Month: June 2009

These are my links for June 18th through June 25th:

• SCIENCE AND SANITY by Alfred Korzybski – If you want your ideas to spread, you've gotta put them online.
• Get Smarter by Jamais Cascio – He's been busy recently!
• The Need for Geoengineering by Jamais Cascio – He's always worth reading.
• Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air by David JC Mackay – "This is to energy and climate what Freakonomics is to economics: an accessible, meaty, by-the-numbers look at the physics and practicalities of energy."
• The Book Seer – I'm not sure how awesome the recommendations are, but I dig the bearded book recommender guy.
• Robert Fisk: Iran's day of destiny – Wow. Man on the street article about protests in Iran. Amazing stuff

These are my links for June 16th through June 17th:

• Five Movements To Watch Out For – China Mieville comes up with five as-yet-nonexistent literary movements that people should write books for. I'll read this soon…
• IE6 denial message for Momentile.com on Flickr – Photo Sharing! – It'd be sad, if it weren't so true.
• Multicolr Search Lab – A pretty Flickr image search tool, by color.
• Wordnik – A really excellent dictionary, tapping into all that social networking stuff.
• "A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra" by Richard Wilbur – A delightful little poem about a fountain.

These are my links for April 8th through June 15th:

• Brent Swanson's song poem stories – My friend is writing some fascinating stories about song poems. One of these days I'll get around to reading more than a couple of paragraphs. They're interesting so far.
• "From hell to paradise for ex-Gitmo detainees" – The US has a lot to atone for, it seems. These are the people we were/are so afraid of?
• "The Variant" by John August – A respectable experiment in self-publishing. I've been meaning to read at least the first half of this for a couple of weeks now.
• the secret knots – "The detested 'A rain of cyrillic characters'"
• some good fantasy « the m john harrison blog – The corresponding fantasy list.
• some interesting science fiction « the m john harrison blog – A nice list of science fiction from M. John Harrison
• Rules for Anchorites – Circumnavigating Fairyland – Worthwhile fiction project from Cat Valente
• Little Wheel – A delightful little robot game.
• Blueprint: A CSS Framework – This looks pretty excellent.
• NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast : NPR Podcasts – Look for the decemberist performance here. SXSW
• Watch "Sita Sings the Blues" on Reel 13 | REEL 13 – Indian mythology plus 1920s jazz vocals. Pretty sweet-looking cartoon.
• The Terrordactyls – Nice site. The only thing left is to try their music
• Clerkdogs – An interesting movie recommendation service
• Field Notes Notebooks – Some simple notebooks
• Home – flashbake – GitHub – Automatic versioning for non-programming writing projects