Inkblot Earth Featured Readers
Time for a new kind of entries to spice up the social life and bring respect where its due. Starting with this one, I’m going to make it a regular event to write an entry featuring interesting articles by inkblot earth’s commenters, along with short reviews. To begin with, these reviews will be centric around the delivery of the content, rather than to serve as an extension or response to the article itself.
- Eternal erasing of the scary memory
- Quantum Radar - Lockheed jumps the gun
- Make Wall Sized Posters With Your Printer
- Where Do We Go From Here?
First up is an article by MC, the author of the Neurophilosophy blog. The title is a reference to the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind written by Charlie Kaufman (great movie, excellent camera work and Jim Carrey does wonders). The article discusses recent the scientific achievements of preventing rats from transferring fearful memories from long-term to short term memory, while still allowing other memories passage intact. The article is not long, but does a great job at highlighting the research, along with appropriate linking to references and extra information.
KuiperCliff does a fantastic questioning of a recent article in The Guardian regarding an announcement of a new quantum radar that can “see through everything”. Doing the right thing, Cliff goes the distance and contacts a physics savvy consultant to get a clearer idea of the story’s validity. The writing style is pleasant, and very well linked for easy info-retrieval. Finally, he ends it with splash of good humor.
Ok, this isn’t really and article as such — but John of the One Man’s blog found this fantastic website — something I had been trying to find for some time! It’s an online service that allows you to supersize images and print them out over many A4’s (i.e. puzzle together a really large picture from the pages). Great stuff. Check out John’s blog, it’s usually just short blurbs, but the content is always interesting and he updates freakishly often (how do you do it John?!).
Someone I know only as a Bowl of Stupid wrote a great entry on what it’s like to go through your archives and discovering how much your blog has changed. It’s personal, but it reflects a lot of frustration many of us online writers feel. It’s well written — and BOS, if you want my opinion — write more honest stuff like that entry 
That’s it for now. Hope you enjoy the reading.
4 Comments, Comment or Ping
KuiperCliff
Thanks for the write-up! I’m glad you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it. Your series is an interesting twist on the usual links round-ups, and I look forward to more posts.
Mar 15th, 2007
John Pozadzides
Hrafn,
First of all, thanks for the mention.
Secondly, this is a really cool idea. Since you went to all the trouble of creating an icon and all I put it on the article. But you should have it say “Inkblot Earth Featured Entry”! Otherwise people might just think it’s something I put up there and miss the fact that it’s a link back to you…
Finally, I guess “freakishly often” is probably right on. My goal is two new posts each day and I must say it has taken quite a bit of effort and determination to meet that. In fact, in about a week watch for my 500th post!
The only way I can do this is that I don’t have a real job. I “retired” about 2 years ago and now all I have to do is keep up with my personal blog (for fun) and HTMLHelp.com, which is kind of like my job now.
I’d say that I spend about 65% of my time doing these two things, and the rest is spent traveling, working on my metal art, and doing whatever my wife tells me to.
Take care,
John
Mar 15th, 2007
A Bowl Of Stupid
H,
Reflecting KuiperCliff’s and John’s comments, thanks much for the mention. I’m glad you enjoyed that post, especially since I don’t particularly like writing about my own personal existential issues all that often. Now that I know, I’ll try to write more honest material like that.
-Matt (A Bowl of Stupid)
Mar 15th, 2007
hthth
@KuiperCliff
Look forward to more posts from you as well.
You deserved it
@John
Wow, 2 posts a day is indeed a high goal, you pull it off quite nicely! Metal art? I’d like to see that!
Well, it wasn’t too much trouble to create the icon, I just thought why not — if someone wanted to mention that their posts were well received by others
@Matt
Hope it helps you figure out the direction you want to take your blog in.
You’re all welcome, my pleasure.
Mar 15th, 2007
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