More Interesting Links

Hmm, here it is Friday again and I haven't posted anything. Luckily, I've been collecting another group of interesting links and the list is getting pretty long.

General

A couple of the Twitter folks I follow linked to this. I usually go with pandora radio, but this is cool too.
http://www.last.fm/

Reading

From a friend of mine
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/

Random House's version of Baen's Free Library
http://www.suvudu.com/freelibrary/

Writing

Literary Agent Rachelle Gardner on word counts:
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/03/word-counts-my-aha-moment.html

Literary Agent Janet Reid on what to skip in fiction queries:
http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2009/03/things-to-skip-in-query-letter.html

And another from Janet Reid regarding being prepared:
http://jetreidliterary.blogspot.com/2009/03/case-for-justin.html

A breakdown of the important cues in #queryfail, a Twitter event where agents pointed out what made them reject queries
http://www.jacketflap.com/megablog/index.asp?Year=2009&Month=03&Day=05&postid=314226

Linked by Literary Agent Colleen Lindsay (read a lot of agent blogs? Who me???) about the economics of beginning agents:
http://dianafox.livejournal.com/4920.html

Amusing response to the #queryfail Twitter event:
http://agentquery.leveragesoftware.com/group_discussion.aspx?DiscussionID=321cc9b0141345aaa3c8e7c5152a4bfd

Literary Agent Kate Schafer Testerman live blogging her query pile:
http://ktliterary.com/2009/03/a-liveblog-before-i-leave.html

And a prime example of why it's important to do your research and know the proper way to do things:
http://editorialass.blogspot.com/2009/03/really-maam-i-tell-you-this-for-your.html

And for a change of pace, Guy Gavriel Kay's thoughts on blogging for authors:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090306.wbkread07/BNStory/globebooks/home

Science

The Noble's pygmy frog is the tiniest frog species known in the Andes
http://www.sciam.com/slideshow.cfm?id=smallest-frog-of-andes&thumbs=horizontal&photo_id=1A2BAD8B-F5E6-EF4A-A5333F955E91F82E

This belonged somewhere between Writing and Science but...Paleopathology: Injuries & Abnormalities (images):
http://www.uwyo.edu/reallearning/injuries/boneindex.html