September 2009
18 posts
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine →
Dr Strangeglove has been busy, it would seem.
Craters Show 1970s Viking Lander Missed Martian... →
Crikey - this is big news. Ice less than a foot from the surface of non-polar Mars? Throws the idea of manned bases or even atmospheric warming into a whole new light… (via Charlie Stross).
The Ultimate Uncluttered Tube Map - Londonist →
Genius.
Filtering Metafilter
I joined Metafilter, Matt Haughey’s community blog and general centre of internet awesomeness, back in January 2006, nearly four years ago, after a good year of lurking.
For those unfamiliar with the site, it’s pretty much the Best Place On the Internet. I’m totally serious. It’s an amazing community, with some of the highest quality posts, discussion and general banter...
Note to self:
It’s generally not a good sign, three pages in to a new book, when you’re mentally rewriting every third sentence so that it doesn’t clunk like a box of tools.
Thank heavens it’s a library book.
Watch“How would it be if a house were dreaming?” - Brain-breaking facade projection work. Produced by UrbanScreen.
“When I was 18 it was a genre as accepted as other genres,” he said, but...”
– John Mullan, Booker judge, neatly displaying his own narrow view of the world, while validating Kim Stanley Robinson’s assertion that modern British SF is ignored by the literary prize committee. I mean, come on John, you could have just screamed “Lookit the NERDS!!1!”, it would...
Feeling new to me
When I first got myself a blog on the interwebs, many moons ago now (2003-ish, if memory serves), it was all very brand new and exciting. I wrote a lot of vague, rambly posts. Then I went through a lifehackery type phase, writing tutorials and suchlike, followed by a gamer phase writing reviews and musings about games.
Tumblr is a bit different, I think, because of its emphasis on multiple...
20 most bizarre Craigslist adverts of all time -... →
There are no words.
San Francisco Mayoral Candidates undergo the... →
“Reaction time is a factor in this, so please pay attention. Now, answer as quickly as you can.
It’s your birthday. Someone gives you a calfskin wallet. How do you react?”
Joe Blow NeoPro →
Tobias Buckell’s excellent series on pitfalls and key skills for writers just beginning to sell work.
(via Instapaper)
Tumbling into the future
I’ve had a personal website now for about five years. I started out on the now changed beyond recognition Blog-City, moved to Blogger and finally started up my own site about four years back on davidgoodman.net.
I’ve weathered hackers, constant security updates and fannying around with the backend of Wordpress using the ‘change something, save it, see if it breaks anything’ school of web...
ReadWriteWeb's Top 5 Web Trends of 2009 →
I’d be willing to bet that this would be actively frightening to the computer scientists of yesteryear.