Friday's Interesting Links

Writing

The Terrible Truth about Secondary Characters:
http://paranormalromanceblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-terrible-truth-about-secondary-characters/

On finding an agent based on the book on offer:
http://community.livejournal.com/fangs_fur_fey/459934.html

And a sort of rebuttal to the above, but not really if you read carefully (both provide good advice):
http://community.livejournal.com/fangs_fur_fey/460100.html

Authors Behaving Badly
http://www.redroom.com/blog/kris-neri/authors-behaving-badly

Rachelle Gardner on what to expect from an agent:
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2009/04/10-things-to-expect-from-agent.html


Science

Just when you started planning that maggot farm:
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=maggots-theyll-make-your-skin-crawl-2009-03-20

Plasma Crystals
http://science.howstuffworks.com/weird-life.htm

The Bugs Bugging You?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3335131/Insect-spies-fitted-with-video-camera-implants.html


General

Cautionary tales about social networking:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29796962/

And for you Twitterites:
http://snipr.com/egize (Warning: Starts with loud noise.)
and
http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2009/4/2/surfing-facebook-and-twitter-work-good-productivity-says-boffins/

Just for fun (note the similarity :)):
http://www.byseanferrell.com/2009/04/pants_1_sean_0.html