Category: Links Dump

LOLSaints | Saints with a Smile Even religious iconography can be improved by strategic misspelled text. (tags: religion blogs culture silly pictures art history) Making Light: Flash of insight: swift, blinding, pointless “Saints were the Pokémon of the Middle Ages.” (tags: history culture art religion television games kid-stuff silly making-light) Flickr Photo Download: Mythical Creatures… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-31

slacktivist: Vincible GooFiness “Set aside the edges of the bell curve — the innocent fools and the diabolical Becks and Limbaughs and the rest of their kind. The vast, vincible middle is constituted of people who, like the GooFies, are to some degree simultaneously innocent victims and deliberate charlatans, simultaneously deceived and deceiver. They don’t… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-29

Roger Ebert’s Journal: Archives “In my case, I haven’t taken a drink for 30 years, and this is God’s truth: Since the first A.A. meeting I attended, I have never wanted to. Since surgery in July of 2006 I have literally not been able to drink at all. Unless I go insane and start pouring… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-28

Why Our Analemma Looks like a Figure 8 : Starts With A Bang “We got a good number of thoughtful comments, many of which are on the right track, and many of which have some misconceptions. Let’s clear them up, and then let’s give you the explanation of what gives us our figure 8, and… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-27

News: Flu and Football Season – Inside Higher Ed “Personally, I don’t see any major college or professional sporting events being canceled as a result of H1N1,” said Bronson Hilliard, a spokesman for the University of Colorado at Boulder, where eight probable cases of the virus have recently been identified. “Right now, the virus is… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-26

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Making Lists: Mindblowing SF by Women and People of Color “[S]ince someone always finds a way to claim that they just don’t know where to find such or who the women and/or people of color writing in the genre are, I hope that this list… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-25

Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Goodbye, Dortmunder: Donald Westlake’s Get Real “There couldn’t really be a conclusion to these books — what could it possibly be? The gang will just keep on forever looking for one more job to keep them going. The regulars in OJs will keep on having… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-23, 2009-08-24

Dan Brown tops Oxfam’s chart of most-donated books | Books | The Guardian “But as secondhand bookshop shelves flood with battered editions of Angels and Demons and Digital Fortress, Brown can comfort himself with the fact that he’s also Oxfam’s second most bought author: there are, apparently, still readers out there who have yet to… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-22

Liberal Arts Rankings – Best Colleges – Education – US News and World Report The annual clown show begins anew. Williams is #1, Union #43, for those who care. (tags: academia education silly us-news) Francis Collins’ “Five Themes” for the NIH : Respectful Insolence “In the end, I don’t give the proverbial rodential posterior what… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-21

Cosmological Gravitational Radiation : Dynamics of Cats Steinn explains what the LIGO null results mean (tags: science astronomy cosmology blogs cat-dynamics) PaulCornell.com: Thirty Comics for Hugo Voters “The Hugo Awards for 2009 are going to be presented at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September next year. The Best Graphic Story category is… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-20