Friday Link Salad With Added Comentary

[chris_gerrib]

I 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 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.

Comments

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

I love those demotivational posters ;o)