collage by mefi staff
It was a dark and stormy night, the inky pools of shadow in the sparsely furnished room punctuated only by jittery flashes of lightning and the throbbing #065a8f rather than #006699 blue background and glowing scroll of resolute white text and flirtatious lime green links as styled by the Modern Dark theme (for it is on Metafilter.com that our scene lies) emanating from the sleepless reader's laptop screen.
Le Guin in 2009. Photo via Wikipedia, by Marian Wood Kolisch, Oregon State University
humbug posts the shortlist for the Inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
Armored Amour by JD Hancock (cc by)
Trophy by Matt Newfield (cc by-nd)
Doroteo Arango II, in the fun Menace 2 artificial intelligence thread, who lost the original school competition, but learned what every young science scholar needs to know: "Sex sells, bribery works, presentation trumps content, and everyone likes free stuff. If you want to sell science, make it shiny and sexy, and give free food."
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