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Fredric Brown
Frederic Brown (1906-72): Fredric Brown was a man who hated to write, but absolutely loved putting words together. It’s a paradox he would have probably enjoyed.
Bibliography, collections and anthologies, and the complete text of his short-short The End.
There are no rules. You can write a story, if you wish, with no conflict, no suspense, no beginning, middle or end. Of course, you have to be regarded as a genius to get away with it, and that’s the hardest part — convincing everybody you’re a genius.
— Fredric Brown
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Thermobaric Bombs
Wired News reports about the US army’s plans to arm its soldiers in the future with thermobaric bullets, portable fuel-air bombs.
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Alan Moore, Grant Morrison News
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Reports that Alan Moore plans to retire this year to mark his fiftieth birthday, and provides details of tribute books to be published for the occassion. I’ll probably forget to order them, so there’s something someone can get me for my birthday, should they be so inclined…
Also, details of a talk Grant Morrison gave at the Institute Of Contempory Art in London, including his plans to make the DC Universe self-aware (it’s complex enough to support sentience, he suggests), intimations of the coming eschaton, and his love for cats.
All this through LinkMachineGo, of course.
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Other People’s Links
Some links from DiePunyHumans
Send Back the Statue of Liberty takes the next logical step in America’s anti-French protests. God, I hope it’s a parody, but after that Two Towers site, you can’t be sure…
Exactitudes is an online exhibit of sets of photographes, of people dressed the same and in the same pose. Interesting anthropological study, which demonstrates Amotz Zahavi’s point about how dress codes are used to set the ground rules for social contests.
Also, two science stories: Hubble Pictures Too Crisp, Challenging Theories of Time and Space and Toxin threat to Inuit food: Researchers have for the first time documented “unacceptable levels” of man-made environmental toxins in the Inuit population of Greenland.
. Good. Now that they’re bookmarked, I don’t have to actually read them…