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Science Fiction and Fantasy

The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick

Philip Shropshire (spotted commenting on Charles Stross’ blog) has an SF-nal blog here www.majic12.com and also writes Comics reviews for Locus. In that online review (which sent me looking for Top Ten info), he also links to an online copy of Robert Crumb’s comic about PKD, The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

Pain abolitionists

Fulfilling a promise, I’d like to inform the world that my butt hurts.
However, help is on the way:

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life.

[ from Hack The Planet ]

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Software and Programming

Mozillian blogs

I wanted to blog these blogs by Mozilla coders a while ago:

David Hyatt‘s is probably the most interesting for people who are interested in developer gripes, while Matthew Thomas‘s blog is interesting if you care about things like The top ten usability problems in Mozilla.

Once you’ve read a bunch of the Mozillian blogs, you might find this one funny.

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Comics

A Top Ten Who’s Who

Top Ten Who’s Who gives insights into the characters from Alan Moore and Gene Ha’s terrific ensemble cast cop series set in a surreal city where everyone is a superhero.

Also, under their entry for Shock Headed Peter, are several links to Heinrich Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter , a ghastly “classic children’s story” (actually a series of horror fables in verse about misbehaving children). The entry points out that one of these, The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb, inspired the villains in Grant Morrison’s first issue of Doom Patrol:

The door flew open, in he ran,
The great, long, red-legged scissorman.
Oh! children, see! the tailor’s come
And caught our little Suck-a-Thumb.
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Software and Programming

WYSIWYG editing for Mozilla

Sjoerd Visscher has a link to a neat hack which gives you basic WYSIWYG editing in Mozilla, by using Javascript to mimic Internet Explorer’s ContentEditable property.

This was developed by a company called Q42, who are developing something called Xopus.