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• Were so screwed.

  
  Where's My Noose? — Authority: 114
  Why? Because it turns out that we dont have nearly as much oil as weve been led to believe : In particular, the allegations cast a shadow on the prediction in the last World Economic Outlook, believed to be repeated again this year, that oil production can be raised from its present level of 83 million barrels a ...
  5 days ago

• Balticon 43 Extra – EP206: Rogue Farm

  
  Balticon Podcast — Authority: 410
  Audio posted by Stephen Eley for his Escape Pod Podcast.Quoting the original show notes:Bynbsp;Charles StrossRecorded atnbsp;Balticon 43, May 23, 2009Read by:Joe -Jared Axelrod (ofnbsp;The Voice of Free Planet X)Maddie - J.R. Blackwell (ofnbsp;Voices of Tomorrow)The Farm - Evo Terra andnbsp;Sheila Dee (ofnbsp;Evo at ...
  6 days ago

• Nerd Word of the Week: Monomyth

  
  Jay Garmon [dot] Net — Authority: 118
  Image by Michael Heilemann via Flickr Monomyth (n.) - A term for the common structure of heroic stories, particularly in mythology. Also known as the heros journey , the term monomyth was popularized by Joseph Campbell in his seminal comparative mythology treatise The Hero With A Thousand Faces . ...
  3 weeks ago

• stross, to (v.)

  
  Jonas Kyratzes — Authority: 122
  Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. Well, that’s horsepuckey, of course. We are not entitled to our opinions; we are entitled to our informed opinions. Without research, without background, without ...
  4 weeks ago

• Proportioning

  
  shigekuni. — Authority: 130
  I think it was in bookbabble episode 45, with the wonderful Glenda Larke as guest, that we talked about genre fiction and about cutting up and portioning books for the booksellers. Now, this isn’t probably of any interest to anyone besides me but I found a statement by Charles Stross on that topic today: [C]hopping ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why I don’t like most modern science fiction writers…

  
  Jonas Kyratzes — Authority: 122
  Here’s a link to Charles Stross explaining why he hates several television series of which he has never seen a single episode. His arrogant dismissal of hundreds of hours of storytelling – none of which he has even seen – and the way he drops profoundly different shows into one hat pretty much says ...
  4 weeks ago

• On The Shelf, pt. 2

  
  chrisfarnsworth.com — Authority: 122
  Been getting a lot more reading done lately, but not nearly enough. There’s just too much good stuff out there. In a way, I’m glad the summer TV season wasn’t that compelling, and the fall isn’t looking much better. I have enough to do without a full TiVo sitting alone and unloved in the living room. READING: ...
  8 weeks ago

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