friday afternoon linky goodness
Jul. 22nd, 2011 08:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishThe Sean Bean Death Reel, via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mariness, who adds, "Back when a certain piece of casting was announced, a friend of mine who had not read Game of Thrones grumbled, 'Great. Now I know the ending.'" (Warning: contains gore, violence, and, well, death.)
Forsilmaril, The Art of Failure 2011, a slide show of "surreal and spectacular chip failures."
To a Medical Center in Fresno, on the superiority of American health care. Best read as a companion piece to An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine.
A Kickstarter for a promising RPG, and a forum thread full of overreactions and case studies as to why it's needed. (As the author says, Heartbreak and Heroines is not the game where you play womyn from the land of Herstoria, fighting against the evil forces of The Patriarchy. That would be [warning: PDF] this game.)
A Small Observation Regarding Words and Releases: "Look, I’m a New York Times bestselling author and I sell perfectly well, thanks for asking, and by the end of its first week of sales, it’s entirely likely A Dance With Dragons will sell more hardcover copies in the US than I have sold of all my novels, in every printed format, since Old Man’s War came out in 2005." That's... impressive. I've heard rumors that ADwD was in its sixth printing a couple of weeks ago... before any books had shipped to customers. Yow.
mariness, who adds, "Back when a certain piece of casting was announced, a friend of mine who had not read Game of Thrones grumbled, 'Great. Now I know the ending.'" (Warning: contains gore, violence, and, well, death.)For
silmaril, The Art of Failure 2011, a slide show of "surreal and spectacular chip failures."To a Medical Center in Fresno, on the superiority of American health care. Best read as a companion piece to An Eye-Opening Adventure in Socialized Medicine.
A Kickstarter for a promising RPG, and a forum thread full of overreactions and case studies as to why it's needed. (As the author says, Heartbreak and Heroines is not the game where you play womyn from the land of Herstoria, fighting against the evil forces of The Patriarchy. That would be [warning: PDF] this game.)
A Small Observation Regarding Words and Releases: "Look, I’m a New York Times bestselling author and I sell perfectly well, thanks for asking, and by the end of its first week of sales, it’s entirely likely A Dance With Dragons will sell more hardcover copies in the US than I have sold of all my novels, in every printed format, since Old Man’s War came out in 2005." That's... impressive. I've heard rumors that ADwD was in its sixth printing a couple of weeks ago... before any books had shipped to customers. Yow.