Category: Links Dump

Jason Gay: Recreational Sports: It’s Not Mortal Combat – WSJ.com "Everybody who plays a sport for fun has encountered a Serious Guy (or a Serious Girl). A Serious Guy turns 3-on-3 into a curse-filled nightmare. A Serious Guy makes backyard badminton feel like tax preparation, and elevates meaningless Wiffle ball into Game 7. A Serious… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-19

What is journalism worth? "What is journalism worth? That’s the question journalism managers and entrepreneurs have been trying to figure out ever since it became clear, years ago, that the Internet was disrupting local publishing monopolies. And so we’ve endured years of conference panels, email exchanges, and blog posts about paywalls and paid content strategies,… Continue reading Links for 2011-07-18

Is Rick Perry a ‘sucker,’ or was he just lying? | slacktivist "Maybe he really believed that. Maybe the single example of “stifling regulations” that he chose for his stump speech was some wild rumor that, despite being a state governor, he never bothered to check into or to have an aide check into. Maybe… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-17

Welcome to the Fall Semester | Wired Science | Wired.com "Sharpen your pencils and charge your laptops. It is time for the next semester to start. How about some tips to those that will be involved. Yes, I am talking to you. All of you." The Only Time the Conservative Politicians Ignore Warren Buffett «… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-16

Bill Kirchen and Friends: Folsom Pinball Blues – YouTube "Bill Kirchen and whole collection of talent at SoHo in Santa Barbara, CA doing a delicate combination of Folsom Prison Blues and Pinball Wizard." Takraw: Thai Soccer – Thailand – YouTube This would be so much cooler to have on tv than baseball or preseason NFL… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-15

THE “Don’t Miss” Volume? | Tor.com "In the 1995 Hugos thread, Womzilla asked what was THE don’t-miss novel of Bujold’s Vorkosigan series. There has been much interesting discussion in the thread of the idea of a series novel winning the Hugo and specifically of which Bujold to read first, but I think the whole question… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-14

“Black And Blue” | Homicide: Life On The Street | TV Club | TV | The A.V. Club "Andre Braugher’s Pembleton is fiery and mercurial and theatrical, and he works so fast that it’s as if he thought that extracting false police confessions was a category recognized by the Guinness Book Of World Records. First,… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-13

Your Picks: Top 100 Science Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR The usual mix of "pretty good" and "utterly preposterous" selections. Exposing a Fake Video Trick | Wired Science | Wired.com "You know I love videos that may or may not be fake. It gets me pumped up. Ok, here is a video. It is almost… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-12

I watched every Coen brothers movie. – By David Haglund – Slate Magazine "My opinion changed later–not of each of those films (not entirely), but of the Coens’ work as a whole. Before coming to that reversal, though, I think it’s worth sitting for a moment with that earlier reaction. A lot of moviegoers, and… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-11

PhD thesis delight | Turning mirrors "In the beginning vast public funding created heavenly lab-space on earth. Now the labs were formless and empty and the spirited physicists were contemplating over their future experiments. And they said let there be light and they built a grating stabilised external cavity diode laser. And they said let… Continue reading Links for 2011-08-10