An absolutely splendid week at the Watcher’s Council
Bookworm on Jan 08 2010 at 4:36 pm | Filed under: Watcher of Weasels
It’s the rare week when I have an easy time voting at the Watcher’s Council, because I’m usually impressed across the board by the submissions. This week, I was impressed at an even higher level than usual. The posts that Council members submitted, whether their own or someone else’s work, were stellar even by our standards. See what you think of how the vote came out:
Council Submissions
- First place with 3 2/3 points! – American Digest - Lowballing Death: Keeping the Northwest 253 Numbers Down
- Second place with 2 2/3 points – Bookworm Room - San Francisco: America’s homegrown anarchic totalitarianism
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – Joshuapundit - 58% Of Americans Want The Crotch Bomber Waterboarded – And the Left Is Outraged!
- Fourth place with 2/3 point – (Tie*) –Wolf Howling - Knee JERK Reaction Of Progressives
- Fourth place with 2/3 point – (Tie*) –Soccer Dad - The Very Model Of A Modern UN Bureaucrat
- Fifth place with 1/3 point – (Tie*) – The Colossus of Rhodey - Is This ‘Hypocrisy’?
- Fifth place with 1/3 point – (Tie*) – The Glittering Eye - Facing Chinese Mercantilism
- Fifth place with 1/3 point –(Tie*) – Mere Rhetoric - Iran To US: No Visa For Kerry, Please Consider Yourself Officially Humiliated
- Fifth place with 1/3 point –(Tie*) – Right Truth - Jihad vs Terrorism Today
Non-Council Submissions
- First place with 2 2/3 points! – Michael Yon - Into Thine Hand I Commit My Spirit
- Second place with 1 2/3 points – (Tie*) –Jules Crittendon - Damn The Naughts
- Second place with 1 2/3 points– (Tie*) – Villainous Company - The Official 2010 Villainous Company Banned Bloggers List
- Third place with 1 1/3 points – Media Backspin - 10 Significant Articles From the ‘Noughties’ Decade
- Fourth place with 1 point – Next Web - Google Blocking Negative Search Recommendations On Islam – Why?
- Fifth place with 2/3 point (Tie*) – Powerline - John Brennan’s disgraceful performance
- Fifth place with 2/3 point (Tie*) – Big Hollywood - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Military Blogger Michael Yon Detained, Handcuffed by TSA in Seattle Airport
- Fifth place with 2/3 point (Tie*) – Bernard Goldberg - And What Exactly Is Wrong With Profiling
- Fifth place with 2/3 point (Tie*) – The Mudville Gazette - # Taliban Kill 8 CIA Agents in Afghanistan
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In the non-Council submissions, I really enjoyed the simple “Google Blocking Negative Search Recommendations on Islam – Why?”
Try it yourself! It is rather amazing! Go to http://www.google.com. And type in the following:
Christianity is
Judaism is
Buddhism is
Hinduism is
Islam is
After seeing the “suggested completions” revealed for the first four, you too will be amazed at what you see for “Islam is”.
If anyone has an explanation, I’d love to hear it.
sure enough Islam is produces nothing, unlike christianity, etc.
I tried Yahoo and the first four suggestions were positive, but they did include the islam is evil, etc.
Apparently muslims have nothing better to do than type in search suggestions millions of times a day.
No, Google says it’s a bug in their search engine and they’re working to “fix it as quickly as we can”.
http://searchengineland.com/islam-is-blocked-by-google-suggest-bug-32921
Right!!!!!!
Book, I missed your lament for San Francisco when it first popped up, and have just finished it. First, it would have made/would make a great article for “City Journal.” Second, whoever pointed out that this is your book is right, whether it’s fiction or non-. And if you want to write a novel, you need to put the notion of being too much of a dilletante out of your head because writing requires a single-mindedness I’m not sure I can achieve.
For now, if you want to write fiction, first start with short stories, just to get your mind working in an idea-generating direction. You might try reading Augusten Burroughs, who I think has made his name writing stories about SF.
Bless my soul, I saved Heinlein’s speech on writing and I will send it to you.
Then, forget about every book that we all put in the “meaningful books” post and go read every bit of Tom Wolfe you can find, all the essays, and finish up with “Bonfire of the Vanities”.
They all say write what you know and you know SF. I think your book would have to be a tragedy, or not, now that I’m having a little idea about Seattle…. Hmmmmm.
If you have an email address on your site, it’s carefully hidden. No matter, I found what I was looking for anyway and now you get two for the price of one:
http://jerrypournelle.com/slowchange/myjob.html
This is by Jerry Pournelle, who writes a lot with Larry Niven, and I recommend both of them, and is an essay on how to get his job. At the end, you will find a link to the Heinlein speech I mentioned.