Delicious LiveJournal Links for 6-23-2010

[andrewducker]

• Bloody George's Budget: How bad is it really?
  (tags: budget economics politics uk)
• Palimpsest by Charles Stross - free Hugo-nominated novella
  Just finished reading this. Reminds me a lot of the RPG Continuum (that's a recommendation).
  (tags: fiction books scifi charlesstross)

Comments

[broin.livejournal.com]

Palimpsest?!

Swine!.

[andrewducker]

See also the novel, the Linux disk utility, the journal of The State Historical Society of Iowa, and probably numerous other usages.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Those fuckers.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

It's almost as if people are trying to wipe that name clean and overwrite new creations, over and over again. Like a ... er ... you know, those medieval parchments that kept getting reused. Can't think of the name.

[broin.livejournal.com]

Mad props to you, sir. :D

[soon_lee]

Confusingly both Palimpsest the novella (Charles Stross) & Palimpsest the novel (Catherynne M. Valente) are on this year's Hugo ballot.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

I saw the Reg article last night and it actually managed to make more sense of any budget than any analysis I've read in the standard press in years. Whether the article's right is a different matter, but it's a good read either way.

Even more impressive are the comments. Show me another news site where you'll get that level of intelligent, reasoned, civil commentary, rather than random abuse, thinly-veiled racism, idiocy and a complete lack of a grasp of basic English.

All in all, one of the best pieces I've read in ages, on any topic!

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

Well, there is that one comment where someone asks why the Govt doesn't just print enough extra money to pay off the deficit. Cue about twenty simultaneous references to 'Weimar Republic' and 'Zimbabwe'...

[andrewducker]

Especially as we _have_ been using Quantitative Easing to effectively do just that. But it's something you have to be very careful with, as you effectively devalue your currency, thus making it much harder to then borrow money in the future.

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Okay, maybe the replies did get a little overkill, but at least none were of the "cuz wed be like them <insert racial slur of you choice here> zimbabians" that you'd get from the Daily Mail or the BBC's Have Your Say :)

(Actually even that was too intelligent for the Daily Mail or HYS, sorry :)