Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-24-2009

• Author of book about black teen has white face on the cover
  Strangely, is less than happy about it.
  (tags: books publishing race writing racism media)
• Lawyer Jailed for Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years
  Longest ever sentence for contempt of court is lifted.
  (tags: law crime wtf contempt)
• The Rebuilding of Hobbiton Has Begun!
  Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
  (tags: lotr movies PeterJackson thehobbit)
• Top 10 Geeky Things You Don't Know About Romance Writers
  A certain editor, who shall remain nameless, ended her wedding reception with a guitar hero duel. And during the weeks leading up to the duel, the husband and wife to be kept sneaking home to get in extra practice time before the big day.
  (tags: funny geeky romance writing)
• Software Engineering: Dead?
  The truth being that it was never alive in the first place...
  (tags: programming software development engineering management softwareengineering)
• 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
  From 8-track to modems via pay phones and Starbuck being a man...
  (tags: technology culture geek future funny list)
• A visualization of why 1/4 + 1/16 + 1/64 + 1/256 + ... = 1/3
  Very nicely done.
  (tags: math visualization)
• Suddenly Last Supper
  A collection of pop-culture last supper homages.
  (tags: art humor lastsupper parody culture religion)