[links] Link salad heads into the daylight, blinking
Don't forget the steampunk caption contest voting poll
A reader reacts to Green — Definitely did not like it.
Cthulhu's Reign reviewed — Including my story "Such Bright and Risen Madness in Our Names".
Judge a Book by Its Cover — The proverbial blog... A Softer World weighs in.
The Art of the Exhale — Cancer, coping and horses. (Via
joycemocha.)
The Power Trip — Power corrupts. Absolute power is pretty nest. A piece on why nice people become sociopaths once they reach the top. (Via Scrivener's Error.)
Vintage lunch boxes — There was a Kill Bill lunch box? Really?
Shenango of Fairport: 1909 — Look at that prop...
1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack — Duuuude.
Disgust As a Guide to Morality — Interesting. I don't agree with it all, and am especially troubled by this line: Though Haidt is a secular liberal, he cautions that you can't just say that moral judgments made by drawing on the other three areas -- Purity, Authority, and Loyalty -- are illegitimate, unless you're willing to privilege the point of view of secular Western liberals, and write off most of the human race.. Still, interesting.
Kilpatrickism — On the racist strain in American conservatism.
?otD: Where did you go? What did you do when you got there?
8/18/2010
Writing time yesterday: 2.5 hours (revisions, WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 4.25 (sleep fail!)
This morning's weigh-in: 242.2
Yesterday's chemo stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
A reader reacts to Green — Definitely did not like it.
Cthulhu's Reign reviewed — Including my story "Such Bright and Risen Madness in Our Names".
Judge a Book by Its Cover — The proverbial blog... A Softer World weighs in.
The Art of the Exhale — Cancer, coping and horses. (Via
The Power Trip — Power corrupts. Absolute power is pretty nest. A piece on why nice people become sociopaths once they reach the top. (Via Scrivener's Error.)
Vintage lunch boxes — There was a Kill Bill lunch box? Really?
Shenango of Fairport: 1909 — Look at that prop...
1978 Cryptosystem Resists Quantum Attack — Duuuude.
Disgust As a Guide to Morality — Interesting. I don't agree with it all, and am especially troubled by this line: Though Haidt is a secular liberal, he cautions that you can't just say that moral judgments made by drawing on the other three areas -- Purity, Authority, and Loyalty -- are illegitimate, unless you're willing to privilege the point of view of secular Western liberals, and write off most of the human race.. Still, interesting.
Kilpatrickism — On the racist strain in American conservatism.
?otD: Where did you go? What did you do when you got there?
8/18/2010
Writing time yesterday: 2.5 hours (revisions, WRPA)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 4.25 (sleep fail!)
This morning's weigh-in: 242.2
Yesterday's chemo stress index: 3/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)