Category: Links Dump

con_or_bust: Con or Bust NOW taking requests for July-September cons! “Con or Bust is pleased to announce that as of this very moment, and through May 31, fans of color/non-white fans may request assistance to attend SFF cons in July, August, and September 2011. Because there was no advance notice that we’d be taking requests,… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-22

SLR Camera Simulator | Simulates a digital SLR camera “Practice using an SLR camera… Experiment with the lighting, ISO, aperture, shutter, and distance settings while observing the readings in the camera viewfinder Click the “Snap photo!” button Review your photo!” (tags: technology pictures internet computing) Astrogator’s Logs » Blog Archive » Area 51: Teen Commies… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-21

A career as editor « the Node “In 1993-4, I went on the job market, looking at standard faculty positions. I received some offers, including one from Vanderbilt University, where I am now. But I was resisting accepting a position, and some friends – who were also on the job market at the time –… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-20

News: What They Are Really Typing – Inside Higher Ed “The authors of two recent studies of laptops and classroom learning decided that relying on student and professor testimony would not do. They decided instead to spy on students. In one study, a St. John’s University law professor hired research assistants to peek over students’… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-19

Book View Cafe – Exordium 01, by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge “Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons with a touch of the Three Stooges. With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-18

Generalist’s Work, Day 5 « Easily Distracted “In humanistic writing, I’m struck by the sometimes uncomfortable mixing of a romanticist vision of authorship with the value of scholarship as a collaborative, collective and accumulative enterprise. In peer review, tenure review, grant applications and other venues where we set the benchmark for what counts as excellence,… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-17

Beta Readers: Best Practices » Inkpunks “The author-beta relationship is a strange one. The author exposes a vulnerable, still-in-the-works thing to the beta, a fleshy little newborn fiction coated in soft bits. The author is pleased. The author thinks this is an Excellent Thing which they are giving to the beta. The beta takes this… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-16

Against Craft « Booklife “”Craft” today is not a counter to the Romantic vision of an artistic elite chosen by the Divine, it is a quasi-proletarian flinch often designed to protect one’s work from being compared to art, thus protecting it (and one’s ego) from its near-inevitable failure to stack up to the idea of… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-14

Writing About Science, and Liking It. In the Pipeline: “I remember William Rusher, who used to publish National Review, writing about how he had to tell a colleague that “there is no concept so simple that I can fail to understand it when presented as a graph”. That made me feel the two cultures divide,… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-13

Atomic clock is smallest on the market – physicsworld.com “Researchers in the US have developed the world’s smallest commercial atomic clock. Known as the SA.45s Chip Size Atomic Clock (CSAC), it could be yours for just $1500. The clock, initially developed for military use, is about the size of a matchbox, weighs about 35 grams and… Continue reading Links for 2011-05-12