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The Things by Peter Watts
Clarkesworld Magazine – Online Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Things by Peter Watts
I love the movie The Thing.
I love this telling of the same story from the Thing’s side just as much.
What you think you know about mortgage interest deduction is wrong
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/magazine/305deduction.1.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
Anatomy of an image processing app
iPhone Sudoku Grab: How does it all work?
This is a pretty neat article from a fellow who wrote an iPhone app that lets you take a picture of a sudoku puzzle and then solve it, manually or automatically. It’s a neat explanation of how it works, complete with sample images and step-by-steps.
Back from the dead
Amusing; it looks like I started the process to move this blog almost exactly a year ago.
Oh, it’s back up now. :)
Short Fiction: Horizontal Rain
Horizontal Rain
More good free short fiction on the web.
A Mint morality tale
Hannah over at This Garden Is Illegal talks about mint and, along the way, mentions the myth behind it. If she wrote high school textbooks kids would be way more into ancient mythology.
She Was Mint To Be With Him
The myth behind the origins of the name Mentha reads better than an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. [...]
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail
White House Refused to Open Pollutants E-Mail – NYTimes.com
Old news, but this part makes me laugh:
The Transportation Department made its own fuel-economy proposals public almost two months ago; they were based on the assumption that gasoline would range from $2.26 per gallon in 2016 to $2.51 per gallon in 2030, and set a maximum average [...]
Digital Rights Misery: When Technology Is Designed to Fail
TidBITS Opinion: Digital Rights Misery: When Technology Is Designed to Fail
A good article on the ways in which we are often asked to pay not for content, but for the delivery method. There’s also some interesting musings on how many of us interact
More excellent short fiction, found on the web
Dispersed by the Sun, Melting in the Wind by Rachel Swirsky
The last word ever spoken by a human is said in a language derived from Hindi. The word is trasa. Roughly translated: thirst or desire.