Constitution Hill

• M John Harrison says:
  Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.
• I Sense Your Confusion, TIME …
  … as to “Who Can Say What?”. Allow me to clarify: Cackling, rich old white men are not allowed to call innocent hard-working scholarship girls “nigger whores.” Didn’t think that was so hard, but … hey. Glad to be of help.

• Slaughterhouse

  Kieron Gillen on Vonnegut’s death

• Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture’s Novelist, Dies – New York Times Obituary

• Usually it’s not, in fact, a glass of water

  Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 top writings tips.

• BoingBoing – Remembering Kurt Vonnegut

  I hope he knew he meant so much to so many people.

• Why I knew the Da Vinci code sucked ass from the very first word.
• Penny Arcade! – Lake Franzibald
  “Being outraged online is a form of entertainment, and refreshing a thread to receive a hit of consensus packs the thrill of genuine activism without requiring any sweat.”
  (tags: c)

So, Kurt ’s up in heaven now.

Adieu.

When the last living thing

has died on account of us,

how poetical it would be

if Earth could say,

in a voice floating up

perhaps

from the floor

of the Grand Canyon,

“It is done.”

People did not like it here.

• The Kingdom Poster
  “I like my heroes to be overtly heroic and my enemies to be faceless villains from a foreign culture. That’s why I like this poster and American politics.”
• YouTube – Alan Partridge World Cup Countdown
  thriker! he must have a foot like a traction engine! etc…

• Microsoft is Dead

• Rossignol » Trapped
  “He gets so angry about games because he loves them, but they’re not what he needs them to be.”

• Questions From Your Girlfriend That Aren’t Really Questions
  I was trying to think of Q’s that guys ask that are similar. But I couldn’t… My favourite girlfriend Q – “Are you wearing that?” aka, “get changed now, you frumpy numpty.”
• The Easter Bunny Hates You

“Cats as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by that fact that in Ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.”
_{- P G Wodehouse}

• Are consumer products made to break?
  “the problem with Americans is not that we’re materialistic, but that we’re not materialistic enough. We don’t genuinely love our things; what we love is exchanging them for newer things.”
  (tags: society)

• The phony middle, and why we fall for it
  “people tend to use the opinions they’re hearing as a gauge of what is possible and then reject the “extremes” of the available range of opinion and put themselves in the middle.” Which is why ’shaping the debate’ is so effective.

• alterati » “Wake Up Neo – there is no counterculture, you twit.”
  “Any element of punk, underground, beatnik, hippy, psychedelic, straight edge, or occult culture will be co-opted by the straight shooters the moment the shtick becomes profitable.”
  (tags: society culture)