{"id":3048,"date":"2005-08-09T16:05:44","date_gmt":"2005-08-09T23:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/08\/09\/3048.html"},"modified":"2005-08-09T16:05:44","modified_gmt":"2005-08-09T23:05:44","slug":"items-browser-window-closeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/08\/09\/items-browser-window-closeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Items: Browser window closeout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These items have no theme (well, okay, maybe \"gender and genre\"?); just wanting to close some browser windows.  I think I got several of these from Cheryl, but I've lost track.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Mars_Express\/SEMGKA808BE_0.html\">Water ice in crater at Martian north pole<\/a>.\"  It looks a little like a fried egg, over easy.<\/li>\n<li>Bit of a <a href=\"http:\/\/selahmarch.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/people-are-talking.html\">kerfuffle over this year's Rita Awards ceremony<\/a>, that being the Romance Writers of America award.  Apparently the ceremony featured \"a video and audio rehash of every national and international tragedy that's taken place since 1980, set to a back-drop of kicky tunes from each year represented.\"  They asked Nora Roberts to MC the ceremony, but she refused; I gather it's her who posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/adwoff.com\/cgi-bin\/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001466;p=0\">letter explaining why she declined<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/regender.com\/index.html\">Regender<\/a> is a fascinating little toy\/tool that lets you view any given web page with the gender of gendered pronouns and nouns (and even some people's names) reversed. Badgerbag has some <a href=\"http:\/\/badgerbag.typepad.com\/badgerbag\/2005\/08\/regendering_the.html\">discussion<\/a>, cogent and interesting as usual.  I'm tempted to redirect all of the links I post through that filter for a while, but it seems to be a little slow (at least with the connection I'm using) so I'll probably refrain.  When I'm on a faster connection, I may try to run some online hard sf stories through it.  .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Note that the tool also provides buttons across the top to change to nongendered terms and so on.<\/li>\n<li>While I'm on the subject of gender, I may as well mention a new sf anthology, <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.eircom.net\/~albedo1\/html\/aeon_titles_0.html\">Emerald Eye<\/a>, just released by Aeon Press.  It features \"the very best of modern science fiction, fantasy and horror\" mixed with \"highly imaginative work from mainstream masters.\"  Eighteen stories&#8212;only one of which is by a woman (Anne McCaffrey).  I don't know enough about Irish sf authors to know whether there are any other Irish women writing \"imaginative work,\" but it does seem likely that there might be.  Oh, well.<\/li>\n<li>I haven't been paying attention to the shuttle the last few days, so I'm pleased and relieved to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/08\/09\/science\/space\/09cnd-shuttle.html?ex=1281240000&en=bbf07907462a8915&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss\">Discovery has returned safely home<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookstandard.com\/bookstandard\/community\/commentary_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001002112\">Attributes of good interviewees<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Cheryl continues to provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emcit.com\/wordpress\/index.php?cat=26\">lots of WorldCon-report links<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>PNH writes about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/pnh\/14932.html\">reforming the Best Pro Editor Hugo award<\/a>, only I'm not seeing a link to the final proposal.  Anyone got one?  If I had a faster connection, I'd spend some time Googling for it, but I'm about out of time for now anyway&#8212;time to go find out how to print a cover letter, I think.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These items have no theme (well, okay, maybe &#8220;gender and genre&#8221;?); just wanting to close some browser windows. 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