• Location: Nuevo Rancho Lake
• Mood: Sundayish
• Music: me awake too early

[links] Link salad for a Sunday

A rather mixed review of Mainspring [ Powell's | Amazon | Audible ] — I suspect this reviewer would fundamentally agree with johnnyeponymous's assessment that the book "hit a wall somewhere in the middle."

Carol Pinchevsky on nepotism — In which yours truly is quoted.

tbclone47 with an update on Rainforest Writers Village

McSweeney's on the dangers of email — Stupid funny. (Thanks to willyumtx.)

"Verbing Weirds Language"

APOD with an eclipse of the sun by Jupiter, as viewed from Galileo

The relationship between hygiene and allergies

The word processor poll

The "beef" caption contest voting poll