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Further Beauty
He passed it through the entire Lakers team. All five of them, frozen like statues.
Originally published at EugeneFischer.com
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Robot Readable World
This short film by Tino Arnall was linked by Warren Ellis back in February. I find myself returning to or thinking about it again every few weeks. Warren likens it to a nascent machine intelligence learning to see, which is fascinating. But I keep considering all of these pieces of footage as visualizations of domain-specific heuristics of ( Read more... ) -
On Genre Writers and MFA Programs
I couldn’t attend ICFA this year, but I’ve been following along as best I can on social networks. Earlier today Nick Mamatas livetweeted a panel discussion on graduate school and job possibilities for writers with MFAs/PhDs. Apparently someone (or several someones) at this panel expressed an opinion that Nick summarized as “Genre writers seeking ( Read more... ) -
A Day in the Life of a Booster Rocket
I’ve been meaning to use the blog more. I’ll inaugurate what I hope will be a return to more frequent posting with this incredible video. I’ve seen this happen from the ground, but never like this.
Originally published at EugeneFischer.com
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Facebook Meme: How Did We (Not) Meet?
A few months ago there was a meme on Facebook that I particularly liked. The core of it read:
I would like my Facebook friends to comment on this status, sharing how you met me. But I want you to LIE. That’s right, just make it up. After you comment, copy this to your status, so I can do the same.
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Wise Words About Torture and the Ticking Bomb
I was reading through the archives of Chatological Humor, Gene Weingarten’s regular Q&A on the Washington Post site, and ran across a comment from 2009 (by someone identified only as “Hmph”) that was worth saving. Recall that in 2009 there was much news discussion of whether the US was taking prisoners to countries with lenient torture laws and ( Read more... ) -
Tabclosing
- On Robert Krulwich’s NPR blog, a post about the shape of stories as drawn by Kurt Vonnegut. Includes one of my favorite science cartoons ever.
- The Genderfloomp Reading List. I won a copy of Whipping Girl as my prize for being Best Dressed. I’ve only read the introduction so far, but it looks very good.
- Qik.com. This is ostensibly as service for real- ( Read more... )
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How I Will Be Spending The Next Two Years
About a month ago, the PBS Newshour ran a segment about the 75th anniversary of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the oldest writing MFA program in the country.
At 1:16 in the above video, the segment cuts to workshop director Samantha Chang standing in an office filled with crates full of manuscripts in red folders, explaining that over 1,200 people ( Read more... )
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