The Good Stuff http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com We've searched, read, linked and described The Good Stuff so you don't have to. We're interested in science, beauty, art, literature, language, gender, history, food, wine, music, the Web, the Mac, and travel. posterous.com Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:28:00 -0800 Kickass Classical Music http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/kickass-classical-music http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/kickass-classical-music

It's a list and index site for Classical music, designed to make it easy to start learning about Classical music via listening to sampless (and buying from Amazon). Also useful for tracking down a piece you've heard.

Kickass Classical Music

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Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:23:00 -0800 Jonathan Coulton: "Eat Your Brains" via WoW http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/jonathan-coulton-eat-your-brains-via-wow http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/jonathan-coulton-eat-your-brains-via-wow

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Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:11:00 -0800 Greek Mythology Link http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/greek-mythology-link-93306 http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/greek-mythology-link-93306

This Web site is associated with the Greek Mythology Link, a collection of myths retold by Carlos Parada, author of Genealogical Guide to Greek Mythology, published in 1993 by Paul Åströms förlag/Astrom Editions (available at Amazon).
The mythical accounts are based exclusively on ancient sources.

Family trees derived from Greek myths, and re-told myths from here: 

Greek Mythology Link

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Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:07:00 -0800 Making Light on Cover Letters http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/making-light-on-cover-letters http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/making-light-on-cover-letters

Your basic cover letter is such a simple thing: Get in, get out, and shut up. Here’s a no-frills model:

Dear Editor:

Enclosed are the first three chapters plus an outline of my 85,000-word science fiction novel, Voodoo Robot. It is [insert here a one- or two-sentence summary of the basic setup and story arc]. This is my first novel. [OR: I have the following publication credits.] [Optionally, and only if EXTREMELY pertinent:In addition, I have the following related credentials or experience. For example: This is my first SF novel, but on the other hand I am Geoff Landis.] I also enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. [OR: You need not return the manuscript.]

Thank you for considering my submission. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, 
[your name here]

 

From here.

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:13:00 -0800 RFC for the 7XX Range of HTTP Status codes - Developer Errors http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/rfc-for-the-7xx-range-of-http-status-codes-de http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/rfc-for-the-7xx-range-of-http-status-codes-de

At Railscamp X it became clear there is a gap in the current HTTP specification.

There are many ways for a developer to screw up their implementation, but no code to share the nature of the error with the end user.

We humbly suggest the following status codes are included in the HTTP spec in the 7XX range.

  • 701 - Meh
  • 702 - Emacs
  • 711 - Closed
  • 719 - I am not a teapot
  • 72X - Edge Cases
    • 720 - Unpossible
    • 721 - Known Unknowns
    • 722 - Unknown Unknowns
    • 723 - Tricky
    • 724 - This line should be unreachable
    • 725 - It works on my machine
    • 730 - It's a feature, not a bug
  • 73X - Fucking
    • 731 - Fucking Rubygems
    • 732 - Fucking Unicode
    •  . . .

More from here, via Evilrooster.

 

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:11:00 -0800 The Fantasy World Map http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/the-fantasy-world-map http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/the-fantasy-world-map

From Dan Meth:

Map

 

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:43:00 -0800 Star Wars Uncut http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/star-wars-uncut http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/star-wars-uncut

Fan re-make in 15-second increments.

Here.

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:41:00 -0800 Cat Mom Hugs Kitten http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/cat-mom-hugs-kitten-56360 http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/cat-mom-hugs-kitten-56360

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:37:00 -0800 Dogs and Smurfs: Representations of Female in Kid's Books http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/dogs-and-smurfs-representations-of-femlae-in http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/dogs-and-smurfs-representations-of-femlae-in

Male is default. That’s what you learn from a world of boy dogs and Smurf stories. My daughter has no problem with this. She reads these books the way they were intended: not about boys, exactly, but about people who happen to be boys. After years of such books, my daughter can happily identify with these characters.

And this is great. It’s the reason she will grow into a woman who can happily read a novel about men, or watch a movie in which men do all the most interesting things, without feeling like she can’t relate. She will process these stories as being primarily not about males but about human beings.

Except it’s not happening the other way. The five-year-old boy who lives up the street from me does not have a shelf groaning with stories about girl animals. Because you have to seek those books out, and as the parent of a boy, why would you? There are so many great books about boys to which he can relate directly. Smurf stories must make perfect sense to him: all the characters with this one weird personality trait to distinguish them, like being super brave or smart or frightened or a girl.

Find the rest of Max Berry's excelllent and thoughtful post here.

 

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:27:00 -0800 Until 2009, the human clitoris was an absolute mystery http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/until-2009-the-human-clitoris-was-an-absolute http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/until-2009-the-human-clitoris-was-an-absolute

Or so claims this interesting post about the use of sonography in 2009 by researchers Odile Buisson and Pierre Foldés to create the first complete three-dimensional image. 

