hey Now: there are not enough Smashmouth references in my webcomics? Daisy Owl remedies that

http://www.google.com/search?q="christ+at+the+united+nations": I'm intrigued, but this supposedly 'popular chromo' seems entirely fictional

MYDD! « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week: Simulataneously more and less confrontational than "it works, bitches"

Bad Subjects: The West Wing and Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Voyager: comes up in Leonard's wishes re tng

: "We can't have anarchy! Someone might start a government!"

Symbols.com - Symbol 54:44: When Zeus was a sports car.

Candle Cove - Ichor Falls: Creepy horror piece by Kris Straub

M Chabon on The Mysteries of Berkeley: for the next edition of There Was Light

rants.org » Blog Archive » CiviCRM Saves the Day: I should blog about this so my nonprofit friends know about it

YouTube - Joss Whedon singing DVD commentary to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Alternate lyrics!

Hivelogic - An Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation: Step n to Leonard & me turning insufferable

http://www.ncm.com/FathomContent/PDF/This-American-Life-Encore-Theatres.pdf: 3 theaters in NYC

YouTube - Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith: "Beat It" by Michael Jackson: actually fantastic

World Fantasy Award Judges: to check in a few months for submission info

Frequently Asked Questions | The Nebula Awards: do the sending dance

The Theodore Sturgeon Award: why not

hugo_recommend - Community Profile: again, why not

http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=5: Locus, a progress report ad, reviewer sites & zines

Steve Minutillo :: messy-78 » Communist Logic: colleagues might enjoy this

gtrout: Today's Thing That Is Crazy: we got off our asses and did something, and amazing things happened

Retief of the CDT Page: At last, Retief fan fiction

[Debian-NYC] GPG keysigning party on Friday's get-together : will probably attend tonight

World Privacy Forum: Medical Identity Theft Consumer Tips : Medical ID theft is "the information crime that can kill you"

Flickr: "sethschoen": yay pictures of Seth!

Project Euler: to register

http://www.slate.com/id/2217905/: YAY

fine lines - Jezebel: evidently there are a few redeeming pockets in the Gawker empire

The Singularity Sucks: What's currently out there: In which we are punk rock.

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/thoughtcrime-experiments/: Erica Naone is reviewing the anthology in detail

Shhhh. Your secretes safe with me. Discretion comes 2nd. After you. - m4w: "discrete" accidentally used correctly

Twitter / Jordan Hamessley: Dear Orson Scott Card, I d ...: burn

mumbling_sage: Hurt, Angry, and Afraid: ten years younger

Classic Video Games - Digital Press: This is the place in NJ, 1 hour bus ride from Port Authority

: Decent Shirin the Wanderer password in case I'm ever in a position to carE:

vx3dg c537 c8d6f
52kmd 852p lt9hn
yn9q7 2j7c gf517
js37p jknc pjq20

http://clarkbw.net/blog/2009/05/14/negotiate-with-your-users/: via danny

Silence and the Word - Mohanraj: Such a good piece

http://fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Yoursky: Thanks for making it easy to get trivial details about the future right.

Terra Prime (episode) - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki: archer's speech

pfenixwings: The streamers of my heart...: great phrase: "rubbing smooth my memories of what we'd already done"

pfenixwings: Let me be really clear.: interesting articulation: "I have this marvelous experience, this huge beautiful easy experience... and then I have to find a way to integrate its memory and its absence in my life, hopefully without falling into my patterns of disengagement and stoicism."

Running Cliches Through The Cuisinart: o, how we wax and wane

Letters -- Published June 4, 2009 | Recordnet.com: oh, stockton

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Something old, something new?: note to self re Joe, Jed, Jo, Zack, & Abi as sensitive, empathy-focused usability geeks

SeeLight: How Do Editors Reach Out to Writers of Color?: In case we ever repeat the anthology experiment: reach out to nonwhite authors!

