Tuesday linkdump

[yendi]

Yesterday was server-upgrade day, so I was mostly not on the intarwebs. Playing catch-up now.

1. There's a Chef Duff minimate! Complete with chainsaw (because that's how you make cakes, right?).

2. Rotten Tomatoes has a Coraline sneak peak.

3. Best. Worldcon report. Evar.

4. Orson Scott Card: Homophobic Humpty Dumpty.

5. Seth Green on Heroes!

6. The 20 most addictive browser games. I'll vouch for Kingdom of Loathing, of course.

7. Seven things to never say to a customer service rep, and seven things to definitely say.

8. Bacon: Less inflammatory than tilapia (ganked from rubian77).

9. I missed Martha Plimpton singing the theme song to the Jeffersons? Noooo!

10. Finally, Patrick Nielsen Hayden notes the lack of Hugo winners under the age of 45. In comments, Elizabeth Bear notes the Worldcon/Wiscon gap. Others note the price factor of Worldcon (sorry, but when you buy memberships to Wiscon, Boskone, Minicon, Arisia, and Readercon for the same total price, it's hard to look at a very tight budget and even think about blowing it on one con). The comments keep bringing up more and more interesting points on SF, writing, cons, fandom, and other stuff. Read the whole thread.

Comments

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

3. It's true, I didn't want to tell people because I'm still dealing with the trauma.

[yendi]

Fortunately, everyone on my FL and my Google Reader feedlist seems to have survived.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

By "everyone" they meant "everyone who is not on the internet."

[yendi]

True. And those folks don't really count, anyway. If you're not online by now, you're pretty much meant to be bear food.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Oh! I almost forgot, we have something for you. Nothing big, just something we picked up that we thought you might be interested in. So we might have to come over for a few minutes some time this week.

[yendi]

Ooh, stuff! I like stuff!

I think we're around pretty much all week (until Friday, when the Invasion of the Grandparents begins) -- just let us know when's best.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'll check with lynx tonight to see what all we have going on.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

And Cracked Dot Com has a, well, cracked rant (including some, um, amusing visuals) in re: Orson Scott Card's "overthrow the gay-lovin' government" rant. Fight rants with rants!