{"id":385,"date":"2014-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/monday-link-salad-4\/"},"modified":"2014-03-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T12:00:00","slug":"monday-link-salad-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecats.org\/margaret\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/monday-link-salad-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Link Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apparently triops cysts (eggs, effectively) can last up to 18 months in outer space and still hatch once returned to their proper environment<\/a> … other facts about triops in that link, too.<\/p>\n

This is a synopsis of a proposed article looking at the history of US science fiction writers<\/a> from a perspective of discussing the far right politics of several well known writers\/editors. The intent, I think, is to contextualise the various clashes between more progressive (and mostly younger) parts of SF\/F fandom and the (mostly older) rightwing parts that’ve been taking place over the last few years. Looks like it’s been funded (it’s a kickstarter-esque thing) so will be interesting to see the eventual article.<\/p>\n

I’ve signed up for a couple more Future Learn courses – one on Richard III<\/a> starting on 30th June, and one on the Roman port of Portus<\/a> starting on 19th May.<\/p>\n

We’ve just got a Chromecast, so I installed a new app on my phone – Dayframe<\/a> lets you cast photos, you can link it up with flickr, 500px, G+, facebook, and so on as well as display photos off your camera. Not entirely intuitive interface for adding streams to the favourites (or at least I got a little tied in knots at one point when adding flickr) but does the job well.<\/p>\n

TV I set recording last week:<\/p>\n