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Comments Written By Actual Students Extracted From Workshopped Manuscripts at a Major University.: Remembering writing critiques

http://www.shortcovers.com/shortcovers/Computer-Virus/sc-dnOyEsMEDUqlmL7rqoJEGg/page1.html#1: new nancy kress!

lcohen: thoughts on lesbians and science and stories: on necessary narratives

Think GalactiCon Registration: Should I consider going?

Venturesome - Think Galacticon 2009 Pre-registration ends soon!: enticing

Fantasy Book Critic: An Overview of Indian Speculative Fiction by Mihir Wanchoo: to add some folks to

Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code: "go silent when screen is down" sounds awesome

Scattershot, Desperate, and Sleazy | n+1: on craiglist you speak desire; on nerve you say who you are

Loving every moment - Sepia Mutiny: yup, my marriage would have been against the law

http://www.amptoons.com/blog/archives/2009/06/16/why-not-to-use-the-word-lame-i-think-im-starting-to-get-it/#comment-365760: links to alternatives

Enough Already: an article by Mark Edmundson about what he'd like to tell the bores in his life | The American Scholar: on me

The Left and the Living Dead | The American Prospect: "if you're a zombie lover, this is the time to be alive." Arguably. "This one goes out to all you zombies."

http://www.tommcmahon.net/2005/05/world_premiere_.html: "We at the Library cannot confirm or deny that it is President Ford in that cover."

Calvin & Hobbes fanfic (Teen Susie & Calvin slash): via vito_excalibur, and SO INCREDIBLY GOOD. Moving and sexy and aching.

Discussion on a possible interstellar polycultural setting: on a realistic milieu of extraterrestrials

Robotic Tendencies » On contributing to Gaim…: what not to do as a FLOSS maintainer

Rainbow Cake and Unicorns « A Merrier World: aka Prismatic Sphere: The Cake

The Women Of McSweeneys.net - The Rumpus.net: for when i need to laugh heartily

Strange Horizons Fiction: Another End of the Empire, by Tim Pratt: fun short fantasy piece about a dark lord who's read the "when I am a dark lord I will not..." list

Recycle This - Creative ideas for reusing and recycling random stuff: looking for a way to recycle broken kitchenware

The strange nakedness of Mark Sanford | Salon : captures some of my feelings about the guy

Geeks in Boston » Working from Home: Why It Sucks: yup.

The Syrian Goddess Index: The worshippers of the Syrian Goddess show up (and are slandered) in "The Golden Ass"

http://fileserv.polter.pl/Wywiad_z_Peterem_Wattsem_wersja_angielska.pdf?direct: oooh! meaty Peter Watts talk

Local Girlfriend Always Wants To Do Stuff | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: fairly chilling!

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Gay sex decriminalised in India: Yay! What will emerge from this?

Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: Identity Theft: yet more noir? may read

Bitch Ph.D.: list of criteria there - scary

Fiction: Alien Animal Encounters, by John Scalzi: silly alien animal stories

Ruins of the Second Gilded Age - The New York Times > Magazine > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 13: Possibly the first boom in history to create ghost towns that were never occupied to begin with

http://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org/395780.html: !

Symbols.com - Symbol 30:6: Hobo sign for "These people have no grounded electrical sockets"

Video Game Stats: Nintendo Power Charts - NES Index: Amazing, thorough work--should be in a spreadsheet.

: Story idea: "The Man Ray". Using the method of loci to remember where a number of boxes are in the room. The people blur and move away like a station at which the train does not stop.

: Near the end of the Wasyounger, people stockpiled paper by printing useless shit on one side and hiding it in binders.

Snice: vegetetarian restaurant in west village

Savchenko, "Success Algorithm". Bakhnov, "Cheap Sale"

Anthony van Dyck: Portraif of Francois Langlois

ITV Sherlock Holmes

Ben Johnson = Seth Schoen

EXPERIMENTAL MEME: DO NOT CREDIT

YouTube - Auto-Step the News #5: loves, combined

Galactic Arms Race (GAR): Not your everyday shooter

http://www.fungift.ro/magazin-online-cadouri/Dino-fight-poza-t-P-n-Dino%20Fight%20barbat%20260.jpg: Cute drawing, but not quite what I'm looking for

http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/Main_Page: All these little devices are so neat!

