Linkfest 2016-12-23
IT Jobs Explained
I'm sure this applies to more than just IT.
How a Pen and Paper RPG Brought 'Star Wars' Back From the Dead
A more detailed look at the way West End Games' Star Wars RPG set the stage for everything we have
Science Fiction
Thrawn Trilogy Book Review
Heir to the Empire
by Timothy Zahn
Bantam Spectra, 1992
$5.99; 404 pages
ISBN 0-553-29612-4
Dark Force Rising
by Timothy Zahn
Bantam Spectra, 1993
$5.99; 439 pages
ISBN 978-0-553-56071-8
The Last Command
by Timothy Zahn
Bantam Spectra, 1994
$5.99; 467 pages
ISBN 0-553-56492-7
Outside of the original
The Long View 2004-06-14: Cracks in the Wall
Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers is beloved of military men. Many of Jerry Pournelle's books have the same audience. What is really remarkable about Heinlein as an author is that he managed to write three cult classics with non-overlapping audiences: Starship Troopers, The Moon is a Harsh
The Long View 2004-04-27: The Darwin Award Ceremonies
Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry wrote just this week that the birth rate in the United States now stands at lowest level ever recorded. It turns out the anti-natalist political program branded as reproductive rights has succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its creators. Like many such things, it has also taken on
The Long View 2004-01-05: Duk Soop
I greatly enjoyed Babylon 5 when it was on television, and I appreciated John's allusion to it here.
Duk Soop
At this point in the Democratic primary campaign, I suppose that Howard Dean must be feeling a little like Ambassador Londo in the first season of the Babylon
LinkFest 2016-03-26
Holy Saturday Edition
Ruby Slippers
Gabriel Rossman makes a persuasive case that social construction is real, but the concept is mostly used by people who don't understand it, and have no sense of proportion.
How Does America "Reshore" Skills that have Disappeared?
The first couple of
The Long View 2003-11-20: Snappy Answers
John's 2003 ponderings about Mars in this post and the last are fortuitous, since I just reviewed the Martian by Andy Weir. This is exactly the kind of thing that got me interested in science, and directed me to physics as a field of study. Planetary science has