When those images of the big Berlin gathering at which Obama spoke started turning up on the Net, I said to myself, “Hmm, this is going to provoke certain kinds of language here and there…”  And when the word “demagoguery” started turning up here and there in conjunction with his name, I thought, “Hmm. It’s only […]

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This is cool!
And apparently it’s still growing (to judge by the “Add An Event” button).
 
Tags: Internet, history, meme, online

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Tink.

Tags: kitten, video, adorable, too+cute+to+live, kitty, cat, YouTube, video, viral

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Specifically, for online pick-your-own-ingredients-and-we’ll-ship-it-to-you muesli.
From this week muesli lovers in the UK will be able to order their very own custom made cereal choosing their ingredients online.
The German firm ‘Well’ launched www.mymuesli.com last year and it has proved successful in its homeland. Customers are able to use the website to dream up their personalised breakfast […]

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As the rest of the books offered for sale a while back get their final fates and destinations worked out, here’s one that is now free again to be sold.   Gone now: thanks to the buyer!
 …I have a spare first edition hardcover copy of Spock’s World. These are hard to find now in […]

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For those of you who’re not subscribers: the latest chapter has just gone online for the general readership over at the TBM site. Here’s the URL —

http://www.the-big-meow.com/Chapter-Seven-Gateway

All the chapters presently online are linked to from this page.
We also have new versions of the Mobipocket-format files available. The marvelous Linnette Stoney (who’s been converting the […]

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Friends,
It’s up at last.
There are a lot of places where this notification needs to be posted, and a lot of explanations and profound apologies to be made… but for the moment it just seems best to get the news out.
Chapter Seven is now available online for subscribers: it’s linked to from the normal TBM subscriber […]

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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.
Technorati Tags: Star Wars, gangsta, rap

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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!
Technorati Tags: Young, wizards, Nita and Kit, Diane Duane, […]

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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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