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Friday Link Salad With Added Comentary
Sep. 13th, 2013 10:46 amI grow weary of the butt-hurt explosion regarding the Hugos. Not, as I remind you, because my pick won (it did not, as I predicted) but because all of the butt-hurt is sound and fury signifying nothing. The awards were given, and absent a working time machine, they will stand.
Moving on, a few links with thoughts:
A) Just for the giggles - Despair, Inc., the demotivator people.
B) Also kind of humorous, in a "look at stupid questions people ask" kind of way, I present Ask A Slave. A young black actress got a gig at a historical site playing a slave. These are the real (and really stupid) questions she was asked. (Hat tip![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
james_nicoll.)
C) From the great time-sink TVTropes, a trope I hate - good guy slaughters bad guy's henchmen but suddenly decides to not kill the bad guy. Seriously, if you get a shot at the Big Bad, take it! (Corollary to Tuco's Law.)
D) From Tobias Buckell - NASA to actually grow food in space.
E) From various sources including Buckell, an actual flying zeppelin called the Aeroscraft. A key innovation - unlike all other lighter-than-air craft, this uses air as ballast. They compress the helium bags to sink and decompress them to rise.
Moving on, a few links with thoughts:
A) Just for the giggles - Despair, Inc., the demotivator people.
B) Also kind of humorous, in a "look at stupid questions people ask" kind of way, I present Ask A Slave. A young black actress got a gig at a historical site playing a slave. These are the real (and really stupid) questions she was asked. (Hat tip
james_nicoll.)C) From the great time-sink TVTropes, a trope I hate - good guy slaughters bad guy's henchmen but suddenly decides to not kill the bad guy. Seriously, if you get a shot at the Big Bad, take it! (Corollary to Tuco's Law.)
D) From Tobias Buckell - NASA to actually grow food in space.
E) From various sources including Buckell, an actual flying zeppelin called the Aeroscraft. A key innovation - unlike all other lighter-than-air craft, this uses air as ballast. They compress the helium bags to sink and decompress them to rise.
