Trigger Happy: roleplaying in a World Which Hates You. — Caias Ward is running a gaming Kickstarter.
Terminal Illness: Readers’ Best and Worst Airports — In which my opinion of the Newark airport is quoted.
When oversharing online can get you arrested
Startup uBiome Will Catalog Your Microbes, Again and Again
Illegal loggers continue to threaten Amazonian tribe
When Dinner Has a Gleam in Its Eye — China's economic boom is driving a culinary revival, as chefs rediscover dishes that haven?t been seen for decades. (Via Dad.)
Fish’s DNA May Explain How Fins Turned to Feet
Opalized wood — Petrified wood is basically fossilized wood that has had it’s organic matter replaced by a mineral such as agate, bit by bit, as it decomposes. The wood structure is maintained, but the wood fibers are slowly changed into stone. Sometimes a jasper, quartz, pyrite or even opal(shown above) can be found fossilized in wood. Wow. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)
Super Storm Sandy Produced Tiny Vibrations in Earth’s Crust
Dust over the Four Corners Region — My pareidolia caused me to see this as a cowboy waving his hat, even before I realized what region of the world the orbital photograph covers.
Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain — An easy-to-use EEG cap could expand the number of ways to interact with your mobile devices.
Small Government: Texas Fertilizer Plant that blew up not inspected for years — The Texas fertilizer plant that suffered a massive explosion had not been subject to an OSHA inspection for many years. The current American obsession with deregulation and ending inspections has claimed yet more victims, as The Nation shows. And Texas has also cut funding for first responders like firemen. See? The Republican party is right. Regulation is bad for business, and taxes to pay for things like fire departments are an evil theft of your hard-earned money. Too bad about all those dead people, but at least they died for conservative principles.
Conservative radio host: Families of Newtown shooting victims can ‘go to hell’ — Ah, compassionate conservatism intersects with the measured, rational tenor of the American gun culture. You guys must be so proud of yourselves.
QotD?: Ow?
4/19/2013
Writing time yesterday: 4.0 hours (60 minutes and 1,600 words on Original Destiny, Manifest Sin, plus 30 minutes of WRPA to produce 1,100 words of nonfiction, and 2.5 hours of Reddit interviewing)
Hours slept: 7.5 hours (solid)
Body movement: 0.0 hours (injured foot)
Weight: n/a (couldn't stand on scale due to injured foot)
Number of FEMA troops on my block checking the magazine sizes of gun owners: 0
Currently reading: The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett