Salon Futura features a video interview with me —
cherylmmorgan and I did this at the Worldcon in Melbourne.Photos and video on a 102-year-old lens — This is some cool stuff. Video is worth watching. (Via Gizmodo.)
High court hang-ups — I haven't the slightest idea if this is real or a spoof, but it's awfully funny in either case. (Thanks to
willyumtx.)Europa's Hidden Ice Chemistry — Cool space science. (Nicked from
james_nicoll.)The Post-Singularity Future Of Astronomy — Astronomy could be the first discipline in which the rate of discovery by machines outpaces humans' ability to interpret it.
Assessing Beck and Hannity — Ed Brayton on the Right's talking heads. He also says some interesting things about O'Reilly.
Your tax receipt — In case you were wondering where the money goes. (Via
garyomaha.)Environmental campaigners axe gory film — Environmental campaigners 10:10 have withdrawn a film showing a teacher graphically exploding two of her students who refuse to reduce their carbon emissions, after complaints. Um, yeah.
ericjamesstone first brought this to my attention, pointing out that I frequently claim that liberals don't use eliminationst rhetoric, yet here is a film with an eliminationist message. I'll argue that this was obviously satire (and even as such, inappropriate), rather than the apparently serious "get the liberals" messaging emanating daily from conservative media, but fundamentally he's right. Satire or not, the liberal-progressive world is better than this.Fear and Favor — Paul Krugman on Tea Party finances and the payrolling of candidates. But look! Over there! George Soros!
The Very Useful Idiocy of Christine O'Donnell — Frank Rich focuses on similar themes. Personally, I find the O'Donnell candidacy mind-boggling. It's a badly broken electoral process that produces candidates like her. Even by conservative standards, she's a severely underqualified loon.
Tennessee County's Subscription-Based Firefighters Watch As Family Home Burns Down — Welcome to conservative America. If you vote Republican or are a Tea Partier, this is exactly what you stand for. You can have this future, but please keep it the hell away from me.
?otD: Are you missing any internal organs?
10/5/2010
Writing time yesterday: 1 hour
Body movement: 40 minute suburban walk
Hours slept: 6.75 hours (solid)
This morning's weigh-in: 238.4
Yesterday's chemo/post-op stress index: 3/10 (post-op pain, fatigue, peripheral neuropathy)
Currently (re)reading: The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger