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| Title: | Jasmine's obit for Mr. Bean |
| Author: |  james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 14:52 |
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Long time Cardamom Addict readers know this handsome boy to the left--this is, of course, Mr. Bean. If you follow my @cardamomaddict Twitter account, you know things have been rough for this dear old cat these past few weeks. Unfortunately, one week after being diagnosed with both liver and pancreatic cancers, this lovely boy passed away.
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| Title: | PAR Article: Call of Duty will play the same on next-generation consoles, but it will be much, much |
| Author: |  pennyarcaderss |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 18:43 |
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| Title: | News Post: Srip Search! |
| Author: | pennyarcaderss |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 18:43 |
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| Title: | WisCon travel listening |
| Author: | julieandrews posting in  wiscon |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 14:20 |
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| Title: | I dreamt you found me out in a field |
| Author: | sovay |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 13:50 |
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| Music: | Timber Timbre, "Lay Down in the Tall Grass" |
ashlyme in March when he asked me for a Machenesque poem, even if in practice it came out more like M. John Harrison cross-bred with the the famous statue of Pan. The second came out of nowhere at the beginning of this month: I think it had to do with Adresteia. The title is in the sense of Cato, and also just the one it sounds like.rushthatspeaks; then spent the evening with derspatchel, watching Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) for the first time in years. There will be a post when I have slept enough that I feel comfortable throwing even notes at the screen. Last night, we saw Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, introduced by a pioneer of wearable computing; I found his lecture a fascinating mix of stories that really interested me and philosophy I didn't agree with. My plans for today mostly involve rushthatspeaks and catching up on work. One of these I like.| Title: | For anyone wondering why it took so long for anyone to take the IRS claims seriously |
| Author: | yendi |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 13:28 |
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| Title: | The Tongue of Men and Angels (The Borgias, Fanfiction) |
| Topics: | fanfiction, the borgias |
| Author: | selenak |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 18:53 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Munich |
| Mood: | creative  |
Family, God and Death: Rodrigo struggles through past, present and future.
| Title: | Call for Participation: Doctoral Workshop |
| Author: | crookedtimber |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 13:27 |
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http://crookedtimber.org/2013/05/21/call-f
http://crookedtimber.org/?p=29163
I’m very excited to be hosting a doctoral workshop this summer on “Developing Best Practices for Using Digital Tools to Study Human Behavior in Online Environments“. I’m hoping to attract a multidisciplinary group. Please forward, post, tweet, retweet the call for participation below. And if you’re interested, but at a different stage of work, please see a form for that below as well.
Here’s an example tweet for your convenience or feel free to write your own:
CFP Doctoral workshop @webuse on Digital tools to study human behavior
in online environments http://bit.ly/digitools13
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DOCTORAL WORKSHOP
Developing Best Practices for Using Digital Tools to Study Human Behavior in Online Environments
http://webuse.org/workshop2013/
We invite doctoral students who study human behavior in digital environments, and who are at the beginning stages of their dissertation work, to apply to a workshop focusing on methodological issues in this kind of research. (At a different stage in your work, but still interested? See below.)
WHEN: August 18-20, 2013
WHERE: Evanston, Illinois, USA (just north of Chicago)
COST: None, the workshop will cover participants’ lodging and meals,
and in most cases the full cost of their travel
HOST: Web Use Project, School of Communication, Northwestern University
The goal of the workshop is to bring together about a dozen junior and half-a-dozen senior scholars to discuss methodological best practices for the in-depth study of human behavior in digital environments. So-called “big data” offer lots of opportunities to study the social world, but may miss insights that methods such as in-person observations and interviews can discover. Bringing different types of data and methods together can help address challenges, such as biased data sets, and can help glean new insights. Workshop participants will discuss tools that exist and tools that need to be developed for sharable, sustainable, and scalable approaches to collecting, coding, and analyzing comparable data about human behavior in digital environments.
The workshop welcomes applications from full-time doctoral students, regardless of citizenship. Ideally, applicants will not yet have begun data collection for their dissertation, or will be in the early stages of that process. Applicants should, however, have a well-defined dissertation research question. We welcome students from a variety of
disciplines, including but not limited to anthropology, communication, demography, economics, human computer interaction, information and library sciences, media studies, political science, science and technology studies, and sociology. Students need not be enrolled at a university in the U.S. to participate.
NOT ELIGIBLE, BUT INTERESTED? We ask scholars working on related projects, but not eligible for the workshop (including students not yet at the dissertation data collection stage or well into their projects as well as faculty at all levels) to get in touch with us so that we can keep them posted of future meetings and funding opportunities. http://bit.ly/wupform13
Review of applications for the workshop will begin May 29, 2013. For full consideration, please send application materials before that date.
TO APPLY:
1. Fill out and submit this online form: http://bit.ly/wrkshp13
2. Fill out the Application Form linked at http://webuse.org/workshop2013/
3. Send the Application Form and a copy of your CV (with your last name, first name initial in the file name, e.g., HargittaiE-CV.pdf) as attachments to workshop2013@webuse.org .
Questions? Please email workshop2013@webuse.org with any questions related to the workshop.
Funding for the workshop is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. http://sloan.org
| Title: | Alec Ash's Science Fiction in China: A Conversation with Fei Dao |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 12:09 |
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Alec Ash: How did you start writing science fiction?
Fei Dao: When I was at middle school, 16 or 17, I started to read a lot of sci fi. I read the magazine Science Fiction World, and became more familiar with sci fi literature. I liked it because there was a lot of imagination and novelty in it. At that time, my dream was to become an author. When I started out, I didn’t think at all about writing science fiction. Back then I felt sci fi was very difficult to write, and needed some knowledge of science, so I could only appreciate it but not write it myself.
Like many post 80s authors, I started out writing campus stories about young people in school. But I couldn’t get them published. Until one day in university, I wrote a science fiction story on the side, and sent it in to Science Fiction World. I was just giving it a go, I had no idea that that first story would get published [in 2003]. A year later, I had another idea, and that second story also got published. So that encouraged me, and I started writing sci fi.
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| Title: | " ...sometimes the stuffed rabbit savages you." |
| Author: | rysmiel |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 12:09 |
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zaria123 and gsteemso and taken over to hang out with them and zaria123's two sons.zaria123 and family, including introducing them to The Venture Brothers, and all going out to see Iron Man 3. Lack of bookshop success.elisem's house. There was excellent Caribbean food, and hanging out during which elisem introduced me to a number of things.mrissa, including successful visit to Uncle Hugo's/Edgar's. Then met up with my Evil Siamese Twin for the first time in a decade, hung out, wandered around Art-a-Whirl things, and went over to St.Paul for a diner dinner.elisem's Beads of the Month packages for posting. Went to writers-and-cookies with elisem and mrissa and timprov and some other people who may not be on lj, which was fun; went home with mrissa and met markgritter and hung out for a while then went to dinner at Wise Acre. Then had a nice evening in with elisem, music and backrubs.| Title: | Can Americans Understand Eurovision |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 12:01 |
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| Title: | The Baker Street Irregulars |
| Topics: | no seriously, reviews, tv |
| Author: | glvalentine |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 11:58 |
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| Title: | Do you like a specific hazelnut chocolate spread? |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 11:46 |
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It seems some companies don’t enjoy free publicity. Due to legal protests from Ferrero, which owns the Nutella brand, the organizer of World Nutella Day has said she is canceling the unofficial holiday, as well as the event website and Facebook (FB) and Twitter accounts dedicated to celebrating the creamy, chocolatey, hazelnut spread.
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| Title: | Recent Reading Roundup 33 |
| Author: | wrong_questions |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 17:21 |
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| Title: | you gotta keep on going. you gotta feast on crumbs. |
| Topics: | 0.o |
| Author: | matociquala |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 11:06 |
| Security: | public |
| Music: | SHRIEKBACK - LOAD THE BOAT |
| Mood: | weepy |
| Title: | a dream within a trail of sparks |
| Topics: | writing craft wank |
| Author: | matociquala |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 11:00 |
| Security: | public |
| Music: | Tom McRae - For The Restless |
| Mood: | exanimate  |
It always amazes me how getting a couple of big, mentally taxing projects (like, say, a major novelette commission and the Very Important Third Book Of A Trilogy) squared away opens out the horizons. There are suddenly more hours in the day, and more energy to get stuff done in those hours.
