Young Hae Chang’s OPERATION_NUKOREA is enough to make me actually worry about North Korea a little; moreover, it’s enough to make me worry about the fact that so few people I know here seem worried about North Korea. Via the now-defunct but still cool Magnificent Melting Object, which was once run by someone I bet I would’ve gotten along with.
Category: ASIDES
Solaris author Stanislaw Lem dies
Octavia Butler passed away last month, and now SF author Stanislaw Lem has passed away. SF has lost two bright stars in a short time.
South Korea slaps Microsoft!
Yay!
I can see! I can see!
Maybe there’s hope for my lazy eye yet…
The New York Review of Books: Who Killed Christopher Marlowe?
A fascinating question, isn’t it?
BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | E-bullying on rise, say experts
According to BBC news, experts claim that E-bullying on rise. I wonder what they’re experts in. It seems to me that in a text-saturated space, the smart kids will have the upper hand on the bullies. The problem might just be that parents don’t know how to teach their kids to defend themselves in electronic form, the way bullied lads used to get taught “how to throw a punch” by their fathers in the back yard after they got bullied.
Blogcritics.org: Identity: The Quest for Comfort within Our Skins
Sujatha Bagal weighs in with an opinion post on Blogcritics.org: Identity: The Quest for Comfort within Our Skins, more specifically about the popular literary discussion of what it’s like to be a person of multiple identities. A recommended read for any expat… even I could relate to great chunks of it.
Octavia Butler, age 58, passed away last month.
While I haven’t read anything of her writing yet , I’ve planned to do so for several years. But this sad news matters to anyone who cares about SF literature: Octavia E. Butler has died.
Chevy Tahoe: The Apprentice ®
The most brilliant SUV commercial ever. via Weird is Relative
Memejunk
Another of those timekiller mindkiller meme things, nabbed from LJer typefiend. Beneath the cut, of course.