http://www.metafilter.com/tags/mundane/rss tag posts with mundane Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:01:43 -0800 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:01:43 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64935/You-cant-trade-with-balls-of-frozen-methane <a href="http://mundane-sf.blogspot.com/2007/09/take-third-star-on-left-and-on-til.html">Geoff Ryman on</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundane_science_fiction">mundane science fiction.</a> [<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/60988/Breaking-Science-fiction-is-fiction">previously</a>, <a href="http://futurismic.com/2007/09/21/geoff-ryman-on-mundane-sf/">via</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.64935 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:01:43 -0800 sciencefiction mundane sf literature film geoffryman manifesto realism science brundlefly http://www.metafilter.com/26060/Into-the-Mundane-with-Gun-And-CameraIntroducing-the-Sociology-of-the-Uninteresting <em><a href="http://www.yale.edu/yale300/democracy/may1text/images/Hindenburg.jpg" title="''It's a joke - Get over it...'' Real links follow.">Oh, the mundanity!</a></em><br><br>In the lyrics of <a href="http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v2n1/williams2-1.htm" title="When I wake up early in the morning Lift my head; I’m still yawning Wake up in the middle of dream Stay in bed; float up stream Please don’t wake me, no, don’t shake me Leave me where I am—I’m only sleeping">the Beatles</a>; in our tastes for <a href="http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v3n1/barcan.htm" title="(SFW article)">amateur porn</a>; in <a href="http://www.mundanebehavior.org/outburst/morelli-02032002.htm" title="1. It is best to use different tools for both the jelly and the peanut butter to avoid cross mixing and tainting the substances in their normal state. ">how to prepare a peanut butter and jelly sandwich</a>; and, by extension, in <a href="http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v4n1/toc4-1.htm" title="Table of Contents - Scott Schaffer, ''Introduction: Trigger Happy Everyday Life'', David Boyns and Desiree Stephenson, ''Understanding Television without Television: A Study of Suspended Television Viewing'', Nicolas Gu&#0233;guen and Alexandre Pascual, ''Status and tolerance of ill-mannered persons: A field study'', Niyi Awofeso, ''Burial Rituals as Noble Lies - an Australian Perspective'', Judson L. Jeffries and Harlan Hahn, ''Crime, Community and Urban Life'', Myron Orleans, ''Mundane Lost, Mundane Regained: Considerations for a New Iraqi Paradigm'', Mundane Manifesto: Andrew Carlin, ''Observation and membership categorization: Recognizing 'normal appearances' in public space''"><i>The Journal of Mundane Behavior</i></a>. It's about nothing extraordinary<br> ...and everything ordinary. Think of it as Lilek's ...with Science.<br><br>--And here's one for MrBaliHai: <a href="http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v1n3/cummings.htm" title="Many are they who have faced their first squat toilet in the dead of night with an apprehension that may fade over the months, but never disappears entirely. Here too there is only a ladle, with no toilet paper in sight. A survey of American anthropologists under hypnosis would surely reveal that after months or years in Indonesia the majority still carried tissue paper or visited a hotel or restaurant with modern plumbing when needed.">Squat Toilets and Cultural Commensurability: Two Texts, Plus Three Photographs I Forgot to Take</a>. (Earthquake not included.) tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.26060 Thu, 29 May 2003 10:01:48 -0800 Mundane y2karl