For those of you who might have been interested in this appearance:
Due to convention sponsorship difficulties, DD and PM’s appearance at the Fargo Fantasy Festival in Fargo, North Dakota has been rescheduled for September 21-23, 2007.
William Shatner is the featured media guest: other guests will be announced. Please see the convention website for further details […]

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Or the second planette. (Or dwarf planet, or planetoid, or whatever-the-F we’re calling the Small Guys Out Past Neptune this week.)
Anyway: the planet formerly known as Xena is now Eris. …Which makes so much sense, given recent events. And her moon is Dysnomia. (Which I would otherwise have pegged as the word for […]

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Or so they say.
Technorati Tags: transformers, transformers movie, transformers film

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A word of explanation before we go on. This is not an apple pie as such (the techniques are a lot different though the flavorings are similar). This is a home version of apfelwähe, which is a subset of the larger set of wähen or tarts in general. (I’m using the Swiss name, which is […]

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It’s about to start happening — that most gloriously seasonal of desserts. The tree in the paddock is so loaded down with Bramleys, the branches are bending halfway to the ground. Gotta do something about that while other work is going on.
The tart dough comes first. The basic recipe is Swiss: they do the best […]

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I lived there for a total of seven years or so, and miss the place often. Just don’t ask me to be rational about the reasons. Here’s one:

Palm Springs Police have yet to catch up with a cross dressing man who robbed a Union Bank branch on Sunrise. It happened just before noon yesterday inside the […]

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I’m going to be posting this over at MetaFilter as well, but I thought I’d put this up here first.

The hat in this picture is an oddity. It belongs to Peter’s cousin Larry, who collects militaria and has some seriously interesting and unusual pieces; but neither he nor P. can work out what country […]

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Our major satellite TV provider, Sky, will shortly be showing all six Star Wars films at once on Sky Movies. As part of the promotional campaign for this, they’ve constructed some amusing little thirty-second spots, a couple of which are styled like their own ads and use Sky voice talent and onscreen presenters. (The “VI” […]

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Yes, it’s almost that time of year again, and even the Powers that Be are getting out the pasta drainers for the yearly celebration of Their valued colleague’s contributions to the noodlier side of human experience. (And at dinner on the 19th, they all get to Talk Like A Pirate as well! It doesn’t get […]

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(chuckle)

Trekking well beyond the Dark Side of the Moon, a Calgary indie rock band has forged a musical force-field in defence of embattled Pluto. In a five-man band mission, the group Sub Plot A is sending a musical signal they hope will be heard ’round the solar system and among the International Astronomical Union (IAU) […]

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Originally uploaded by designsponge.
…Though I imagine you’d have to say the blessing real fast on the eighth night…Technorati Tags: minimalism, minimalist, Hanukkah, Chanukah

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(Greetings to all our visitors from BoingBoing, StumbleUpon and Digg!)
You may have seen the cool posting in BoingBoing some weeks ago about the hummingbird hawkmoth. If you did, this short video YouTube version of a short video from our garden might amuse you. Before we went away to CopperCon, Peter caught a few seconds of […]

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