Monday, September 24, 2007

links for 2007-09-24

• Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day: 12-8-7
  Rad. Prepare to get all timey-wimey, wibbley-wobbly. (Thanks be to Dan.)
  (tags: timetravel)

Friday, June 15, 2007

Butterfly tramplin’

A site analyzing Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies:

Time travel has been a staple in Science Fiction since H.G. Wells. Unfortunately, much of what passes for intelligence in this area is poorly considered.

For example, it is not possible to return to the past without changing the past in some way; nor is it possible to change the future based on information from the future. Doctor Who realized early on that changes to history were hazardous, and avoided them assiduously. Movies built on a time travel theme frequently become dissatisfying when the thread of time is closely examined.

[via Jason "McFly" Kottke]

Friday, January 5, 2007

links for 2007-01-05

• // trevorlittle.com - nyc photos - Power Washing 188 Suffolk St.
  New York is dirrrrrrrty. [via Cuddles]
  (tags: nyc)
• Joe. My. God.: Gay Sheep Debacle Unravels
  [this, on the other hand, is good] (See earlier: hands off gay sheep.)
  (tags: gay)
• Help, My Hard Drive is Full! - TechDigs.net
  How do you conserve precious space if, say, a Mac laptop is your primary machine? Some ideas here.
  (tags: organizerporn macintosh)
• Creating a password to convince yourself you have traveled back in time@Everything2.com
  Believe it or not, this has been very much on my mind recently, for reasons I will not discuss.
  (tags: timetravel)

Thursday, May 9, 2002

To say nothing of the blog…

BOOK 'EM: I shuffled a few things on my reading pile and tore into Chip Kidd's The Cheese Monkeys, a delightful (and physically beautiful) comic novel following a rudderless student through two semesters of art school in the 1950s. Now I'm nearly finished with Connie Willis' thoroughly enjoyable time-travel-mystery-comedy To Say Nothing of the Dog, the first historically speculative sci-fi I've really devoured since Simon Hawke's Time Wars series. (Literati will note Willis' title is derived from the subtitle of Jerome K. Jerome's century-old classic account of Victorian England, Three Men in a Boat.)

Supplemental: The ever-charming Anita Rowland posted some great notes on the historical and literary allusions in To Say Nothing of the Dog in the "Reading and Writing" forum at Bad Hair Days. Good stuff!

Both of my latest reads, I hasten to mention, were sent along as gifts from my wishlist by visitors to The BradLands. I am very, very grateful for the hours of diversion and enjoyment. Thank you.