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html: Silverbite me.

Dingoo Digital A320 | The unofficial english support site: And here's the site for the device I have in real life

The Game Crafter - Your game REALIZED - Home: I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that a new day is dawning.

Next step in pirating: Faking a company - The New York Times: Well, another way to look at it was they decided to start their own electronics company and steal the name, rather than setting up some kind of shadow corporation

Academic Earth - The Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1845-1877: I've heard great things about these lectures

The Science Studio > Facts, values and a place for the profound: There's also a lot of videos here

Carrot Cake Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: Whereas here there is only cake.

http://www.deliciousdays.com/archives/2009/05/19/15-minutes-to-fame-gnocchi-for-beginners-and-braggarts/: And here, gnocchi

Big Sur Bakery Hide Bread Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: We also got some bread here.

Beyond Ramen: Who are those angels, and why are they singing in my kitchen?: Actually not a bad spread here in the hoary netherworld--brownies too!

Exclusive Leisure Time Electronics and Toy & Hobby World raw archive: 1980 - 1981 | Armchair Arcade: Time for another episode of "coming to terms with the fact that there's cool stuff i'll probably never look at"

Previously On: Prime Time Serials and the Mechanics of Memory « Just TV: from weinman's blog

Amigan Software: ACAR & PAU Scans: Of the making of Amiga magazines there is no end

http://www.ponoko.com/: We Extrude Your Object

Space Flight Awareness: The USSR's "Silver Laika" award was not as prestigous.

Geek Stuff 4 U - For Geeks By Geeks NES Controller Type Card Case : Wow, just like Shinya Arino's!

kisrael.com | enough with the making of sense already! : reminds me of Jakey B

While !Finished » #EAFail Link Roundup: link roundup in eafail

Evil Robot Conference: Sept 12

Stefan’s micro Star Trek fleet is ready to make first contact with the Borg | The Brothers Brick | LEGO Blog: Oh yeah.

WillPowder - Specialty Powders and Spices from Chef Will Goldfarb: MADNESS

WIllequipped by Chef Will Goldfarb: Judging from that description I believe this catalog copy has never seen a lawyer's eyes.

Video: Dining at an aerobanquet of Futurist food | Art and design | guardian.co.uk : Before "Ninja New York", there was Futurism.

Aca-speak: Pretty sure I've used these

Students Pay Services to Obtain Internships - NYTimes.com: remind me to never trust C. Mason Gates

All of Creation | COSMOS magazine: At last, someone who writes SF about trilobites (though he has yet to steal my idea for the Red Lobster Trilobite Special)

Shiren the Wanderer 2 Translation - GBAtemp.net: Shiren 1 is one of my all-time favorite roguelikes.

The Limits Of Our Dialogue On Race And Beyond - Ta-Nehisi Coates : "It'd be as if our thoughts of sexism revolved strictly around honor-killings and rape. Perhaps they do."

http://www.spqrsf.com/: What an odd name for a restaurant! (Admittedly an Italian restaurant.)

Peculiar Voyage: Escape from Cute: Some homebrew to check out

Right Whale Aerial Surveys: When Coleman Francis goes whale watching

SeeLight: Geek Post: Why Voyager Rocked: maybe I should give later ST:Voyager another try

Gef the Talking Mongoose | Futility Closet: This is mentioned in chapter 23 of Olaf Stapledon's "Sirius"

The Curious Cook - The Curious Cook - Keeping Berries Fresh - NYTimes.com: This seems to work as advertised.

Personism » Blog Archive » List of Women Speakers for Your Conference: if GeekSpeakr is too limited

http://www.bryen.com/taking-stock-of-it-all/: on family

http://community.livejournal.com/vidding/1993598.html: vidding recommendations

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legendary_creatures_in_Japanese_mythology: "Ritual disciplinary demon!"

