Research and Links
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jadesfireI love getting my teeth into research for a new story. As promised to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
apiphile, 2009 is the year of the subplot, and I'm doing my best to construct one for my Big Bang. So far, I'm up to my ears in Arthurian legend, dragons, sedimentary rocks, Welsh poetry, Geoffrey of Monmouth, physics and the geography of North Wales. It's great! I also had one of those moments where you read something in research that you're pretty sure was put there just for you. Oh yes. Subplots, here I come...
When I'm not doing that, I've been clearing out some of my delicious links that I thought you might like.
My pick of the bunch:
Truly beautiful kinetic sculptures. I could watch them all day, and his own website could prove addictive.
And the rest:
100 foot Dalek!
Dooblet. This is an interesting version of a search engine, offering you alternatives to your search term, rather than actual results.
Latin is alive and well and living in California
Dewey Decimal Rap. The internet is a strange, strange place…
Interesting piece by Mary Beard on the feminising (or not) of history.
Listen to all the Nebula short-listed stories from 2008
The Internet Monoculture. I need to get to grips with the maths in this, but it's an interesting piece about the nature of influence on and offline.
Time vs The Pundits. Time generally wins.
Fantastic pictures from last week's Earth Hour
Find your local library with a text message! (US only)
Inside your mobile and other gadgets. They're kind of pretty without their clothes on.
Courtoons. Breaking news: both lawyers and librarians have senses of humour. More later.
Costuming: UR DOIN IT RONG
Guesstimations. Raising vagueness to an art form. Or possibly a science.
apiphile, 2009 is the year of the subplot, and I'm doing my best to construct one for my Big Bang. So far, I'm up to my ears in Arthurian legend, dragons, sedimentary rocks, Welsh poetry, Geoffrey of Monmouth, physics and the geography of North Wales. It's great! I also had one of those moments where you read something in research that you're pretty sure was put there just for you. Oh yes. Subplots, here I come...When I'm not doing that, I've been clearing out some of my delicious links that I thought you might like.
My pick of the bunch:
Truly beautiful kinetic sculptures. I could watch them all day, and his own website could prove addictive.
And the rest:
100 foot Dalek!
Dooblet. This is an interesting version of a search engine, offering you alternatives to your search term, rather than actual results.
Latin is alive and well and living in California
Dewey Decimal Rap. The internet is a strange, strange place…
Interesting piece by Mary Beard on the feminising (or not) of history.
Listen to all the Nebula short-listed stories from 2008
The Internet Monoculture. I need to get to grips with the maths in this, but it's an interesting piece about the nature of influence on and offline.
Time vs The Pundits. Time generally wins.
Fantastic pictures from last week's Earth Hour
Find your local library with a text message! (US only)
Inside your mobile and other gadgets. They're kind of pretty without their clothes on.
Courtoons. Breaking news: both lawyers and librarians have senses of humour. More later.
Costuming: UR DOIN IT RONG
Guesstimations. Raising vagueness to an art form. Or possibly a science.