Interesting Links for 11-06-2012

[andrewducker]

• Various animals riding tortoises. Anyone know what the one at the top left is?
  (tags: kitten animals cute )
• Hamlet the Mini Pig Goes Down the Stairs - an adorable video
  (tags: viaSkreidle video cute pigs )
• The Real UK Citizenship Test - I got 9/10, how do you score?
  (tags: funny satire citizenship uk )
• “Run,” Bakri Says. A powerful short story of save points, lost lives, and the consequences of technology and war.
  (tags: technology computergames terrorism war scifi shortstory )
• Majority of MSPs back gay marriage. (69 pro, 9 against, 51 undeclared)
  (tags: scotland relationships lgbt )
• The Pixar story rules (or, at least, a version thereof)
  (tags: pixar stories storytelling writing )
• 8 Tiny Things That Stopped Suicides (The moral being that some people just need a tiny ray of light to grab on to)
  (tags: suicide )
• How Inglourious Basterds links to the other Tarantino movies
  (tags: QuentinTarantino movies )
• 6 Movie and TV Universes That Overlap in Mind-blowing Ways
  (tags: movies )
• David Cameron decides children should earn their keep, puts eight-year-old daughter to work in local pub.
  (tags: davidcameron )
• The sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
  (tags: penguins antarctic sex )
• Betteridge's Law of Headlines - is it true?
  (tags: headline questions )

Comments

[andrewducker]

I've liked some of his stuff more than others. Sauerkraut station also worked for me, but his funny short on cheap interstellar flights bounced off me. But yes :->

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Sauerkraut Station was the first story of his I read, and liked it a great deal. Which piece was that re: cheap interstellar flights?

[andrewducker]

http://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/space-travel/ferrett-steinmetz/in-the-unlikely-event

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Not bad, but I wouldn't read it again or recommend it to others.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've read a couple of his stories, and they mostly seemed "70% very good, 30% not working". But I liked "Run" quite a bit, I was disappointed to see a review dismissing it as a video game story: they didn't seem to notice the "well thought out time travel" or the "sympathetic portrayal of arabic terrorists", which I thought were excellent?

[andrewducker]

Yeah. It was, presumably, inspired by the thought "What if real life was like computer games." - but even if there was no computer-game link then the basic idea worked very well.