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theodp writes "Slate's Allison Benedikt is ruffling some feathers with her recent manifesto, If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person. 'Not bad like murderer bad,' Benedikt writes, 'but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation's-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what's-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad.' If your local school stinks and you send your child there, Benedikt explains, 'I bet you are going to do everything within your power to make it better.'"

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August 20th was the birthday of the beloved “weird fiction” author H.P. Lovecraft. Like many writers, I confess that I failed to honor the occasion. But Peter Damien did notice that Lovecraft would have turned 123 this year. He wonders why anyone cares:

Because the fact is…he was a godawful writer. He was so bad. I really cannot stress this enough. I’m aware that the quality of a writer’s fiction is very much a matter of personal taste and not objective (and those people who mistakenly believe it is objective and matches up to their own tastes are always wrong). Still, I think we can safely agree that he was really awful as a writer, given that even people who are fans of Lovecraft don’t seem to defend his writing very much.

Damien’s aesthetic judgment is irreproachable. There’s not much to be said in defense of passages like this one from “The Call of Cthulhu“:

Cthulhu still lives, too, I suppose, again in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. His accursed city is sunken once more, for the Vigilant sailed over the spot after the April storm; but his ministers on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in lonely places. He must have been trapped by the sinking whilst within his black abyss, or else the world would by now be screaming with fright and frenzy. Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come – but I must not and cannot think! Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.

Yet Damien’s definition of good writing is too narrow. He argues that Lovecraft’s “ideas were themselves amazing things. It’s just that Lovecraft lacked the capability to do anything useful with them himself.” If that were simply true, however, no one would read Lovecraft–or remember anything that he wrote. Lovecraft was a terrible crafter of sentences and had a rather distinctly brute-force approach to exposition. Despite these shortcomings, the fictional universe he created is unforgettable, right down to the ludicrous pseudo-languages he invented for his various creations.

Lovecraft’s profound influence as a creator of worlds suggests that he was a better writer, in the crucial sense of articulating and communicating his ideas, than his more technically accomplished competitors. To criticize his stilted dialogue or Gothic affectations is to miss the point. Clumsy as he is, Lovecraft is remarkably good not only at transporting his readers to places that don’t exist, but at bringing them back with mementos from the journey. What more can we ask of a writer in the overlapping group of genres that includes SF, horror, and fantasy?

Lovecraft has a recent counterpart in George R.R. Martin, the author of the Game of Thrones series. Like Lovecraft, although in a rather different style, Martin writes terrible sentences. But he has other virtues, particularly the ability to balance and pace dozens of parallel storylines and viewpoints.

I’m not suggesting that Lovecraft or Martin belong to the first rank of English literature. Still, I’d rather read their stuff than exercises in technical perfection inspired by, say, Raymond Carver. Is it “good” writing? Who cares. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Lovecraft R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!

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Thomson Reuters suspends journals from its rankings for ‘citation stacking’.

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Growing up, my most fond memories was visiting abandoned places with my brother.  To this day, if opportunity presents itself, I bring my camera and take a few pictures.  These are not my work ofcourse, but I hope you enjoy the visual beauty and maybe it brings fond memories of your own adventures.

Part II:

1. Abandoned Construction of Nuclear Power Plant. Photo By brokenview
2. Chatillon Car Graveyard in Belgium
3. Jiancing Historic Trail in Taipingshan National Forest in Taiwan. Photo By T.-C
4. Abandoned theme park in nara dreamland, japan. Photo by michaeljohngrist
5. Clock tower
6. Old shack in a snow field, Idaho. Photo By James Neeley
7. Abandoned terminal at Nicosia Airport. Photo By eyesfutur
8. Milan, New Orleans. Photo By JustUptown
9. Abandoned church in autumn. Photo by *CainPascoe
10. Abanonded steam engine in Uyuni train cemetery, Bolivia. Photo By jimmyharris

Jah-Wren Ryel writes "The latest twist in the NSA coverage sounds like something out of a dime-store romance novel — NSA agents eavesdropping on their current and former girlfriends. Official categories of spying have included SIGINT (signals intelligence) and HUMINT (human intelligence) and now the NSA has added a new category to the lexicon — LOVEINT — which is surely destined to be a popular hashtag now."

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A “utopia” is a fictional place where everything is perfect; it’s supposed to give us a goal to aspire to, a place that we hope we — or maybe even the entire human race — can one day reach. But not all perfect societies are created equal. In fact, here are nine utopias that actually sound pretty goddamned terrible.

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Healthcare prices are high and about as predictable as a lottery, which is a problem for the 50% of Americans who report being unable to meet an unexpected expense of $2,000.

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Got a bald baby? Perfect unisex Captain Picard cosplay. (Geeks are Sexy)

Nhooooooooommm!!! Olha que fofinho!!! Oooowwwnnnn!!! Cuti-cuti!!

O felino mais famoso, mais querido, mais popular de Asgard!! Um gatinho Thor!!! Ou seria um CaThor??? (kkkkkk desculpa, não resisti, tava entalada essa aqui!) OOOOOWWWNNNNN!!

Defendendo o mundo dos cães raivosos, dos vilões que maltratam os animais, de toda a escória da humanidade que odeia os gatinhos.

É… não sei se esse martelinho fulero aí faria uma estrago tão grande contra os vilões, mas que ficou bonitinho, aaaaaaaahhh isso ficou!! Hhahahahahaha

One of the many reasons we're excited for the return of Omni magazine is access to their vaults. Just recently, the new owners of the magazine republished this iconic Dune art from a collection of rare work by John Schoenherr. Not only are these illustrations stunning, but Frank Herbert praised their accuracy.

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RAM mostra 1500 em chamativa versão conceitual Rumble Bee é um post do blog Notícias Automotivas - Carros

Depois dos teasers, a RAM apresentou a picape 1500 na versão conceitual Rumble Bee, que foi apresentado durante o Woodward Dream Cruise, nos Estados Unidos, e, como dá para notar – tanto no nome como em detalhes de acabamento –, traz inspiração em abelhas. O novo modelo é derivado da versão R/T e ainda não se sabe se será produzido.

A nova RAM 1500 Rumble Bee traz pintura da carroceria na cor Amarelo Drone, faixas pretas, faróis escurecidos, rodas de liga-leve de 24 polegadas, espelhos retrovisores em preto piano, escapamento da Mopar com dupla saída e ajuste de níveis de ruído, suspensão rebaixada em 5 cm pela King Suspension e saídas de ar no capo, grade, faróis, rodas e tampa do bocal de combustível pintados na cor preta. Por dentro há combinação de preto e amarelo no acabamento e uma abelha no botão seletor do câmbio.

O modelo vem equipado com o motor V8 Hemi de 5.7 litros a gasolina, capaz de entregar 398 cv de potência e 56 kgfm de torque, associado a uma transmissão automática de oito velocidades e tração traseira.

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