A Few Links for Friday
Oct. 23rd, 2015 08:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribBlogging has been a bit sporadic due to Daye Jobbe things. Have a couple of links, moving from heavy to light.
A) One of my fellow Hadley Rille authors is wise about women characters.
B) The article above led to a very interesting link Ted Bundy's Success is a Failure of Feminism.
C) On a somewhat lighter note, true size maps. This site allows you to select a US state or country and drag it around the map. As you move relative to the equator, the entity selected gets "bigger" or "smaller" reflecting it's true size relative to other entities. Fascinating.
D) In honor of the reboot of Star Wars, Max Gladstone asks Galactic history or Galactic folk tale?
E) XKCD has thoughts on conspiracy theories. Paging Sad Puppies, Sad Puppies, please pick up the white courtesy phone for an important message.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/conspiracy_theories.png
A) One of my fellow Hadley Rille authors is wise about women characters.
B) The article above led to a very interesting link Ted Bundy's Success is a Failure of Feminism.
C) On a somewhat lighter note, true size maps. This site allows you to select a US state or country and drag it around the map. As you move relative to the equator, the entity selected gets "bigger" or "smaller" reflecting it's true size relative to other entities. Fascinating.
D) In honor of the reboot of Star Wars, Max Gladstone asks Galactic history or Galactic folk tale?
E) XKCD has thoughts on conspiracy theories. Paging Sad Puppies, Sad Puppies, please pick up the white courtesy phone for an important message.
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/conspiracy_theories.png
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Re: White and Gold Courtesy Phone
Date: 2015-10-23 07:53 pm (UTC)I wish I knew the name of the Catholic bishop who simply refused to make the minor effort to peer through Galileo's telescope at the Moon, because the Moon was a celestial orb and thus perfect and without blemish, and there was simply no point to bothering because Galileo was wrong because he could not be right and so obviously he was wrong. You see? Very simple.