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Linkfest 2021-09-17: The Great Tree

A thread on the strange connections in technological development. And my favorite comment, a joke about Civilization tech trees. BBC: Saudi Arabia camel carvings dated to prehistoric era The now long defunct Anthropogene blog had some great stuff on the pre-history of Arabia. There was a time when Arabia was

BasedCon Book Sale

Some authors I follow started a new conference this year, and there is a big sale going on because of it right now. Friend of the blog Han Schantz organizes these sales a few times each year. Here are some selections from the sale that I have reviewed, and free

Antibody titers to rule them all

I was looking through the FDA briefing document for the upcoming advisory committee meeting on the Pfizer 3rd dose booster shots for their COMIRNATY vaccine [previously known as BNT162b2]. I found it a little lighter on data than I expected, with the primary focus on antibody levels in the blood

Lay the Hate: Forgotten Ruin Book 4 Review

Lay the Hate is the fourth book in the Forgotten Ruin book series, Jason Anspach and Nick Cole’s prose poem to the Rangers and D&D. [Amazon link] In book four, the Rangers decide to get into the domain-level game, Talker has an urban adventure, and the best

Linkfest 2021-09-10: The Suck Button

The illustrations in this week’s linkfest are from Robert McCall (1919 - 2010), NASA’s visual historian and Arizona resident. I had seen this Far Side cartoon when I was a kid, and it seemed funny at the time. Little did I realize that it had a real story

The Long View 2008-10-11: The Crystallization of the West and the Election of 2008

John J. Reilly here alludes to, but does not name, Modern Monetary Theory, the slightly batshit but so far unrefuted idea that countries which control their own money supply can spend, borrow, and tax without constraint of tax receipts. It sounds nuts. But it also keeps working. In much the

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume 2 on Sale on Amazon

The Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser Volume Two by Fritz Leiber is on sale today on Amazon for $2.99 USD. This is 90% off the rather comical list price of $32 USD for three ebooks, but the sale is at about the price point I look for