Links for 29-03-2007
Lessons from the slush-pile, virtual Amsterdam sells for real money, Gregory Benford’s holiday report…
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1 – What I Learned from Reading Slush
“I learned more from reading slush at the California Quarterly when I was in grad school than in any course I was taking at the time.” Useful tips for aspiring writers, via Scalzi wearing his Ficlets hat.
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2 – Word Spy
“This Web site is devoted to lexpionage, the sleuthing of new words and phrases.” Cool!
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3 – Emerging Asia
“Centauri Dreams is pleased to present the travels of Gregory Benford, just returned from a multi-week journey that took him to Sri Lanka to see Arthur C. Clarke…” … and India, and Singapore. I’m insanely jealous.
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4 – First Hardware to go through Evolution Developed
“Just like in the real world it can take 20 to 30 thousand generations before the system finds the perfect design to solve the problem, but this will happen in just a few seconds…”
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5 – Amsterdam sold for US$50,000
“The Amsterdam sims, a popular Second Life destination with canals, houseboats, and a sexually explicit red light district, sold on eBay for US$50,000 on Monday…”
