links for 2007-05-03

• Diversity in the slush pile
  K. Tempest Bradford offers some suggestions for editors to improve the diversity among writers who submit to their slush pile.
  (tags: editing writing SF diversity)
• Chris Bell: author of Liquidambar and The Bumper Book of Lies
  A very interesting manifesto about posting fiction online by New Zealand writer Chris Bell
  (tags: writing online SF literature fiction)
• online_communities.png (PNG Image, 1024x968 pixels)
  A map of the online communities by xkcd
  (tags: comic culture web2.0 xkcd)
• 600-Year-Old Music Found Encoded in Chapel Walls
  Finding this is way more interesting than discovering the descendants of Jesus.
  (tags: music history davincicode rosslyn encryption)
• Paleo-Future: Gigantic Robots to Fight Our Battles (Fresno Bee, 1934)
  I had no idea giant robot battles was a trope that existed in 1934. I thought anime invented it.
  (tags: awesome robots steampunk war)
• Docs Change the Way They Think About Death - Newsweek Health - MSNBC.com
  "The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks--and death itself."
  (tags: biology death future health medicine)
• Mini DNA replicator could benefit world's poor - health - 01 May 2007 - New Scientist
  We live in the future. Pocket-sized DNA amplification. This is going to be important.
  (tags: invention dna biotech biology genetics)