A Whole Lotta Nothing: Julie and Julia: via scott rosenberg

T Lo Saw Julie & Julia | Tom and Lorenzo - The #1 Project Runway Blog: via scott rosenberg

zwol: grar, sound on linux still sucks: get my gstreamer colleagues on this?

http://twitter.com/levarburton/status/3682136999: My brain breaks.

My piece for BusinessWeek.com is live. Join the debate on performance reviews! : thinking for work

Motivation – you’re doing it wrong : to think about for work

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/363892: The dell-3stack thing worked for me, still no skype though

RobotLovesKitty.com: Hmm. HMM

Simira's sewing services: Karianne's sewing in the UK

daily / links for 2009-07-05: hey, someone liked it

http://www.jasonkolb.com/weblog/2009/09/why-google-wave-is-the-coolest-thing-since-sliced-bread.html: I want Leonard to comment on this

http://gwolf.org/blog/toast-turing: to Turing

http://chrisglass.com/journal/images/2006/0820-make-it-work-shirt.gif: anthemic

Derek Powazek - How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half: brother!

Why I don’t like “Non-Commercial” licenses « Nina Paley’s Blog: to consider

Luis Villa’s Blog / pathetic, part II: ouch re zeitgeist

FS#5863 : Banshee library import fails to load files: There must be some legal plausible-deniability reason behind the fact that I had this problem in 2009 and the same fix worked

Trollart: Whorl Tooth Shark 3: Ha!

Send Music to WFMU: Leonaaaaaaaaard

Weirdly Beautiful Spacecraft Models - Photo Gallery, 18 Pictures - LIFE: Who cares where they come down?

xubingdotcom: Yeah, it's great

: "We don't refer to things as 'linty fresh' very often."

The Fake Shack (or the Shack Burger at Home) | Serious Eats : Recipes: Only marginally simpler than other recipes that painstakingly reproduce institutional cooking at home

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Requiem_for_Homo_Sapiens: Seems like some quality worldbuilding

The Trouble With Aliens Index Page: Terrible Baen cover, supposedly good fiction

Old-Fashioned Blueberry Cake Recipe - 101 Cookbooks: For those who love molasses

The Invisible Traceback: blockers that make potential contributors drop out (and how to fix them) | Ontario [GNU] Linux Fest 2009: "new contributor on-ramp pipeline is particularly tricky to debug; potential participants often struggle in silence"

Making a John Q Public account on Google: 'please help me create a fictional identity for use in my job'

Interprete » Biella’s Guide to PR: Memorable Events, Monumental Caves: "I first went on this very trip when I was 16 and it was one of those momentous, memorable events that struck like lightening."

Interprete » Code is Speech: Legal Tinkering, Expertise, and Protest among Free and Open Source Software Developers: "...developers reconfigure central tenets of the liberal tradition—and the meanings of both freedom and speech—to defend against efforts to constrain their productive autonomy..."

The SALLY FORTH Dude Analyzes Television: "Part of my own ambiguous attitude to serials is that I think they can sometimes privilege plot mechanics over the creation of individual moments"

» Tidying Up the Law VoxPopuLII: Stuart Sierra on law as prose rather than code: "Imagine the economic value of knowing, with mathematical certainty, exactly what the law is." & some IA/CS thoughts

vanilla_pride: Badges.That's where the future lies. Bad: "No dancing round the subject of whether they have a large collection of significant others and merely wish to add one, as they were only missing a grey haired grumpy bastard to complete the set."

Susan Senator: Susan's Blog: Given You Children, Milked the Cow: aww

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/15/sonia-sotomayor-pop-culture-maven/ : the comments include people speculating so as to make Perry Mason's always-losing prosecutor opponent not quite such a failure

how many roads? « style over substance: "Tomorrow I will go to the church and the library. And something else will happen, the day after that."

Everyone matters.: Get out there & tell your story.

diogenes club: LOL: It gets fairly insane.

Where does the moon come from? Or, Launch Pad day 5 : Freedom to look stupid leads to getting smarter, part 1.

