ML Indices Update Nov-Dec 2005

Index Updates From Nov, Dec 2005

BTW, though there is some stuff that's gone into both inidices, there is material in the Writers Index that is not in the general index and vice-versa, so the completest would be advised to check both.

Writers Index update

Conventions

Publish America does actual service, by generating this thread wherin there is much of use to writers on how not to behave at cons. 133 comments Nov, 2005.

F&SF As A Genre

"The Visual Index of SF Cover Art" Just what it sounds like. Go look. 41 comments Nov, 2005.

Literary Scams

Martha Ivery goes to jail and the world is slightly better place. Who is Martha Ivery? One of the worst lit agency scammers in recent history. 25 comments Dec, 2005.

Vanity Press

PQN (Print Quality Needed) as the latest iteration of attempts to make vanity publishing sound like it's something else. 61 comments Dec, 2005.

Writing Craft

"The Defence of Duffer’s Drift" Patrick links to an online copy of same. Excellent introduction to the basics of combat and tactics for writers. 15 comments Nov, 2005.


General Index Updates

Civil Rights and Liberties

George Bush, Oathbreaker. The one to uphold the constitution, specifically the search and seizures bits. 138 comments Dec, 2005.

Ghosts of the Great War

Ghosts of the great war 2005. #4 in an ongoing series. A retrospective in multi-link format. 107 comments Nov 11, 2005.

Iraq/Afghanistan Wars

Peter Pace (chair joint chiefs) tells Rumsfeld he's wrong live on national TV, in re: a soldier's responsibility to halt abuse of prisoners. 128 comments Nov, 2005.

Medicine/Emergency Response

Jim on Hypothermia. 417 comments Dec, 2005.

Jim on Diabetes. 128 comments Nov, 2005.

Mourning

Robert Sheckley. 43 comment Dec, 2005.

Music

A very different Christmas carol...a drunk's song, in Latin. 62 comments Dec, 2005.

John M. Ford lyrics for songs about buildings and food. Flatiron building/Lullaby of Broadway. 19 comments Nov, 2005.

Poetry

Constructing meaning entirely with monosyllabic words. Cool. 112 comments Dec, 2005.

Politics

Tom Delay and the Marianas Islands. Sure, why not add slavery to torture and aggressive war in the things Republicans support? 192 comments Dec, 2005.

And, in the same vein as the entry above this one "A proposal prohibiting defense contractor involvement in human trafficking for forced prostitution and labor was drafted by the Pentagon last summer, but five defense lobbying groups oppose key provisions" "Kidnapping, then torture, then domestic wiretapping, and now slavery? I’m agog. What’s next, cannibalism?” 90 comments Dec, 2005.

Cheney, VP for torture at America inc. 58 comments Nov, 2005.

The "Dirty Hippies" were right about war with Iraq. Yuh-huh. 293 comments Nov, 2005.

Recipes

Stuffed Squash Deseret. 80 comments Dec, 2005.

Cooking turkeys, math geek style “For a turkey of greater than ten pounds, the roasting time should be equal to 1.65 times the natural log of the weight of the bird in pounds, cooked at 325 F.” 206 comments Nov, 2005.

Religion

"Pat Robertson preaches gross heresy (again)" calling down destruction on those who disagree with him. Dover PA. 167 comments Nov, 2005.

Scams

Martha Ivery goes to jail and the world is slightly better place. Who is Martha Ivery? One of the worst lit agency scammers in recent history. 25 comments Dec, 2005.

Wingnuttery

Al Jazeera attacked by the clue free (British spelling edition). I'm speechless. 31 comments Dec, 2005.

The annual war on Christmas fuss Oh noes, they're taking away our Christmas stamps edition. One minor detail, they aren't. 88 comments Dec, 2005.

Uncategorized (Thus Far)

"The Defence of Duffer’s Drift" Patrick links to an online copy of same. Excellent introduction to the basics of combat and tactics for writers. 15 comments Nov, 2005.

Four things meme, as in four jobs you've held, four places you've vacationed, etc. 137 comments Dec, 2005.

Superballs, 250,000 of them bouncing down a hill in San Francisco. Gorgeous. 50 comments Dec, 2005.

Teresa meets The Da Vinci Code, is not impressed. Bad bad cryptography. 293 comments Dec, 2005.

Patrick: remember Pearly Harbor. Timeline of the day. 151 comments Dec, 2005.

Jim on St. Nicholas Eve. 95 comments Dec, 2005.

A rant on the lack of genuine quantization in women's clothes, particularly the difficulty this creates in buying mail order. 226 comments Dec, 2005.

Teresa smells a funny smell...her recently deceased neighbor, as it turns out. 135 comments Nov, 2005. Her recently deceased, murdered neighbor, actually. 510 comments Nov, 2005.

Bad patent office, bad! You clean that up. Patent office issues patent for scientifically ridiculous space ship. Plus dumb POD patents action. 69 comments Nov, 2005.

Life in a museum exhibit, where would you want to be displayed. 43 comments Nov, 2005.