Unused and Probably Unusable

(Heinlein) Friday is just three hours away, so keep your eyes (or RSS feeds) peeled. In other news, I've had it with Jots. It was a noble experiment. I'm fed up.

My new non-blawg links collection is available here: My del.icio.us. I have 80 links posted so far, none duplicative, and they're neatly categorized (and cross-categorized). They are not, alas, saved cached versions, so the expiring pages (like my most recent addition, Jeremy's brilliant WSJ op-ed piece) will someday no longer be found at the addresses posted.

As most of you know already, delicious (I'm tired of putting in the dots, please assume them) is a wildly popular site that takes advantage of collaborative tagging. See the Main page (clever use of the .us suffix, no?) for more.

I have other useful pages elsewhere, besides this blog, and the previous iteration of this blog: There's also my Wikipedia profile (minimal, to say the least; Wikipedia isn't about the User, it's about the Project), and as I've noted previously I also am a big fan of Bloglines, so I have a Bloglines subscription (free) which aggregates my favorite feeds. Check it out by clicking here.

The upcoming Heinlein post will finally get to one of my favorite topics: Science Fiction Crimes! After all, if a story doesn't have a science-fictional element crucial to the story, it shouldn't be set far in the future, or under the blazing twin suns of Fomulhaut VII, or anywhere other than in a standard contemporary setting. So if a story is appropriately set in a what-if ficton, and there's a crime, it's much more interesting if it's not a normal crime happening to normal people who happen to live in a futuristic or high-tech setting.

The best part of the intersection between Law and Heinlein: coming up next, in the sixth Heinlein Friday.