Making Light: Permission to suck: Freedom to look stupid leads to getting smarter, part 2.

pandagon.net: on romance novels: women learn to objectify ourselves -- thoughts

Accessing RESTful information efficiently « Labix Blog: I have opinions on this but, objectively speaking, not the time to formulate them

TASCHEN Books: Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities: One day I will own this again.

http://www.isso.cornell.edu/ithacalife/us1.php: To help me understand myself

Ninth Annual MIAAC Film Festival - November 11-15, 2009: Indian film festival in NYC in Nov

SUN: forty years of mentoring: mentoring works, if it's systematic

Call For Participation | fosdem.org: a month left to submit most talks to FOSDEM 2010 (Brussels)

October 2009: Nell Scovell on David Letterman | vanityfair.com: via maevele on dw. How are Colbert/Daily Show different?

Essay - What to Write Next - Picking a Genre for Your Next Novel - NYTimes.com: Hilarious.

BookFinder.com: Search Results (Matching Books): This looks to be the cheapest I can get that edition of LOTR.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001YKCIN2/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used: This looks better.

What MP3 player should I buy? - Boing Boing: Perhaps Sumana might find profit in reading the comments

Story Generator - TV Tropes : I guess it's concievable someone could use TV Tropes to *make progress* on their writing

The Flying Trilobite Reproduction Shop: Maybe i'll order a print of this later...

Interview: Justin Barwick of Dingoo | Bytejacker: Revealed!

Retrospace: The Match Game 1977 School Riot: Probably the most interesting 5 minutes of television from 1977.

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=58286: "Sleeping Betty" is as good as any early Warner Bros. cartoon

Momofuku's Ginger Scallion Noodles - The Amateur Gourmet: Looks delicious, and simple!

Cannelle et Vanille: Pumpkin and Hazelnut Doughnuts and a Clafoutis: Delicious, and complicated!

Symbols.com - Symbol 42:93: According to my sources, the best symbol ever

Online papers on consciousness: OK, probably never gonna read these, but thanks for aggregating them!

OverClocked ReMix - Video Game Music Community: Indeterminate numbers of game music remixes.

Rupa MFA dt thesis blog: Rupa DasGupta's MFA blog - she's going to use eye-tracking technology to investigate & reveal the male gaze, partially as internalized by women

Official Google Blog: Finding the laws that govern us: How does this affect AltLaw's mission and scope?

MediaShift Idea Lab . How Do We Categorize All Journalistic Errors? | PBS: towards an ontology of journalistic error

[M]etabrain [E]ntry [L]og » Blog Archive » The Invisible Traceback: "blockers that make potential contributors drop out (and how to fix them)" looking forward to the transcript

How do I deal with information? — A non-tech Zeitgeist background « Another ugly blaaahg: "The history items in my web browser are just as important as a random file on my computer! So are my chat logs, my future and past tasks in my preferred task manager, my search history..."

HPLA - "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" by H. P. Lovecraft: Chilling!

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200911/ditaa_diagrams_through_ascii_art.html: new diagramming tool to try

Block building echoes from memory… « effiejayx’s blog: I should write about Seth

http://www.gnome.org/~federico/docs/summer-of-code-mentoring-howto/: not too hard to generalize this into a "how to mentor an intern"

I thought I was the only one | MetaFilter: That needs a coaster under it.

YouTube - bobtwcatlanta's Channel : This person is amazing.

http://blogmaker.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/release/README.html: If I'm thinking about redoing NB I should look at the alternatives

Douches Follow Me (douchesFollowMe) on Twitter: Hilarity

Helen Bailey, Farhad Manjoo - Weddings and Celebrations - NYTimes.com: someone I know, in the Times Weddings.

Gingerbread Pancakes with Candied Ginger | Baking Bites: I should just post every entry from this weblog to my delicious feed.

Easy Homemade Eggnog (uncooked) | Baking Bites: See what I mean?

Deliciously Organic: Also awesome

VIVA VENA CAVA: SPA CASTLE: Karl and Winnie gave us a gift certificate for this place, which turns out to be much much weirder than I thought.

