Category: Links Dump

Bowing to the Future: Just for the record… “It takes a bit of work to make a decent ebook. I’ve been overseeing the conversion of the Pyr backlist for two months now, so I know. I’ve also bought about 15 ebooks in the last two weeks on iBooks, and I’m sorry to say that I… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-13

What if editors got royalties? – Hey, There’s A Dead Guy in the Living Room So okay, publishing is risky no matter the paradigm. But what if, rather than a traditional publishing house glomming most of the risk into one big beach ball, each participant in the publishing process took ownership of his/her own little… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-12

Among the Assisterati: Bottoms Up with the Highbrow Bottom Feeders | The New York Observer “For six weeks, at a cost of $7,000, Columbia University offers recent college graduates forgettable workshops, fleeting encounters with important editors and access to the best unlisted job openings in book publishing and magazines. After swift job placement, these hyper-literate… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-11

When Lew Alcindor defeated Scott Ostler at Pauley “The UCLA freshman team featured Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Lucius Allen and three other prep All-Americans. In a game to open the new Pauley Pavilion, UCLA’s frosh beat the varsity by 15. The varsity was coming off back-to-back national championships and was ranked No. 1 in… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-10

How Much Could the Real Floating House Lift? | Wired Science | Wired.com “The internet is all pumped up over this real floating house recreating the scene from Up! (the movie). Here is a video: Or perhaps you prefer some pictures. Here is a website full of pictures. here is the deal. National Geographic has some… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-09

syracuse.com : Upstate NY schools bear the brunt of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s cuts “Syosset is nearly 3 1/2 times wealthier than West Genesee. It spent $25,990 per pupil in 2008-09, compared to West Genesee’s $13,854. And that disparity is likely to grow under Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget. The governor’s school aid cuts would equal… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-08

How bad is the Templeton Foundation? : Thoughts from Kansas “This is the consistent pattern in [Sunny] Bains’s story [about the Templeton Foundation]. The problem is not that her conclusions are demonstrably wrong – she may well be right about Templeton, and she may even have gathered evidence which would support her conclusions. But the… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-07

The man who went nuclear: How Ernest Rutherford ushered in the atomic age – Science, News – The Independent “Rutherford regarded “all science as either physics or stamp collecting” but saw the funny side when he received the 1908 Nobel prize for chemistry for this seminal work. By then he was in Manchester. “Youthful, energetic,… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-04

Gnome Physics – Cap’n Refsmmat’s Blog of Doom “All subatomic particles — electrons, protons, neutrons and so on — are composed of extremely small gnomes. While relatively unknown, the gnome theory of matter can successfully explain many physical phenomena, including gravitation, electromagnetism, the photoelectric effect, and the wavelike properties of matter.” (tags: science physics silly… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-03

Charlie Sheen Quotes Cats « Medium Large “Because turnaround is fair play…or some nonsense like that.” (tags: internet silly culture television movies pictures) Neil Tyson’s Advice to Young Science Communicators | The Intersection | Discover Magazine “So in graduate school, I wrote a question and answer column for StarDate magazine, out of the University of… Continue reading Links for 2011-03-02