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Jay Lake
Date: 2013-02-20 04:38
Subject: [links] Link salad is filing its nails while they're dragging the lake
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The Year’s Best Science Fiction #29 edited by Gardner DozoisSF Signal reviews YBSF 29, including my 2012 Sunspin novelette “A Long Walk Home".

The Phillip Pirages YouTube channel — Deep antique book neepery for extreme bibliophiles. (Via [info]threeoutside.)

Should you keep copies of your medical records?

Report: No added hysterectomy benefit with robotics — Headline of the week.

Thunderstone: What People Thought About Meteorites Before Modern Astronomy — Mmm, sky iron.

Saturn's Hexagon and Rings — Such a photo…

Interstellar Expansion: Colonizing Ice Dwarfs

Finding the Higgs? Good news. Finding its mass? Not so good."Fireballs of doom" from a quantum phase change would wipe out present Universe.

Is Evolution Now Predictable?

WTF, evolution? — Weird nature. Hahahah! (Via [info]threeoutside.)

'Mole mastermind' sought for 'perfect' Brussels diamond heist — Behold the Underminer!

Brain Scans Can Predict Your Political IdeologyWhether you pulled the lever for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney may reflect how your brain copes with risk, new research finds. What I don't understand is why Romeny's campaign wad considered low risk. He was Bush-lite, and Bush was the worst president in modern history: destroying the economy, ballooning the deficit, dragging us into trillion dollar wars of choice under knowingly false pretenses, etc. About the most risky thing Obama has done is try to make sure more Americans have access to healthcare. Admittedly, something conservatives have stood squarely against, but their position on the ACA also increases both personal and social risk.

Historic oversight corrected: Film 'Lincoln' inspires look into slavery vote — Mississippi ratified the 13th amendment in 1995? Nope, no racism here. Just good, patriotic "real Americans". Lowering the Bar with more on this.

Tea Party: Obama is HitlerIt’s time the we stopped pretending that the Tea Party is some real organization that deserves our respect. I can't think of a tim when the Tea Party did deserve our respect. It was always a patently transparent Republican astroturf movement designed to tap racial resentment among angry, willfully ignorant, low-information conservatives.

Missouri Republican Wants To Make It A Felony For His Fellow Lawmakers To Propose Gun Laws — That's the conservative view of democracy: their way or the highway.

Hagel and Repudiating the Bush EraThe fight over Hagel centers on Republican hard-liners’ continuing attachment to Bush-era foreign policy and the rejection of much of Bush’s legacy by everyone else. The problem for conservatives in repudiating the Bush era is coming to terms with the utter financial and foreign policy disaster that the Iraq War has been. They're not good at admitting they were wrong, especially on such a massive and destructive scale. If a Democrat had launched a trillion-dollar war of choice under knowingly false pretenses, we'd be hearing about it every day for decades to come.

QotD?: Is she so cute?




2/20/2013
Writing time yesterday: 1.0 hour (0.5 hours on a new story, to 900 words, and 0.5 hours working on my collaboration with [info]the_child)
Hours slept: 7.0 hours (fitful)
Body movement: 0.5 hours (stationary bike)
Weight: 234.4
Number of FEMA troops on my block covering up high crimes and misdemeanors in Benghazi: 0
Currently reading: Mort by Terry Pratchett

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Bruce E. Durocher II
User: bedii
Date: 2013-02-20 13:02 (UTC)
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Of course the heist went perfectly at Helvetica Airlines. Comic Sans would have been an eyesore, and Papyrus had just folded. Oh, and Swiss Fokker may be the name of my next band.
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houseboatonstyx: smaller-healing-buddha
User: houseboatonstyx
Date: 2013-02-20 18:23 (UTC)
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Keyword:smaller-healing-buddha
As for meteorites -- no mention of the French Academy scientists refusing to accept such reports, since there was no place in the sky they could fall from? Every rational person knew that. It was only farmers and clerics who reported them.

Kind of like the modern attitude to 'alternative medicine'.

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=meteorite+french+acacemy&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&channel=suggest
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