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May. 23rd, 2013 @ 04:10 pm
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Deleted Shower of Evil clip from Star Trek: Into Darkness featuring Benedict Cumberbatch's chest. Skip to 1:30 if you don't want to bother with J. J. Abrams pretending that there was an actual reason to put Carol Markus in her underwear.
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May. 23rd, 2013 @ 03:23 pm
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Longform article about three 'classic' pin-up artists who were women.
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Oops
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May. 23rd, 2013 @ 08:12 am
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Was mailing that previous link to myself, and accidentally sent it to DW instead.
It's a /r/bestof link that points to a series if comments in /r/askhistorians that I intend to read later. (Too much hassle to log in and delete it on my phone, so you get an explanation of it instead.)
Sent from my iPhone
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May. 22nd, 2013 @ 09:29 am
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Also, here is a photo of an albatross family. (I haven't found anything that seems like a definitive credit for the photographer.)
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May. 22nd, 2013 @ 09:24 am
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Amazon Monetizing Fanfic. Short version: Amazon is negotiating licenses for several properties that will allow writers to publish stories set in those world through Amazon. Currently licensed: three properties I don't care about.
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*yawn*
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May. 22nd, 2013 @ 08:44 am
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Yesterday's stormy weather provoked a migraine. Went home an hour early, after the storm passed through, and capitulated to taking meds abut 6PM as the headache intensified. I went for the full promethazine+hydrocodone cocktail, and by 8PM was so zonked I dragged myself to bed and, except for getting up about 11PM to put on my nightshirt, slept until 7AM. So naturally I am still sleepy today but PAIN FREE so yay.
Also I am over 2/3 of the way through The Black Company, which is a short read admittedly, and this time I think I'm finally understanding the landscape each scene is set in. I read fast, and have a tendency to skip over parts--I can't slow my reading down; I've tried and I just lose track of what the heck is going on--so each reread through something tends to be revelatory as I discover new things that I'd missed all the times before. And this time, it's the landscape.
BTW, on the topic of storms, a comment from Reddit (the /r/askhistorians subreddit, which is one of the places with draconian moderation so the conversation is actually interesting and useful): the user MomentOfArt explains the moment he understood why one Native American tribe called the twin-tornado phenomenon Dead Man Walking.
Edit: Posting comment and pic under cut because as the assertion that it was called Dead Man Walking is only from a TV dcoumentary and there's so far been no scholarly support for the fact (the OP is searching), the mods are debating deleting the comment. So take the assertion as you will.
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BTW
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May. 21st, 2013 @ 12:32 pm
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If you like your fantasy grimdark and your protagonists just this side of evil, Tor.com's doing a reread of Glen Cook's Black Company series. Note: although the first volume's ebook version is on sale for $2.99, if you want the whole series in ebook format, it'll be cheaper in the long run to get the collections instead. The reread's going to go fairly quickly, at a book every two weeks, so be prepared for that. :D
Now to go reacquaint myself with the Company's physician and chronicler Croaker, and to laugh at his habit of writing self-insert fanfic about himself and the Company's employer, Lady.
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May. 21st, 2013 @ 10:44 am
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Haven't read it yet (I saved it to Instapaper to read later), but Longreads pointed out this article: Anatomy of a Cosplayer.
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