Influential Short Stories, for five hundred

All righty, then! A challenge! Which shorter works still influence you/are you trying to answer/come to peace with after having read them?

This is my list, unranked:

"All Summer in a Day," Ray Bradbury

"Those Who Walk Away from Omelas," Ursula Le Guin

"The Lady or the Tiger," Frank Stockton

"Day Million," Frederik Pohl

"The Game of Rat and Dragon," Cordwainer Smith

"To Think that I Saw it on Mulberry Street," Dr. Seuss

"Automatic Tiger," Kit Reed

"Casey Agonistes," Richard McKenna


...what's yours?

PSA: How to REALLY turn off Google BUZZ

The previous PSA on this subject was in error. By following Google's instructions, one merely hides the BUZZ tag; one does not actually turn it off -- because, yanno, why would you want to do that?

The real instructions for driving a stake through BUZZ's heart are here: http://www.scotxblog.com/legal-tech/gmails-turn-off-buzz-still-does-not-turn-off-buzz-heres-how-to-really-do-it/


So! Who has a web-based email service that they like?