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1. A Memory of Wind By Rachel Swirsky

   After Helen and her lover Paris fled to Troy, her husband King Menelaus called his allies to war. Under the leadership of King Agamemnon, the allies met in the harbor at Aulis. They prepared to sail for Troy, but they could not depart, for there was no wind.

   Kings Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Odysseus consulted with Calchas, a priest of Artemis, who revealed that the angered goddess was balking their departure. The kings asked Calchas how they might convince Artemis to grant them a wind. He answered that she would only relent after King Agamemnon brought his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, to Aulis and sacrificed her to the goddess.

   http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=58211

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   —Huffduffed by Jax 3 months ago

2. Scales by Alastair Reynolds

   Fresh from signing a £1m deal with Gollancz, the science fiction author Alastair Reynolds has penned a story for the Guardian which follows a new recruit sent out to battle in an interstellar war.

   Nineteen years after his first short story appeared, and nine years after the first of his eight novels was published, Scales is Reynolds’ first foray into militaristic SF. In it, he explores the transformations war imposes on soldiers as his hero Nico’s mission evolves into something stranger than he could have possibly imagined.

   Reynolds is best-known for his mastery of space opera – the SF sub-genre in which the stakes are high and the aliens deadly – but, after 16 years working for the European Space Agency, he brings a scientist’s rigour to the genre’s high drama.

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2009/jun/19/alastair-reynolds-scales-short-story

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   Tagged with science fiction sci-fi book:author=alastair reynolds short story podcast:type=book reading read:by=alastair reynolds

   —Huffduffed by Jax 3 months ago

3. Low Rising by The Swell Season

   A track from The Swell Season’s upcoming album Strict Joy.

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   Tagged with music:artist=the swell season music:album=strict joy music:genre=folk

   —Huffduffed by Jax 3 months ago

4. Silver Linings by Tim Pratt

   Silver Linings by Tim Pratt

   "Cloudmining is a rough business at the best of times, mostly because everyone on the ground wants to kill you, but I had more particular problems…."

   http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=55339

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   Tagged with short story fantasy podcast:type=audio book book:author=tim pratt read:by=tim pratt podcast:type=book reading

   —Huffduffed by Jax 4 months ago

5. On Point: How Cooking Made Us Human

   We were apes before we were humans. But humans were the onetime apes who ultimately mastered fire and cooked.

   Primatologist and anthropologist Richard Wrangham says that in evolutionary terms, that made all the difference. And not just because it put flambé on the menu.

   Fire meant proto-humans could cook. Cooking, he says, meant they could get dense, empowering nourishment. Then came bigger brains, a different body and — voila! — homo sapiens. Complete, he says, with a social structure built around that fire.

   http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/09/how-cooking-made-us-human

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   Tagged with food evolution science book:title=catching fire: how cooking made us human book:author=richard wrangham

   —Huffduffed by Jax 5 months ago

6. A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes

   A Weeping Czar Beholds the Fallen Moon by Ken Scholes

   "Frederico leaned close to smell the poison on his thirteenth wife’s cold, dead lips. It tickled his nose and he resisted the strong desire to kiss her that suddenly overcame him….."

   http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=story&id=13879

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   Tagged with short story fantasy podcast:type=audio book book:author=ken scholes read:by=mary robinette kowal

   —Huffduffed by Jax 5 months ago

7. See, Sort, Sketch: Pen & Paper Design

   The rich world of human behavior is fascinating to observe, yet difficult to interpret. People’s goals and motivations lay hidden beneath behaviors, masked from sight until user research and analysis exposes them. But is the purpose of these insights really just a report to hand off to a design or engineering team? Kate Rutter says, "No!"

   Increasingly, research and design teams are including other stakeholders in the analysis process and using hands-on, visual tools to bring clarity and insight. How is this done? By using the analog favorites of pen and paper.

   In this talk, you’ll get a taste-test of methods and activities that leverage the power of pen and paper as open, participatory tools in the research analysis process.

   http://chi.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail4165.html?loomia_si=t0:a16:g4:r2:c0:b27414078

   Slideshow PDF: http://www.intelleto.com/BayCHI2009/BayCHI_presentation_06-09-09_PRESENTATION-share.pdf

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   Tagged with ux design sketching process

   —Huffduffed by Jax 5 months ago

8. A Study In Emerald - Neil Gaiman

   Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman. A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting detective and his narrator friend solve the mystery of a murdered German noble. But with its subtle allusions and surprise ending, this mystery hints that the real fun in solving this case lies in imagining all the details that Gaiman doesn’t reveal, and challenges listeners to be detectives themselves.

   Story as PDF: http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf

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   Tagged with book:author=neil gaiman book:title=fragile things short story podcast:type=book reading read:by=neil gaiman recording:by=harper collins

   —Huffduffed by Jax 5 months ago

9. In These Arms by The Swell Season

   A track from The Swell Season’s upcoming album Strict Joy.

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   Tagged with music:artist=the swell season music:album=strict joy

   —Huffduffed by Jax 5 months ago

10. Iron and Wine - Trapeze Swinger Live

    Two more live mp3s at http://anyones-guess.blogspot.com/2007/11/sam-beam-live.html

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    —Huffduffed by Jax 5 months ago

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