Archive for May, 2009

links for 2009-05-31

The Firefox Users Manual – A Beginner's Guide to Firefox Browser
25 writers (some of them from Mozilla) collaborated over two days to produce an online 110 pages long Firefox Manual.
It’s a visual guide (with plenty of screenshots) to help you learn everything about Firefox browser from using tabs to downloading files to using themes & [...]

links for 2009-05-26

What happens to bright young female achievers? – Columns – livemint.com
The social conditioning of an either/or attitude to marriage and career has undergone a huge change in the past few years, primarily because of economic realities and the necessity for two-income households. But dig deeper and you will find that attitudes have not really changed. [...]

links for 2009-05-18

Salon.com Life | Stop worrying about your children!
You want kids to feel like the world isn't so dangerous. You want to teach them how to cross the street safely. You want to teach them that you never go off with a stranger. You teach them what to do in an emergency, and then you assume [...]

links for 2009-05-17

Final Nebula Awards Ballot : The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
This year’s final Nebula Awards ballot has been released. Congrats to all of the F&SF authors who made the cut:
* Kiosk by Bruce Sterling
* Memorare by Gene Wolfe
* Stars Seen Through Stone [...]

links for 2009-05-13

Wired 14.11: Very Short Stories
"Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
- Margaret Atwood"
Some amazing gems…
(tags: writing Literature fiction stories wired)

links for 2009-05-11

Phillip Toledano – Days with My Father
An amazing page…with great pics
(tags: inspiration story parents photography photos fathers)