Category: Links Dump

Axe Cop He’s a cop, with an axe. His partner is a cop with a flute– no, a dinosaur soldier– no, an avocado. Can you tell this was written by a five-year-old? (tags: comics silly internet art kid-stuff) Malkin Grey’s LiveJournal – Why Writers Go Nuts, Exhibit Number One Million and Something. “Speaking as both… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-31

The Mid-Majority : Assistant Palestra Custodian for a Day “I presented my credentials. “I’m non-union, I work hard and I work for free,” I told Dan. Usually, that gets me in the door every time. But not here. “Well, you’d better be pro-union,” Dan replied. I assured him that my profession had no real national… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-30

Physics Games – online physics-based games Just in case you were planning to get something done today. (tags: games physics science education internet computing) J.D. Salinger Dead « Whatever “Somewhere Holden Caulfield is pretending he doesn’t care.” (tags: books literature news blogs) Best Science Books 2009: The top books of the year! : Confessions of… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-29

Resolving the Red Controversy? : Starts With A Bang “Earlier this week, I introduced you to the Red Controversy, the observations recorded around 2000 years ago in Europe asserting that the star, Sirius, appeared red. Now, taking a look at Sirius today, it is clearly not red: And, based on what we know about stars,… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-28

Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source “Along with Bunting’s remarks, the Science Channel issued a statement claiming that it currently airs more than 150 programming hours that are tangentially, and often laughably, related to science, and that staff members are unable to bring themselves… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-27

Physics Buzz: A Star Class is Born “Scientists have proposed that there is a new, exotic type of star living in our universe that we haven’t seen yet. The so-called “electroweak stars”, if they exist, will be difficult to detect because they mostly emit neutrino’s – subatomic particles which, for the most part, don’t interact… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-26

The American Spectator : Osama bin Elvis “Seven years after Osama bin Laden’s last verifiable appearance among the living, there is more evidence for Elvis’s presence among us than for his. Hence there is reason to ask whether the paradigm of Osama bin Laden as terrorism’s deus ex machina and of al Qaeda as the… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-25

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Neglected Books: the list “So, I asked for recommendations for neglected books and authors and had an overwhelming response. I’m going to make the results into a useful reading list, in alphabetical order, with links, and usefully divided. The world is a very big place… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-23

Creation | Film | Review | The A.V. Club “Creation contains some vivid illustrations of evolutionary theory, and some intriguing consideration of what Darwin had to overcome to achieve greatness–in particular, his fear of disappointing his family. But for the most part, Creation is Biopic 101, earnest and over-explained. It’s the kind of movie in… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-22

arXiv.org help – arXiv Support FAQ “This FAQ addresses questions raised in response to Cornell University Library’s work to develop a diversified funding model to support arXiv. In a nutshell: We are working with peer libraries to investigate voluntary contributions from institutions that are the heaviest users of arXiv. “ (tags: science publishing funding academia)… Continue reading Links for 2010-01-21