C.J. Moseley's Blog, page 179
October 10, 2013
Social Justice League
mymusicalrhapsody:
Social Justice…
Social Justice League
Social Justice League
Would have been better if Soops had said “shake a leg”
October 9, 2013
lifehackable:
More Life Hacks Here
I think they meant…
I think they meant Beetles…
I can see Ringo and Paul being chased down to see if they taste like apples.
October 8, 2013
sarahj-art:
Okay, I admit to laughing while making this one.
Okay, I admit to laughing while making this one.
October 6, 2013
scificity:
http://scificity.tumblr.com Imperial Walker
Ha!
October 5, 2013
Wow… Google Pagespeed
If anything goes wrong (and I'm sure eventually it will), let me know and I'll disable it again, but for now I am totally impressed with the results.
First, google let me write a trilogy of novels while walking about and tending to children (thanks to google docs), now it lets me spew vacuous inanities at the universe, I'm so impressed I might have to get an Android phone...
Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here’s why.
Starting today, PopularScience.com will no longer accept comments on new articles. Here’s why.
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A politically motivated, decades-long war on expertise has eroded the popular consensus on a wide variety of scientifically validated topics. Everything, from evolution to the origins of climate change, is mistakenly up for grabs again. Scientific certainty is just another thing for two people to “debate” on television. And because comments sections tend to be a grotesque reflection of the media culture surrounding them, the cynical work of undermining bedrock scientific doctrine is now being done beneath our own stories, within a website devoted to championing science.
Ah, the Interwebs, fostering honest debate on every subject since 1992, that usually ends by referencing the Nazis.
October 4, 2013
The Moon Is 100 Million Years Younger Than…
The Moon Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Thought
The Moon Is 100 Million Years Younger Than Thought
The moon is quite a bit younger than scientists had previously believed, new research suggests.
The leading theory of how the moon formed holds that it was created when a mysterious planet — one the size of Mars or larger — slammed into Earth about 4.56 billion years ago, just after the solar system came together. But new analyses of lunar rocks suggest that the moon, which likely coalesced from the debris blasted into space by this monster impact, is actually between 4.4 billion and 4.45 billion years old.
The finding, which would make the moon 100 million years younger than previously thought, could reshape scientists’ understanding of the early Earth as well as its natural satellite, researchers said.
October 3, 2013
I love a good robot holocaust…
I love a good robot holocaust…
October 2, 2013
Writing Ironmaster – a mosaic novel
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Philip James de Loutherbourg's 'Coalbrookdale at night'[/caption]A mosaic novel is one of those bizarre ways of telling a story where you kind of throw stuff together that tells the story from unrelated points of view, with extras like poetry, images, news headlines, fortune cookie transcripts or whatever really. Usually in most mosaic novels there is a central story, which may stand as a novella in its own right; the other short stories are connected, all be it obliquely, to the central novella.
I haven't even looked at the main novella concept much, but the planning is done, I've just got to turn the rough plans into sketches and the sketches into drafts, and then edit, edit, edit. So far the stories have been a little light on the steam-punk tropes and are closer in tone to dark fairytales or horror stories, but there are only three written so far.
Ginny Greenteeth - Is a dark fairy-tale, plain and simple. It relates to another story later in the Arc and references the ancient shropshire "Mermaid" Ginny Greenteeth (who also made a bit of a cameo in the Harry Potter books as the "Grindylows" who are technically a more northern version of the spirit. I've twisted my own way though to reflect the steam-punk vibe of my book. This story is from early in the book, and may actually be the first story.
A Maid's Tale - This is a fairly simple tale (a little on the dark side, but nothing too terrible) that is told in a series of letters from a young woman who enters domestic service after her Father's death. It actually fills in some background information around the other stories in the mosaic, and the letters themselves provide a later vital clue for someone. I'm thinking that this story should come quite late, long after many of the events described have happened to other people.
Beneath the Burning Sky of Bedlam - This is a prose picture of the alternate Severn gorge, with some plot points added. It's quite short, and is from about midway through the novel.
Treatise on the inexplicable ennui inherent in all souls on a monday morning. - A rough poem intended to be a song by the in world Punk-Metal band "Chierosyphon". Just another part of the 'Mosaic' and features some fruity and ripe language, exactly like any Punk-Metal song from the 80s.
That's it so far, but I'll get back to you when I've a little more done
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