Creative work is really emotionally taxing. The more ambitious it is, the more taxing. I've been struggling, the past couple of months, to get the basics done--dishes washed, bills paid, exercise exercised. Now that the book and one of May's two novelettes are done, suddenly my head is full of room.
Case in point: after yesterday's marathon work session, I'm achy and exhausted and this morning's run was kinda brutal (and truncated by two families of geese, who I was unwilling to disturb in order to run along the trail they were hanging out on) but I still got All The Procrastinated Errands Done this morning, and more will happen this afternoon.
And I've reread what I have on the month's other novelette, which is actually probably going to be a short novella, and I like it! It's good!
| Title: | Cargo Bike road testing |
| Author: | jinty |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 15:35 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | werk (tut tut) |
| Music: | keyboard tapping |
| Mood: | tired but cheerful |
cangetmad having used it for some time and spoken well of it, but in the event I really didn't feel comfortable at all on either this or the Babboe - I am just too short for either of them! Although getting on and off a too-big trike is much more stable than doing the same on a too-big bike, When pedalling I can't get all the way down to the bottom of the travel. Part of the issue was also in getting used to being on a trike at all, I think; certainly for the first two trikes I tried, I found it hard to even get the steering to work naturally for me, I wobbled, I nearly drove into things (and nearly got myself into the path of traffic on the road - yes, this was a trial-by-fire test drive on real roads!).
tortipede found this cool German website which includes almost all the kinds of cargo and special purpose bikes available throughout the world. Like all human endeavours it is clearly subject to error; specifically, I can't seem to find the Gazelle Cabby there, which certainly matches its stated site definition. But where else would I expect to see rather neat little icons depicting the different bike types? or a large range of specialist coffee or ice cream trikes? Or a list of wheelchair-transporting bikes? Fantastic stuff!| Title: | Casey Dreier's Planetary Science Echoes Through the Halls of Congress |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 10:29 |
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May 14th, 2013 - The day started early, as days in Washington tend to do. I was up before my alarm, already thinking about the day ahead of us: a day of meetings, events, handshakes, introductions, and effort. The Planetary Society was in D.C., and we were there to help save Planetary Science.
| Title: | Gollancz Masterworks f/m |
| Topics: | f/m |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 10:00 |
| Security: | public |
Series Total Female Male F/T Numbered paperback series 73 4 69 0.05 Unpublished titles 2 2 0 Hardcover titles 10 1 9 0.1 New design 62 12 50 0.19 Also posted at Dreamwidth, where there arecomment(s); comment here or there.
| Title: | I need to know about your morals! |
| Author: | andrewducker |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 14:46 |
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Using an ad-supported website with an adblocker turned on.
Throwing away excess food
Buying books,movies, DVDs, games, etc. second-hand
Taking a tax deduction
Downloading illegal digital copies of music you own
Downloading illegal digital copies of books you own the paper versions of
Downloading illegal TV that you would have eventually got legally for free, but not for aaaaaages
Downloading a game/album/movie that you bought, but now the disc is missing/damaged
Answering poll questions when, frankly, you should be working right now.
| Title: | As seen on FB |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 09:39 |
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| Title: | It's not exploration if it doesn't involve burly men and women in see-through space suits, |
| Author: | james_nicoll |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 09:09 |
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I’ve argued this point in a couple of essays, but I’ll repeat myself: that once upon a time the road to space lay all before us like a dream of dawn. We were going to have hotels on the moon and trips to Pluto by the twenty-first century; instead of which we have nuclear piles the size of tumble-driers upon which microprocessors the size of scrabble-tiles fly silently and coldly past the outer planets. And nothing else.
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| Title: | Intriguing 1966 DC Comics house ad |
| Topics: | batman, comics, dc comics, joe kubert, marvel comics |
| Author: | scottedelman |
| Date: | 2013-05-21 @ 08:41 |
| Security: | public |
Originally published at Scott Edelman. Please leave any comments there.
While I was over at my sister-in-law’s house Sunday night, I happened to notice a stack of old comics on the coffee table and picked up this one—Detective Comics #350 (April 1966)—because who could resist a Batman drawn by Joe Kubert or those Go-Go Checks?
The house ads in the issue were as much fun as the stories (which is often the case), and I was particularly intrigued by this one, in which DC claimed it sold “twice as many comics as any other competitor” and “almost as many as all other comics combined.”( Read the rest of this entry »Collapse )
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