links for 2007-06-20

• Ghost Cities Of 2100 - Forbes.com
  (tags: city future population society toread urban)
• Sara Wajid on why Muslim women are taking up martial arts | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
  More and more Muslim women are taking up martial arts. Is it because they are under increased attack? Sara Wajid attends a Ninjabi class to find out
  (tags: islam culture defense)
• Video Games - China - Money - Online Games - New York Times
  Great gold farming overview
  (tags: china economics gaming goldfarmer)
• São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising
  "A city stripped of advertising. No Posters. No flyers. No ads on buses. No ads on trains. No Adshels, no 48-sheets, no nothing."
  (tags: advertising urban brazil)
• Clockwork Phoenix
  "Clockwork Phoenix is a home for stories that sidestep expectations in beautiful and unsettling ways, that surprise with their settings and startle with the ways they cross genre boundaries, that aren't afraid to experiment with storytelling techniques."
  (tags: SF writing sfmarket)