Stuff to read, Friday edition

[yendi]

1. The Weekly Standard, which often fails to have any standards at all, published a rather nasty obit for Tom Disch. John Crowley responds.

2. blergeatkitty notes that Mamma Mia has oodles of potential as an MST3K-able movie.

3. Delicious finally gets a new look. And a better domain name.

4. Karen Healey notes some great ways to write a female lead character (link ganked from Charlie Stross, who has other good links at that same post).

5. A number of folks who have been published in Helix have also made their stories available at a new site, one free of Wiliam Sanders and his oh-so-special opinions. Nifty authors here include samhenderson, Eugie Foster, and Janis Ian.

6. Dear Comcast: Suck it.

7. S.A.R.A.H. from Eureka is on Twitter!

8. A collection of Golden Age Book Advertising from the New York Times.

9. The Web of Language nicely takes the air out of the sails of that stupid "If you can read this in English, thank a soldier" bumper sticker.

10. FInally, for the baseball folks who are curious about how the post-deadline waiver situation works, here are some good explanations.

Comments

[litch.livejournal.com]

if the weekly standard had real editors instead of hacks they would have clipped the last paragraph and it would have been a much better obit.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Not to belittle his sentiments, but Mr. Crowley has a thing or two to learn about paragraph breaks.