#255 - Link-o-llection; meme; NaNoWriMo.

Ask-A-Ninja: You Got Questions, Ninja Got Answers.

From the Angry Asian Man comes news of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra, a.k.a. SLOrk.

From the Smart Bitches comes a musing on the value of bad books.

cleolinda does the Twilight movie in fifteen minutes. "I AM VAMPIRE. HEAR ME TWINKLE."

Can't seem to get yer werdz written? Check out Write or Die, a web app where you...well...write or die. Depending on how hard you tweak the settings, non-writing gets punished either with pop-up boxes or with the application actively un-writing what you've written. (Disclaimer: Despite being ridiculously behind in NaNo, I have not tried this out yet.)

I finally upgraded for Firefox 3 (because it became compatible with ljLogin, yay!) and I got this gorgeous steampunkish skin for it.

An article that discusses racial diversity in speculative fiction. Yes, people, it is okay for your main characters to be non-white, non-male, and non-Christian/non-non-theistic! You can still get good stories!

Joel Johnson completely pwns a Motorola astroturfer. I love the parody comments near the end of the article.

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Meme:

Your rainbow is shaded gray and violet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What is says about you: You are a creative person. You appreciate tradition and wisdom that comes with age. You are patient and will keep trying to understand something until you've mastered it. You depend on modern technology and may feel uncomfortable without it.

Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com.

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32,296 / 50,000 (64.6%)

If I can just get to 35k...! I hope to be able to do a post here soon about the various characters, places, and things in Seera Kai, at least the way those things stand now in NaNo. (Most will probably get a huge-ass overhaul once I return in about a year for revisions...)

-Reileen
the Vengabus is coming