I don’t know why I’m accumulating weblinks like dust bunnies lately, but I really, really am. so have some more.

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I go to all the trouble of figuring out how the Nebula rules work, and then they go changing them on me. But I applaud the move — and it doesn’t invalidate my previous effort, since I believe 2008 works are still operating under the old rules. Anyway, the argument in favor of rolling eligibility has always been to avoid disadvantaging works published late in the year; the argument against it has always been that 1) it’s utterly byzantine to figure out and 2) it makes the Nebulas hit too late to be relevant. (As in, the majority of the works in the running for the 2009 award were published in 2007.) Me, I’m in favor of the change. The Oscars make it work; so can we.

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The science of fiction — namely, what effect reading fiction has on our minds. I’ve heard these ideas before, but this is a good presentation of them, especially since the scientists acknowledge at the end that they should go on to look at tv and movies and games and so on.

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Jesus Christ that cat is huge.

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Cat Valente’s advice to single male programmer types, re: housekeeping. So very, very true, even without the focus on getting laid.

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Interesting thoughts on core animal emotions, and how they might apply to the 2008 American presidential election and the proselytizing efforts of atheists.

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Now to deal with e-mail.