{"id":4039,"date":"2009-09-02T07:34:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T07:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/02\/links-for-2009-09-02\/"},"modified":"2009-09-02T07:34:19","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T07:34:19","slug":"links-for-2009-09-02","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/02\/links-for-2009-09-02\/","title":{"rendered":"Links for 2009-09-02"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pimpmynovel.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/self-publishing-great-idea-or-worst.html\">Pimp My Novel: Self-Publishing: Great Idea&#8230; or Worst Idea Ever?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Very occasionally, a self-published novel will be something that was somehow overlooked by the publishing industry as a whole and is actually quite good and\/or salable. 99%+ of the time, however, these books are either written by the functionally illiterate, are tangled messes of inane plot and one-dimensional characters, do not appeal to the vast majority of readers, are way too long or way too short, or some combination of all of these. In short, most self-published novels are crap.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/books\">books<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/publishing\">publishing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/writing\">writing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/business\">business<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/pimp-novel\">pimp-novel<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/blogs\">blogs<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2009-09\/danl-hsg090109.php\">Hydrogen storage gets new hope<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;Los Alamos researchers have been working with University of Alabama colleagues on developing methods for the efficient recycling of ammonia borane. The research team made a breakthrough when it discovered that a specific form of dehydrogenated fuel, called polyborazylene, could be recycled with relative ease using modest energy input. This development is a significant step toward using ammonia borane as a possible energy carrier for transportation purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This research represents a breakthrough in the field of hydrogen storage and has significant practical applications,&#8221; said Dr. Gene Peterson, leader of the Chemistry Division at Los Alamos. &#8220;The chemistry is new and innovative, and the research team is to be commended on this excellent achievement.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/energy\">energy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/materials\">materials<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/chemistry\">chemistry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/news\">news<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/09\/01\/a-tip-for-students-interested-in-law-school\/\">A Tip for Students Interested in Law School | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;A new study looks at the average LSAT scores of students with different undergraduate majors, sometimes grouping related fields together to gather a statistically significant sample. (Via.) And the best scores were attained by students studying: &#8220;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/academia\">academia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/law\">law<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/physics\">physics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/math\">math<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longestpoemintheworld.com\/\">The Longest Poem in the World<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;on the computer and eating\/ At the rod and gun club meeting\/ There&#8217;s a manic that loose and she&#8217;s wearing my skin&#8230;\/ Just checked my lotto numbers and I did not win. :(\/ OUT AND ABOUT TODAY\/ Forever and a day\/ goin the pool and then mall today. gonna have fun!!\/ If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?\/ we are all one and the same\/ Go back and finish the game!\/ eating a steak and playing poker..\/ another day older and broker.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/poetry\">poetry<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/art\">art<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/language\">language<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/silly\">silly<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/01\/opinion\/01krauss.html?_r=1&amp;hp\">Op-Ed Contributor &#8211; A One-Way Ticket to Mars &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;The shielding necessary to ensure the astronauts do not get a lethal dose of solar radiation on a round trip to Mars may very well make the spacecraft so heavy that the amount of fuel needed becomes prohibitive.<\/p>\n<p>There is, however, a way to surmount this problem while reducing the cost and technical requirements, but it demands that we ask this vexing question: Why are we so interested in bringing the Mars astronauts home again?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/science\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/space\">space<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/technology\">technology<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/planets\">planets<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/orzelc\/mars\">mars<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pimp My Novel: Self-Publishing: Great Idea&#8230; or Worst Idea Ever? &#8220;Very occasionally, a self-published novel will be something that was somehow overlooked by the publishing industry as a whole and is actually quite good and\/or salable. 99%+ of the time, however, these books are either written by the functionally illiterate, are tangled messes of inane&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/09\/02\/links-for-2009-09-02\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links for 2009-09-02<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_dump","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}