eh, things.

[jazzfish]

A week of work and sick-recovery, and a bit of gaming over the weekend. Today my big goal is to get caught up on all the email I owe to various people. Eh, might happen.

I currently have no intention of getting on Google+, partly because I don't need yet another place to keep track of all the same people and partly because, to quote Marco Arment, "a huge advertising company would like you to give them as much of your personal information as possible and encourages you to use their services more frequently, for more reasons, and for longer durations each time so they can show you more ads and make more money from the advertisers." (Yes, I use Facebook: sporadically, in a quarantined browser, and with very little of my personal information.)

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A modern sexual-assault tale: "You knowingly walked down Dundritch Street in your suit when everyone knows you like to give away money, and then you didn't fight back. It sounds like you gave money to someone, but now you're having after-donation regret."

On the difference between Good Dogs and Dogs That Need a Newspaper Smack, which is actually a cogent explanation of privilege and has nothing to do with smacking anybody, canine or otherwise. [via salzara_tirwen]

Holy cow, Barcelona has a Mammoth Museum. And also a shop from which you can purchase your very own mammoth skeleton.

A very cool climbing wall.

Narbonic: The Perfect Collection (print version of online comic!), and a digital Planetary [Warren Ellis] omnibus (online version of print comic!).

And Tim Powers has a new book out next March: ""Next up is a novel based around the Rossetti family, a loose sequel to The Stress of Her Regard." I should reread Stress; I've only read it once but I remember it as being middling Powers (so, lesser than Anubis Gates or Last Call, better than the Last Call sequels, and, mm, on par with Three Days to Never).

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[thanate]

The University of Nebraska State Museum has got a hall of Mammoths, ancient to modern as you walk in the front door. If I'd had any reason to be in Lincoln, I would totally have tried to book it for my wedding reception...

(They also have a bunch of stuff on the ashfall fossil beds, which are responsible for the state fossil being the mammoth. Reputedly if one wanders along roadsides in the Nebraska badlands for any length of time, mammoth teeth will appear. (I didn't try this the last time I drove through, but I was tempted...)

[desfido]

I've only read it once as well, but I'd rank it best of the 2nd tier from what I recall.

First tier is Declare, Anubis Gates, Last Call, and Drawing of the Dark.

Third tier is the LC sequels.

2nd tier is everything else of his I've read (Stress, Tides, Three Days).

The unclassified works are The Skies Discrowned, Epitaph in Rust, Dinner at Deviant's Palace, and all his short works.

It's the only one of his works from that second tier that I've had a strong impulse to reread, even though I haven't followed through on it yet. I find it quite possible that after a reread or three, I may bump it up to the top tier.

So, I'm sort of excited, on the one hand, because I liked Stress. On the other, I'm not particularly impressed with what he came up with for sequels before (relatively to the admittedly high standard of how good he is when he's at his best). So, who knows.

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