links for 2008-03-24
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Linkworlds, by Will McIntosh (part 2 of 2)
“Tweel, I think I’ve spied an unrecorded world! Come take a look,” Mallowell said.
I was watching the engineers install the sluices for Cyan’s new waterway system. Soon we wouldn’t have to empty piss buckets any more, and fresh water would come up to my
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Found on slashdot: statistics and miniskirts
Posted on March 19, 2008 - Filed Under humour | Leave a Comment
Statistics are like mini skirts; they show a lot but hide the most important facts.
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Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Linkworlds, by Will McIntosh (part 1 of 2)
The world we were linked to was named Cyan, because of its color, blue-green with specks of yellow at the equator. It blotted out almost 60 percent of the blue and yellow sky. It looked like a gigantic curved wall, and it scared me because [...]
links for 2008-03-14
Posted on March 15, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
The Pollercoaster « Possums Pollytics
Ever wondered what it’d be like to ride the polls?
I present to you the ALP two party preferred vote from January 2000 through to the 2007 election - in a whole new perspective.
(tags: politics humour australia rollercoaster ALP polling)
Non-European PhDs In Germany Find Use Of ‘Doktor’ Verboten - washingtonpost.com
BERLIN, March 13 [...]
links for 2008-03-11
Posted on March 12, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Strange Horizons Fiction: Kip, Running, by Genevieve Williams
The runners are lithe and young. None are older than sixteen. Nothing about their hair or clothing dangles in excess, though they ornament themselves in other ways: hair cut in patterns like ornamental lawns, tint cascading through the patterns like adver
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links for 2008-03-03
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under links | Leave a Comment
Agent to the Stars — An Online Novel
“Fourteen million and 15% of the gross? For Michelle Beck? You’re out of your fucking mind, Tom.”
Headsets are a godsend; they allow you to speak on the phone while leaving your hands free for the truly important things. My hands were currently occupied
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Strange Horizons Fiction: [...]
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