Check out this website, which specializes in nothing but the low cost airlines:

Momondo.com

If it can’t find a carrier for a route you’re interested in, it brings up a whole sheaf of other travel sites for you to search. Some of these I’d never even heard of (which is saying something).
There are also blogs associated with […]

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Oh dear, oh dear.  Not safe for those who don’t like the F word and its variants.  But visually hilarious.
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This has been in the pipeline for a while.YoungWizards.com is now running under the Drupal content-management system, which will make it capable of handling its own blogs, forums, and other goodies. YW.net will follow suit shortly.
Feel free to stop by and kick the tires!
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There are various book memes that seem to have been around forever…and So You Want to Be a Wizard is number 356 on one of them, a meme apparently native to LiveJournal. (Here’s an example, and here, and here, and here…)
I was glancing at the list today, and an idea came up. Eventually […]

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The transfer to The Big Meow’s new hosting provider at Lunarpages has gone smoothly, and the new installation of Drupal 5.0 is now up and running. Everything seems to be working OK, but if those of you who read this and venture over there should find anything strange going on, please register so that you can […]

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…to its new hosting servers at Lunarpages, starting today.
This means that the site will disappear for a while as the domain registrar passes the domain’s internal change-of-address information (DNS) into the Net. The site may take as long as seventy-two hours to reappear, so please don’t panic if the absence seems to be getting prolonged.
The […]

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A goddess in the making, or a demon reborn…?
In the remote mountain village where she was born, Mariarta dil Alicg lives the untroubled life of a peasant girl…until, soon after a mysterious stranger’s arrival, she starts to hear voices in the wind. The voices whisper strange secrets in Mariarta’s ears — promising her the power […]

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On the delightful John Scalzi’s last list of his 51 best personal writers’ blogs in SF and fantasy, OOA ranked 49th. Now it seems we rank 36th.
Well, coolness, but don’t ask me why. (And don’t ask me whether I’m SF or fantasy, either. I prefer to saddle the Great Divide and confuse everybody possible, […]

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This is going to be fun!
The excellent Chris Meadows (aka Robotech Master) has written an article on serializing novels on the Internet for the weblog at his TeleRead site, which deals with various aspects of electronic reading (e-books, reading on PDAs, online reading,digital libraries, etc.).
Chris is also hosting an online roundtable discussion this weekend on […]

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While I’m in the food mood:

Via The Knife: at Eater, “Adventures in Shilling #101“
Food Trivia Quiz at Slashfood
Fun with the Fabulous Plantain Smoosher (aka “Tostobueno”) at Off The Broiler
Lussekatter (Lucia Cats or Saffron Buns) at A Cat in the Kitchen
Some very dodgy Photoshopping of nice looking dumplings at Eatdrinknbemerry
Erin’s first truffle at Erin’s Kitchen
Basil and […]

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Goodle. It’s Google News…but all good.
Including:
World Peace sparks outpourings of joy
George Lucas to refilm all three Star Wars prequels
Spam drying up
Scientists pack up: “Everything explained”
Rivers, lakes of wine and beer
Golden age back
And more. (sigh) Just the headlines, unfortunately.
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I swear, it’s like watching high-stakes poker on TV. But high-stakes poker played by six-year-olds.
i m divorcin u kthxbye
Oh yeah? I want a lot of money or I’m taking the kids because you’re a bad mom.
No I’m not and no you’re not. Read the prenup again and buzz off.
Oh yeah? Well I have a sooper […]

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I just want to take a moment to link to this, in which the excellent Wil Wheaton gives us an in-depth analysis of the episode.
While reading it I had to stop several times to clean the tea off the keyboard, and (since Peter is still snoozing upstairs, having had a late writing night) restrain myself […]

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I’ve been thinking about the redesign of EuropeanCuisines.com for a while now: while there’s a lot of data there, the site’s started to seem very static in terms of what other food sites have to offer. So we’re starting to make some changes.

We’ve started a new version of the site based on the open-source content […]

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Wow, more than a thousand fifteen hundred of you have been in since Glenn put up that posting. Welcome!
For those of you curious about what’s going on around here at the moment: a precís –

First of all, the usual blogging. Tales of travel, cats, food, the home life of a writer married to another […]

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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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A present to him from Gracie Allen…
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Okay, now I’m rolling my eyes really hard. Not yet completely freaked…until this happens twice.
Via the excellent kerithwyn:
Unfortunately, I need to report an “oops” regarding the lulu.com printing of Raetian Tales 1: A Wind from the South. I ordered it and received the shipment very quickly…only to find that while the cover was correct, the […]

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They’re singing it in the streets of Paris…and nearly everywhere else in France, apparently.
A song parodying soccer star Zinedine Zidane’s head butt in the World Cup final has soared to the top of the music charts in France.
“Coup de Boule” (”Head-Butt”) pokes fun at Zidane for ramming his head into the chest of Italy defender […]

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I see that the Young Wizards series’s Kit has made the 175 Cool Boys From Children’s Literature list. Neat!
Also, a nice mention of the series in/on Blogcritics.org from Tiffany Leigh…
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