Three Cool Things for Thursday

[tamaranth]

1. The Human Genre Project: a collection of new writing in very short forms — short stories, flash fictions, reflections, poems — inspired by genes and genomics. Conceived by Ken MacLeod, contributors including Ian Watson, Ian Whates, Adam Roberts, Bruce Sterling ...

2. Where I Write: portfolio of photographs of SF/fantasy writers in their natural habitats. Mugshots include realthog, ellen_kushner, yswilce, Delany, Bova, Pohl and a lovely pic of Michael Swanwick, who inspired the project.

2a. It would be very cool to do that on LJ. Come on, writerly types, post a photo!

3. A Happiness Technique that Works. Science! Richard Wiseman! A sample of 26,000 adults! And the most effective technique for happiness? Thinking of something good that happened yesterday.

links via BoingBoing, andrewducker, and somewhere else I've forgotten.

Comments

[andrewducker]

And in return I've rrun off with The Human Genre project, so I can read it tonight :->

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

your Del.icio.us posts are often a goldmine of fascinating timesinks!

[andrewducker]

Thank you!

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Heh. Always good to see the offices of people whose relatives you ... ahem ... know ... [grin]

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

???

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I'm going out with realthog's daughter.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Coo, had no idea! Say hello from me. (When she looks blank: I came to stay in Exeter, with Chris B.)

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

It appears that animals are essential in the writing of sf/fantasy.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Surely you knew this already? It's the ones without animals that I'm suspicious of.