Stuff added to the ML indices for the Aug-Oct 2005 period. Please take special note of James D Macdonald's Index of Medical posts, which does that part of this task better than I could, though I'll continue to put them in the general index.
Writers Index
Copyright
A whimsical take on poor man's copyright (mailing a copy to yourself and leaving it unopened) and it's pretty much complete lack of effectiveness beyond the strictures of copyright already provided from the minute you set stuff down on the page. 36 comments Sep, 2005.
F&SF As A Genre
An F&SF primer for beginners–Yes Mr. literary reviewer, those zombies really are zombies. No, not metaphors, zombies. really. It's not that hard to figure out. Oh, come on. 399 comments Aug, 2005. And as a bonus follow-up post in the same vein, Teresa's introduction to New Magics: An Anthology of Today’s Fantasy. 98 comments Aug, 2005.
Grammar, Punctuation and the Copyeditor
Better bad sentences, a Bulwar Lytonesque contest that better reflects an editor's sense of the disasters in the slush pile. 103 comments Aug, 2005.
Misc
"Fiction scientifique" The 2005 Hugo awards scrip. Fun stuff. 10 coments Aug, 2005.
On Tim Clare, and “Everyone Does Not Have A Novel Inside Them” 164 comments Aug, 2005.
Life is a really strange place. Teresa comments on the "Bay Area public access cable show called Fantasy Bedtime Hour. Each episode is the same: two bubbleheaded and ostensibly naked girls, Juliana and Heatherly, lie in bed and read a four-page selection from Stephen R. Donaldson’s Lord Foul’s Bane, then try to figure it out." I'm dumbfounded. 90 comments Sep, 2005.
Everything I need to know about survival in a fantasy landscape I learned from traditional folk songs, or something like that. 400 comments Sep, 2005.
Writing Craft
Michael Swanwick Clarion Stories as retold by Teresa. "writing is a matter of finding the appropriate balance of dinosaurs and sodomy." A trick played on Gardener Dozois who taught after him? Or valuable writing advice? Your decision. Go read it. 116 comments Oct, 2005.
General Index
Civil Rights and Liberties
"Foreign citizens who change planes at airports in the United States can legally be seized, detained without charges..." 103 comments Aug, 2005.
DIY A Myriad of Odd and Sometimes Useful How-Tos
Teresa gets instructions for making Wizard Crackers among other things via Make magazine. 125 comments Oct, 2005.
Internet Discourse
Teresa on disemvowling scripts and links to the very first disemvowelment. 64 comments Sep, 2005.
Iraq/Afghanistan Wars
Jim on winning hearts and minds in Iraq and the beatings used to do it. 157 comments Sep, 2005.
Jim post a long and detailed description of the Sepoy Mutiny and compares it to possible events in Iraq. Quite chilling actually. 78 comments Sep, 2005.
Jim finds video game simulations and the potential giant mess to come in Iran. 97 comments Oct, 2005.
John M. Ford Misc
John M. Ford Billie Holliday/Judith Miller/Vallerie Plame song lyrics...My old Plame. 26 comments Oct, 2005.
Medicine/Emergency Response
Index of Medical Posts by Jim Macdonald. He's covered this far better than I'm going to be able to, though I'll continue my own posts in the category. 61 comments 2005-present.
"Emergency preparedness redux" Links to earlier post on same, primarily indexed for comment thread. 43 comments Aug, 2005.
John M. Ford on the emotional symptoms of stress, a little call for a timeout in the midst of the emotional firestorm of Hurricane Katrina. 50 comments Sep, 2005.
Teresa on walking away from disaster–evacuation on foot, the good, the bad, etc. 37 comments Sep, 2005.
Emergencies and the Incident Command System–a look at emergency response. Inspired in part by how things should have worked for Katrina. 104 comments Sep, 2005.
Jim on heart attacks. 63 comments Sep, 2005.
Jim Macdonald discusses Triage in great detail. 108 comments Sep, 2005.
Poetry
Teresa asks about Dives and Lazarus "My question concerns Dives and Lazarus, a traditional ballad, which rhymes (or almost rhymes) the second and fourth line of every stanza—except when it doesn’t. Here are its last four stanzas, two of which don’t even pretend to rhyme...Anyone know what’s going on there—alternate versions, regional pronunciations, famous typos?" 169 comments Sep, 2005.
Politics
Urban myths about irresponsible lawsuits, and how they drive unnecessary "tort reform" 25 comments Aug, 2005.
Teresa on dumb beyond words...Michelle Malkin demonstrates the "mind" that made her famous in re: the "crescent" (dread symbol of Islam...oh noes) design of the flight 93 memorial. 93 comments Sep, 2005. Followup post here in which the stupid is more thoroughly trashed. 482 comments Jan, 2005.
The nine Senators who voted against the anti-torture amendment as ringwraiths. Fitting analogy. 106 comments Oct, 2005.
Tom Delay's long expected indictment. 130 comments Sep, 2005.
Recipes
Habaneros and spicy oil made therefrom. 208 comments Sep, 2005.
Religion
John M. Ford's first post as a frontpager: "The object of the game is to create the Table of Contents for the Graphic Bible" and his take thereon. 63 comments Aug, 2005.
Tragedies, Great and Small
Hurricane Katrina, a bunch of posts with a bunch of comments Aug, 2005. Handing over the reins of government to people who have an ideological bias against government working and huge incentive therefore to make sure that it doesn't is insane. This disaster and the Bush response make me too mad to be coherent, but it's something that should go in the index. So, a non-comprehensive Making Light Katrina sequence: One,
two,
three,
four,
five,
six,
seven.
It continues in September: Eight,
nine,
ten,
eleve (right wingers and survivalism)
twelve,
thirteen, (Barbara Bush...argh!)
fourteen
fiteen,
sixteen, (may Michael Brown ultimately get what her deserves for leaving Americans to die in NO)
seventeen, (Blackwater in NO)
eighteen,
nineteen, (blocked bridges and the people who blocked them)
twenty, (the @*&%#% Blame Game meme)
twenty-one, (using force to prevent trapped citizens of NO to flee into the suburbs)
twenty-two, (the press actually doing its job in Bush's America-miraculous)
teenty-three, (Michael @$#&@$ Brown rehired at FEMA).
Uncategorized (Thus Far)
Rob Schneider, gets a tremendously well deserved smackdown on Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo from roger Ebert. That's gotta hurt. 101 comments Aug, 2005.
Right wingers writing dirty books, an informed commentary by a genuine editor. 190 comments Oct, 2005.
"Quentin Tarantino’s Republic Dogs" the script. Pretty much what you're imagining, yes. 35 comments Oct, 2005.
Jim on model railroad miniatures with links to some wonderous miniature slums. 54 comments Oct, 2005.
Movie trailers and trailer remixing. 37 comments Sep, 2005.
Jim on time as derived from the world around us. Sundials, etc. 67 comments Sep, 2005.
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