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[links] Link salad from long, long ago

Review: 'Hugo' is a cabinet of wonders — CNN on Hugo, which I highly recommend to all of you.

SFFWRTCHT 1 Year Anniversary Show Giveaway

10 easy (but awesome) DIY Star Wars crafts projects — An R2D2 dreidel. Really? (Thanks, I think, to my brother.)

Cancer’s Escape RoutesScientists are beginning to discover myriad strategies tumors use to avoid attacks by anti-cancer drugs. Yeah, well. That's why I had to have a second round of chemo.

Kodak's long fade to black

What’s in a Name? Ask Google

As Water Levels Drop, Texas Drought Reveals Secrets of the Deep — Interesting. (Thanks to Dad.)

Terraforming: Enter the ‘Shell World’

Nano Paint Could Make Airplanes Invisible to Radar

Air Force Extends Secret Space Plane’s Mysterious Mission

The American-Western European Values Gap — From the Pew Research Center. (Via [info]danjite.)

Obama Gun Control Policy: President Stays Virtually Silent On Issue — You really have to wonder why the "Obama is coming for our guns" meme has so much traction among the GOP base. It's not connected to reality in any way, shape or form.

The World According To Cain — The Cain campaign's foreign policy document is laughable. I realize that the GOP thrives on low information voters, but low information candidates? Is that really a good idea? And speaking of low information candidates, Michele Bachman says she would close the US embassy in Iran. Uh, hasn't been one those in over thirty years. Hello? GOP presidential field? This is the reality-based community calling...

Reporter's Notebook: The Rise and Fall of the real Herman Cain

?otd: How far, far away is your galaxy?




12/5/2011
Writing time yesterday: 0.0 hours (chemo fatigue)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 8.5 (fitful)
Weight: 212.6
Currently (re)reading: Memory by Lois McMaster Bujold

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