The malcontents from Clarion South Apartment 336 (Ben, Steph, Su Lynn and myself) are proud to announce the arrival of the world’s first 4D blog. (Viewing goggles optional.  Imax version subject to demand).

The Long Write
http://thelongwrite.com/

* More insightful than the Collected Twitter Posts of Jar Jar Binks.

* More controversial than the implementation of decimal time.

* More entertaining than reading a history of object-oriented management strategies written in binary.

* Filled with more Fail than AmazonFail, RaceFail and the Fail Whale combined.

* Now with 20% more monkeys.

For your reading enjoyment we present the wise words and thoughtful thoughts of the unstoppable Sean Williams.

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/03/sean-williams-interview-2/

http://thelongwrite.com/2010/02/03/sean-williams-interview-2/

The Death of the Slush Pile
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703414504575001271351446274.html

For The Love of God, People, The Slush Pile Isn’t Dead
http://therumpus.net/2010/01/for-the-love-of-god-people-the-slush-pile-isnt-dead/

A long, but interesting article on James Patterson (who has more NY Times bestsellers than anyone else).
James Patterson Inc.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24patterson-t.html?pagewanted=all

Mystery visitor to Poe’s grave is a no-show
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_en_ot/us_poe_mystery_visitor

The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/01/the-monetization-paradox-or-wh.html

The Future of Air Travel

The Secret Cities of Yemen
http://trifter.com/asia-pacific/the-secret-cities-of-yemen/

The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu
http://www.cheryl-morgan.com/?p=7612

Do You Thinking Teaching Fighting Skills Could Honor the Lord?

Video game success may be in the mind, study finds
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8471182.stm

The Writer Who Tried to Vanish
http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/

How Can I Get My … (What people searching google are looking for)
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=704

The Significant Objects Project
http://www.predictablyirrational.com/?p=708

How to Avoid Camera Loss
http://www.dailygifblog.com/2009/12/how-to-avoid-camera-loss.html

Haitians to blame: Robertson
http://www.theage.com.au/world/haitians-to-blame-robertson-20100114-ma3i.html

Ekaterina Sedia: On exoticism of language
http://fishmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/01/on-exoticism-of-language.html

Inside Australia’s Cyber Security Operations Centre
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Inside-the-Defence-Signals-Directorate/0,130061744,339300441,00.htm

Chinese Farmer Builds Robot Army
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/12/08/chinese-farmer-builds-robot-army-cybernauts-move/

Drake Equation explains lack of aliens, girlfriends
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/13/drake-equation-expla.html

A couple of fun articles on the Guardian about how scary books and movies for children should be.

Maurice Sendak tells parents worried by Wild Things to 'go to hell'

Do you know what today's kids need? Thumb amputation, that's what

LiveJournal user Pabba has made some fun cartoon images of his favorite genre authors.

I’m a fan of most of the writers on the list.  I especially like the version of Jeff VanderMeer with a pirate eyepatch.

http://pabba.livejournal.com/250328.html