Links for 02-03-2007
Where freelance writing ideas come from, mistakes freelancers make, Claymores with cameras…
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1 – Freelance Writing Ideas – Where Do They Come From?
“My experience tells me it’s easy to find ideas. Ideas are everywhere – the hard part is honing them into something saleable.”
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2 – The SF Site Featured Review: ‘Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker’
Some guy reviews Rucker’s latest short story collection at SF Site.
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3 – Darker Matter – Free Online Science Fiction Magazine
“Welcome to the first issue of Darker Matter – the online science fiction magazine so many worlds have been waiting for.” Uncovered by Big Dumb Object.
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4 – What I Learned About Freelancing as an Editor-in-Chief
‘This is probably terribly unfair, but I just never quite trusted a writer whose letterhead described him or her as a “wordsmith,” a “scrivener,” “écrivain” (with or without the diacritical), or an “ink-stained wretch.”‘
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5 – Data-storing bacteria could last thousands of years
“…scientists there have developed a new technology that uses bacteria DNA as a medium for storing data long-term, even for thousands of years.” They’ve tested that millennial data life-span, then?
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6 – Macroswiss Claymore Camera makes a dumb mine much smarter
“This innovative and inexpensive product is a great tool to avoid the loss of innocent lives by mistake…” Deliberate loss of innocent lives will take more than cheap digicams to prevent, sadly.
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7 – NASA’s future inflatable lunar base
“These 12-foot (3.65 meter) diameter inflatable units could be used as building blocks for a future lunar base. Right now, a prototype is tested at NASA’s Langley Research Center.” Er, asteroid damage, anyone?
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“At the same time that I’m doing this research, I’m reading a book set in a non-specific Fantasy When-n-Where. And what this book sorely needs is latrines.” Madeleine Roberts on research for novelists.