And then there's the discoverer [cough] of the clit, too.

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Sat, 21 Jan 2012 17:20:00 -0800 Nonsense Word Generator http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/nonsense-word-generator http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/nonsense-word-generator

Words that are perfect for memos for that loathsome less-than-erudite superviser:

turbury planspen hanner bustiplends jorges
peaced czecome protterted waitansfer oughte
lusion corrion strify menste twelers
marson plifer dygulate ampher misemiting
intion quieve ringlenorto pudecesta intersuatter
justated embrics pacize contindo applated
veation flatnic tricatisheed ethoarcs invatieters
exemplies cognizes millhomemolow learse dernis
freeselling audire theters exanated congly
inersor netrack joured judgeraliard disbursepation

You can generate your own nonsense words here.

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Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:13:00 -0800 Automatic Wine Review Generator http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/automatic-wine-review-generator http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/automatic-wine-review-generator

A overtly-sexual turpentine aftertaste and filthy ammonia undertones are entangled in the 1837 Merlot from Cedar Hill Winery.

 

http://phrasegenerator.com/wine

 

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Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:21:00 -0800 Crows roof tubing http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/crows-roof-tubing http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/crows-roof-tubing

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Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:05:00 -0800 Kitten vs Two Scary Things http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/kitten-vs-two-scary-things http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/kitten-vs-two-scary-things

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Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:33:00 -0800 Magna Carta Essay in the Wild http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/magna-carta-essay-in-the-wild http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/magna-carta-essay-in-the-wild

Amongst other silliness, it claims that King John's titles included Duke of Hazzard, and observes that "peasants were reduced to eating burage and socage." It also invents a fictitious war against Flanders Fland (a region on the coast of Luxembourg) and cites such scholarly tomes as Bollock and Maidenhead's classic Interminable History of the English Law.

Note that it includes the phrase "Discipulus tuus hunc tractatum non scripsit."

More here

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Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:45:00 -0800 Riley on Marketing http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/riley-on-marketing http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/riley-on-marketing

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Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:28:00 -0800 Navy First Kiss on Docking http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/navy-first-kiss-on-docking http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/navy-first-kiss-on-docking

http://jezebel.com/5870250/the-best-holidaymilitary-photo-you-will-see-all-day

 

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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:14:00 -0800 DIY Star Wars Snowflakes http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/diy-star-wars-snowflakes http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/diy-star-wars-snowflakes

 Chaunce Dolan on Friday, December 17th, 2010:

With the holidays right around the corner we thought it would be fun to make some snowflakes. In our hunt we came across some Star Wars snowflakes created by a husband and wife.

After making a few of these we began thinking about improving the design. The first idea we had was to impose the cutting stencil on the circle diagram to make it quicker to cut out. After that, we created a few designs of our own.

Swars_snowflakes

There are templates here. They even have R2-D2.

 

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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:12:00 -0800 DO YOU THINK SEXISM IS A SET OF BEHAVIORS, OR IS IT INHERENT IN THE ATTITUDE OF SPECIFIC PERSONS? (I.E: HOLDING A DOOR FOR A WOMAN BECAUSE SHE WAS RIGHT BEHIND YOU AS OPPOSED TO BECAUSE YOU THINK WOMEN ARE WEAK AND IN NEED OF SPECIAL TREATMENT. http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/87565836 http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/87565836

The majority of sexist behavior is not rooted in some essential wickedness, although that would make sexism much easier to address. There are very few people who are sexist by explicit and informed intent; the majority of oppressive behavior comes from sexism, racism, and oppression simply being normalized.

Which is why people flip their fucking shit when you ask them to examine their own privilege, because what you’re doing is shaking the very foundations of their reality. The nature of privilege is that you don’t notice it until someone takes it away from you.

Men (the vast majority of white men in the united states, that is) have the privilege of walking down the street without being hunted for sport.  So it’s impossible for them to understand why you can’t manage the same.

The horrible truth is that oppression is what’s normal. Getting the privileged to recognize and address this is extremely difficult because it doesn’t fit into the Just World Hypothesis which we’ve all been taught throughout grade school and which many, many people never have to think about or adjust. In a Just World, you would have to do something bad in order to have something bad happen to you. It’s logical, it’s just very shallow logic.

That’s why addressing sexism, racism and homophobia (and transphobia and so on) is so incredibly hard, particularly when you’re talking to the ubiquitous White Heterosexual Cisgendered Man.

From here by 3Liza

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Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:19:00 -0800 You Can't Tell Me Octopusses Aren't Sentient http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/81554131 http://stuffyoushouldread.posterous.com/81554131

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