Sunday Morning at the Linkdump

• Ruben Dario: The Bard of Nicaragua. (When I was in Nicaragua six years ago, I was amazed to discover ordinary people, some of them barely literate, who could recite line after line of poems by Dario from memory. More than once, someone would say to me, "I can't explain this to you, so let me tell you what Dario said--")
  
  
• The shared jargon of science fiction.
  
  
• Global warming: A random walk?
  
  
• "Analysis of Women's Publication Rates in Asimov's, Analog, and F&SF for the Years 1987 to 2001"
  
  
• Everybody's an expert!
  
  
• Next from Studio Ghibli: Tales of Earthsea, directed by the son of Hayao Miyazaki. (If, um, anybody out there wants to buy me and a friend a plane ticket to Tokyo to see it when it opens in July, just let me know...)
  
  
• John Scalzi, local science fiction pusher, started a discussion of gateway SF. Hal Duncan offered a truly brilliant reply, even by Hal's high standards of brilliance.
  
  
• King Kong: Gwenda loved it, Ed hated it, Ron Silliman loved Naomi Watts. (Update: I just saw it tonight, and can say, sadly, that I'm with Ed on this one. Gwenda makes a good point in the comments to her post: this is probably a love-it/hate-it movie, with very little middle ground. If I hadn't been there with friends, I would have walked out. I can't at the moment even conceive of how anyone could not find it tedious and silly, but maybe with time I'll mellow.)
  
  
• Ron Silliman's been doing some great posts recently, including one on long poems and one on Ki-Duk Kim's beautiful film 3-Iron.
  
  
• "Wikipedia comes close to Britannica in terms of the accuracy of its science entries, a Nature investigation finds."
  
  
• The unfortunately-named Bloggasm has a lot of interviews with bloggers who also do real writing. In one interview, Nick Mamatas reveals a contract between us, but conveniently forgets to mention that he once worked for a certain lobbyist.