Making Light Indices May-Jul 2005

Added to the Making Light Indices

Writer's Index Stuff

A couple of book on writing F&SF by a bunch of folks who haven't actually sold much...with predictable results. Sigh. 162 comments May, 2005.

When suspension of disbelief fails. A note on losing your passion for a book. Good stuff for both writer and readers. 240 comments May, 2005.

Art and dogma. Writing to a manifesto, maybe not such a good idea. 62 comments May, 2005.

The birth of a new SF movement via David Moles: Infernokrusher! 156 comments Jun, 2005.

Book Expo America and the Tor Giant Weenie Suit. A publicist's work is never done. 75 comments Jun, 2005.

Slushpiles and the naming of names. Short form: Be careful what you call things. 216 comments Jun, 2005.

Some notes on the PR industry as a driver of news and culture. Interesting from both a general cultural perspective and from the point of view of a writer interested in publicizing their own work. 77 comments Jun, 2005.

Teresa talking about what "may be the single most staggeringly wrongheaded essay about typography I’ve ever seen" The democratization of the font making process-the horror, the horror. 43 comments Jun, 2005.

Epublishing, Cory Doctorow's experiment and Patrick speaking on same. Interesting stuff. 33 comments Jun, 2005.

By the careful application one scam as club with which to slug another over the head Teresa has concocted a poem that passes the Wocky Jivvy, Wergle Flomp test for failing to be picked up be the International Library of Poetry. Wow. Go Teresa! Hysterically funny riffing on the Nigerian email scam. 314 comments Jun, 2005.

General Index

Admin

The merging of the light with the lite. 100 comments May, 2005. More on same. 117 comments May, 2005.

A stripped down version of Making Light. Upside easier for mobile devices. Downside, doesn't count for advertising. 49 comments May, 2005.

Pointing with comment spam, a note from the managers. 27 comments Jun, 2005.

James D. MacDonald joins the frontpagers at Making Light. 22 comments Jun, 2005.

Civil Rights

The 10 commandments in the courts and why "split the baby" is often a bad test for the merits of judicial decisions. 83 comments Jun, 2005.

Fandom

Which Science Fiction writer are you? Teresa plays with the quiz. 124 comments May, 2005.

When suspension of disbelief fails. A note on losing your passion for a book. Good stuff for both writer and readers. 240 comments May, 2005.

Glass tubes, gasoline, and attempts to use same as light sabers–Bad Idea. With really funny addendum from John M. Ford in the form of a light saber's safety manual. 94 comments May, 2005.

Reflection on Comic-Con, fandom and the species homo-fanus: "The Coming Race (74 comments Jul, 2005) and notes from a con's masquerade dance. 37 comments Jul, 2005.

Pastiches on the death of Dumbledore. Good silly fun. 123 comments Jul, 2005.

Food (Not Recipes)

NYC food. 182 comments Jun, 2005.

Internet Discourse

A taxonomy of weblogs at weblogs.com. In which we discover that there are an awful lot of weblogs that aren't. 75 comments Jun, 2005.

Iraq/Afghan Wars

More Guantanamo Bay Awfulness 67 comments Jun, 2005.

False witness, Abu Ghraib, Rumsfeld, and Bush. 0 comments Jun, 2005.

Americans aren't exempt from being compared to the worst regimes, not when they borrow techniques from same. Patrick 78 comments Jun, 2005. And Teresa. 33 comments Jun, 2005.

"Gitmo Sutra. Verse. 151 comments Jun, 2005.

On the relationship problems of active duty soldiers, especially in wartime. 58 comments Jul, 2005.

Misc

Glass tubes, gasoline, and attempts to use same as light sabers–Bad Idea. With really funny addendum from John M. Ford in the form of a light saber's safety manual. 94 comments May, 2005.

Noah vs. the Dinosaurs. Too weird for words. 36 comments Jun, 2005.

Chess, a whole bunch of variations. (Jim's first front page post) 80 comments Jun, 2005.

A different kind of slush. The giant popsicle meltdown of 2005. 76 comments Jun, 2005.


Some notes on the PR industry as a driver of news and culture. Interesting from both a general cultural perspective and from the point of view of a writer interested in publicizing their own work. 77 comments Jun, 2005.

Roses. More on same in the context of Teresa's garden. 93 comments Jun, 2005.

Teresa pulls apart a didactic Sunday school piece from the 19th century, "Archie’s Fourth of July" Then Jim joins in with a side story. Funny stuff. 128 comments Jun, 2005.

Patrick notes that the present is now officially stranger than science fiction and the future will be stranger yet. Resource farming in online communities as full time job. 85 comments Jul, 2005.

16 things Teresa learned in the garden this year. Plant stuff. 118 comments Jul, 2005.

Strange questions at Snopes and speculation thereof. Specifically on the possibility of being able to both insert and remove a standard light bulb from one's mouth. 163 comments Jul, 2005.

Med/Emergency

Teresa's tips for the apocalypse. Contact your people, beware of rumors, hang in there, and other bits of good advice-with much more in comments. 141 comments Jul, 2005.

Poetry

"Gitmo Sutra. Verse. 151 comments Jun, 2005.

John M Ford's "Billy the Shake goes to the Demo Derby" from the infernokrusher thread. 19 comments Jun, 2005.

Another infernokrusher poem, this one by Robert Frost. 32 comments Jun, 2005.

Politics

The Senate gang of 14 judges deal. The Democrats allow a couple of extremist judges to be confirmed and get some not-so magic beans in return. 178 comments May, 2005. Plus Teresa talks about the truly awful effects of
restricting abortion rights and contraception frontpaged by Patrick with comments turned off and redirected to earlier thread.

Patrick points to Friedman getting one right. On the destruction of America's international reputation under Bush. 160 comments Jun, 2005.

Astroturf political organizations. 261 comments Jun, 2005.

Recipes

A pasta salad with peaches and all sorts of other goodies. 21 comments Jul, 2005.

The nanny blogger who was fired for blogging, and interesting discussion about the inequalities of class. 250 comments Jul, 2005

Avocado & pummelo salad + High-octane limeade concentrate and links to recipes past. 71 comments Jul, 2005.

Scams

On parasitic weblogs and sites. 51 comments Jun, 2005.

Security Theater

Random searches on the New York subways, more security theater. 47 comments Jul, 2005.