This weekend's links for your viewing pleasure.
I found some satisfaction in reading the story on Stephen King. While I'm not a huge fan of his or anything, nor have I even read that many of his books, his life story and his accomplishments are always of interest (to me, anyway).
This weekend is going to be filled with a walk/run at the Susan G. Komen event in Dallas (I think it takes place in the Northpark area). My wife's company is sponsoring their willing employees as well as spouses like me, so I'm just following her lead. Then, a bike ride and, on Sunday, what I hope will be the final mowing of the season (the best thing about no more mowing is more time for writing!).
Have a good weekend.
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Earth: A Very Special Place In the Void
You know that "I'm an insignificant dot in the middle of this enormous universe" feeling you get when you stare up into the night sky a little too long? Well, some Oxford scientists think you might be a little more special than that - or at least, the planet you live on is.
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At 61, Stephen King keeps getting better
Scorn, admiration, disdain, esteem, condescension, respect.
These words all describe my attitude, at various times over the last quarter century, to Stephen King, who celebrated his 61st birthday on Sept. 21.
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Getting remaindered is not the end of the line
[…]remaindering - when publishers sell books at massively reduced prices to bargain shops who then offer them at knockdown discounts - happens to most authors at one point or another, whether they are the duds of James's poem or not. (Stephen King even has a rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders.[…])
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Ocean Shows Up In The Middle of Africa
At the same time as Paraguay is drying up, Africa is ripping open, a slow process that will result in the emergence of a whole new ocean, according to Scientific American.
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The Longest Science Fiction Books of All Time
What are the longest books in science fiction, and what do they promise for the insane person who tries to read them?
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Were Pterodactyls Too Heavy to Fly?
Popular images of the prehistoric world are filled with spiny stegosauri, placid brachiosaurs, and rampaging tyrannosaurus rex. But one image we may need to revise is that of pterodactyls flying overhead. New research suggests the winged lizards were far too massive to stay aloft, although some paleobiologists are inclined to disagree.
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