links for 2008-01-15

Overheard in New York | The United Nations, Encapsulated “They have been underestimating my power for quite some time now.” (tags: silly blogs) SFFWorld 2007 Best Reads Review (Part 1) A discussion of the best in fantasy last year. (tags: books literature SF review) SFFWorld Best Reads 2007 (Part II) – Page 1 of 4… Continue reading links for 2008-01-15

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Google-Bomb the Debates

Steinn offers an excellent suggestion, after noticing that CNN is soliciting debate questions from random people on the Internet: Keith over at NASAwatch suggested his reader swamp it with NASA policy questions to try to get one into the actual debate. Scienceblog readers could do the same – send in a lot of good, coherent,… Continue reading Google-Bomb the Debates

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Memo to ESPN

Yo, E! (Do you mind if I call you E?) I’d like to draw your attention to an item on your web page: NY Giants 21, Dallas Cowboys 17. Yeah, shocking as it may seem, the Giants won that game. Go figure. Hey, it surprised me, and I’m a Giants fan! Still, in light of… Continue reading Memo to ESPN

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The Clinton Conundrum

I’ve seen a lot of people linking to this exhaustive recounting of Chris Matthews’s unhealthy fixation on Hillary Clinton, which leads off with a great quote from this firedoglake post: I do not care which person is your candidate. I don’t care what you think of Hillary Clinton as a potential president. What is being… Continue reading The Clinton Conundrum

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links for 2008-01-14

Just Science 2008 » Just Science 2008 People blogging about nothing but science, Feb. 4-8. (tags: blogs science) Fantasy and Science Fiction: Fiction A Nebula-nominated story, available online. Yet another thing I’ll read in my copious free time. (tags: space stories books) Prisoner’s lawsuit says it was too easy to escape – Los Angeles Times… Continue reading links for 2008-01-14

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Book Report: Polishing and Waiting

I’m sitting on the couch, watching tv, when the dog comes in. “Hey, dude, what ever happened with that book, anyway?” “What book?” I ask, distractedly. “The one about me. What other book would I be asking about?” “Oh, yeah. I sent the first draft off to my editor and a bunch of other people,… Continue reading Book Report: Polishing and Waiting

Saturday Football

So, how much does it suck to be David Garrard? He was 22-for-33 for 278 yards, with two touchdowns and only one interception, an excellent performance by any normal standard, but he was the second-best quarterback in the game. Tom Brady was 26-for-28, 262 yards, three TD’s, no interceptions. And one of the incompletions was… Continue reading Saturday Football

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