100 days in Glacier National Park: A fun project for a beautiful park

Honey Pecan Tart | Baking Bites: You thought I was done!

Pumpkin and Chocolate Layer Cake | Baking Bites: Still not done. (I might be done now.)

http://www.nintendopower.com/images/NP250_DLmega.jpg: Kris, our "Cotton Man" gag comic has become reality.

Ursula K. Le Guin: A Left-Handed Commencement Address: jawdropping

Help Lift Sex Ed to a Higher Plane: Support Scarleteen! | Scarleteen: Scarleteen is many teens' only reliable source of sex ed info

Charity Navigator - Suggest a Charity: If your favorite 501(c)3 isn't listed in Charity Navigator, you can suggest it for their evaluation

Happy holidays from Gmail: awww, dreidel instructions!

Anacrusis › Senji: “You’re beginning an argument that leads into a distrust of all information from your senses,” says Senji.

Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git - Boing Boing : Leonard uses Tiddlywiki for worldcreation; I'd be curious whether any authors are now using Flashbake

http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=9247: Yay Mountain Goats fannishness

Colorful Junk. In the Pipeline: : on astronomy & gunk

More on T2, and Degrees. In the Pipeline: : "And what experience gives you, among other things, is a sense of knowing what needs to be worried about."

Real Electrons. In the Pipeline: : "As always, I react to these things with interest, excitement, and a tiny bit of terror at seeing something that I assumed would always be hidden."

Roman Polanski — Crooked Timber: cutting, hasn't dulled with age

Industrial Research: More Grounded in Reality, or Not?. In the Pipeline: : sunk-cost fallacy, metrics-driven perverse incentives, mistaking easy for right, bandwagon

All the World's a Ractive: by Julia - a Diamond Age ending

The Elephant Forgets - Summary: Strange Horizons, 2009: "Even funnier" than Tim Pratt's story!

Jane Silber to take over as Canonical CEO: new Canonical CEO: Jane Silber

Two Children Teasing a Cat | Annibale Carracci | All | European Paintings | Collection Database | Works of Art | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: DO NOT WANT

Damian Kulash and Kermit the Frog: Meeting Kermit is like meeting a god. A really friendly god.

How To Be A Beta Tester With Maemo Extras-Testing | Maemo-Guru.com: todo?

The best, bar none | The San Diego Union-Tribune: Even more brownie recipes

Pass the Popcorn. In the Pipeline: : Leonard: book & movie recommendations based on realistic depictions of research chemistry!

Gingerbread Layer Cake with Meyer Lemon Frosting | Baking Bites: This turned out great

YouTube - Batman Parody: The Dark Knight is Confused. Key of Awesome #8. : via Jed. Batman is confused about the plot of the Dark Knight. Spot-on, funny, lovely touches, especially Alfred's first couplet to the Joker.

Black Oak store reopens across town: Apress cofounder Gary Cornell resurrects Black Oak Books

http://kattekrab.net/polenta-scoffins: polenta = yum

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/467877: workaround mentioned here fixed my problem

"Pet Project": Does anyone else remember this surprisingly good Rob Malda SF story? I can't find it online anywhere.

soc - Project Hosting on Google Code: possible to use Melange to keep interns' FLOSS contributions visible & monitor progress?

Rands In Repose: The Words You Wear: Ouch.

Twitter / rands: Why yes, I can listen to t ...: *Sumana guiltily raises hand

Is it just me, or is it obvious to everyone that iPods...: 7.5 yrs later, it's obvious to everyone

"Coverage in Philadelphia has been good....": "A big man with a big hurt, [Mike Daisey] sucker punches the newsy macabre in the face..." Probably my favorite phrase of the year.

http://www.stormyscorner.com/2009/11/best-gifts-for-traveling-geeks-we-need-your-help.html: What did you get & love this year? Post a comment

Schneier on Security: How Smart are Islamic Terrorists?: transferrable insights

Redefining Property: Lessons from American History | QuestionCopyright.org: points reader to http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28148/28148-h/28148-h.htm - proslavery arguments

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