I’ve just signed up the blog for the “Amazon Affiliates” program, which allows me to make a small royalty fee for advertising Amazon products. Don’t worry, I’m not going to turn the blog into a mess of ads to books written for teen girls about sparkly vampires.
So from time to time I will offer some book suggestions and links to Amazon. If you click through and end up buying the book, I’ll get a small royalty. So here’s a way to send money to me while avoiding the shame of actually sending money to me.
As a test, here’s a link to a graphic novel I do recommend… L. Neil Smith’s “The Probability Broach,” which I have mentioned from time to time. Let’s see if this works…
The agreement states that I most post this bit clearly on my site, so here it is: “Up-Ship.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.”
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Good luck with the program.
“Let’s see if this works…”
I don’t see a link.
You have to be careful with some of this,not Amazon but some of these
sham operations that give you a bill of goods and in the tail end you get screwed,so be careful.
> I don’t see a link.
In the body of the post, you *should* see something that looks like this:
If you don’t… my guess would be some sort of browser issue. The image/link bit is a bit of HTML code that reaches back to Amazon for the source data.
You have a link for this and this?
Jim
Hmmm. Lessee if I can stick the links into the comments… just a sec…
From here it looks like that works.
I guess we’ll see what happens now. 🙂
Jim
I believe with Amazon’s affiliate program there is also a way to make a general link to Amazon and you will get credit for anything that person goes on to buy during that session. If you put such a button on the blog, say, next to the donate button, I would make a point of using it whenever I was going to buy something from Amazon anyway.
> a general link to Amazon …
Looking into that. I’ve found a page for banners that link to Amazon.com, but they’re kinda hugenormous.
Meh.
Read the original book way back in the 1980s. Highly amusing and as the title notes, improbable. Typical utopian stuff.
OK, I’ve mashed that Amazon search bar into the top page, http://www.up-ship.com/blog/ on the far left, below a few of the other links. Couldn’t get it into the blog main page, though. I’ll poke around a bit more.
Actually, highly *a*typical utopian stuff. Instead of the usual utopianism that requires mankind to have given away all semblance of individualism in service to the enlightened state, “PB” envisions a utopia built on the idea of complete individualism. Granted, I see “PB” as being almost as hideously unlikely to work as socialist utopianism, but it would be a better goal.
Rand Simberg has a relatively small and tasteful general link to Amazon in the left sidebar of his blog at http://www.transterrestrial.com/ if you want an example.
I think the blog ate my last comment as spam because it contained a link, but for an example of a smaller, tasteful general Amazon link, check out the left sidebar of Rand Simberg’s blog Transterrestrial Musings. Google the name since it appears I can’t or shouldn’t link it.
> I think the blog ate my last comment as spam because it contained a link
I checked the spam bucket, and there it was. However, having *one* link should not mark it as spam (two puts a comment into moderation). I guess there was just something about the formatting that the spamcatcher didn’t like.
>Actually, highly *a*typical utopian stuff. Instead of the usual utopianism that requires mankind to have given away all semblance of individualism in service to the enlightened state, “PB” envisions a utopia built on the idea of complete individualism. Granted, I see “PB” as being almost as hideously unlikely to work as socialist utopianism, but it would be a better goal.
Never, ever going to happen. We are co-operative, social animals. PB failed dismally to explain how they arrived at that point. None of the messy, “what we do with the poor” stuff that real world people have to deal with nor all the problems which result when everybody turns their back on each other. The only way to deal with things such as poverty, mass education, health care, roads, etc. is collectively.
> We are co-operative, social animals.
Some more so thatn others. Sadly, those who are “more so” seem to have a *need* that everyone else be so as well.
> The only way to deal with things such as poverty, mass education, health care, roads, etc. is collectively.
ERRRR. Poverty and health care are clearly best dealt with by *individuals.*
The purpose of a *good* government is to do those things that must be done… but that the people *cannot* do themselves. National defense, highways, dealign with major natural disasters such as earthquakes and epidemics. Goverment becomes *not* *good* when it starts doing for people those things that people should be doing for themselves.
Hey, if you are are going to link to good stuff on Amazon, don’t miss these two:
http://www.amazon.com/Walt-Disney-Treasures-Tomorrow-Beyond/dp/B0000BWVAI
One of the key things that shaped the entire future history of the American space program, at a knock-down price.
http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machines-Illustrated-Spaceship-Literature/dp/0894640399
…having damn near the weight and size of a concrete construction block, still the best single resource for looking up any oddball spacecraft designs from long before the time that people were flying to the moon via harnessing migrating lunar geese. Chronological layout means you can just jump in at any point on a rainy day and have great time reading it, and (rarely nowadays) binding is like something that could withstand a nuclear attack…more like a college textbook meant to be resold many times to incoming classes than the fragile ones of today.
My numero uno most treasured book out of over 400 or so I own.
EDIT:
Huh. I thought sure DM was long out of print. Huzzah! My own copy is beat up and dog-earred from use.
And let’s not forget:
I had intended to do a full review of “SH” at some point, but what the heck, here’s the link. A hint: I wouldn’t post the link unless I thought the book was worth owning.
> Some more so thatn others.
It would appear so. Even when cutting your own nose to spite your face is the result.
> Sadly, those who are “more so” seem to have a *need* that everyone else be so as well.
Nope. I’ve always preached voluntary collective action. You want to opt out, do so. Just stop trying to free load off the rest of us who can see the value in collective action. Stop trying to claim your way is better, despite its obvious failure to provide for anybody other than yourself.
> ERRRR. Poverty and health care are clearly best dealt with by *individuals.*
Yeah, sure, sure. Look, keep your delusions to yourself. When an entire community is in poverty, expecting individuals to solve the problems facing them is a waste of time.
> The purpose of a *good* government is to do those things that must be done… but that the people *cannot* do themselves.
Couldn’t agree more.
> National defense, highways, dealign with major natural disasters such as earthquakes and epidemics. Goverment becomes *not* *good* when it starts doing for people those things that people should be doing for themselves.
Here we differ. Hey, you’ve finally admitted that government has a role to play, a *_COLLECTIVE_* role to play in society. Hehehehe, keep working on it. You’ll realise the value of what I’ve been saying. 🙂 🙂
Admin said:
“National defense, highways,”
The “National Defense Highway System”. Eisenhower’s greatest lasting gift to our nation.
A gigantic public works project that really did put America on wheels and made it possible for tens of millions of families to hit the road during the 1960’s and head across the whole nation during their summer vacations.
God bless him for that; it was as important as Teddy Roosevelt establishing the National Park System so they would have somewhere worthwhile to drive to.
Like “The Gobbler” for instance: http://lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html
We, like W.C. Fields once said: “Must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.”
No Eisenhower…no Defense Highway System.. no Defense Highway System…no Gobbler.
Like old Atlantis, it is now gone, but in our imaginations we can dream of what it must have been like during its days of majesty!;
Behold “The Passion Pit” in all its pagan glory!:
http://lileks.com/institute/motel/rooms/5.html
>> Sadly, those who are “more so” seem to have a *need* that everyone else be so as well.
> Nope. I’ve always preached voluntary collective action.
You’re a liar. You just recently bemoaned your lack of ability to force me to do free work at a job of *your* choice.