It was a charming convention. I look forward to coming back some time (with Peter, this time).
Stockholm is a city I look forward to visiting again when I have more time. The light here is very special. (The dark, not so special. Or maybe it is, but I’m a little set against it at the […]

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Spent a super day amongst the Swedes. No more to say about that at the moment, except that I’m about to go back to the hotel and fall over. (NB: Sweden looks a lot like Ireland when it’s raining. But you knew that.)
 
Tags: StoCon, Stockholm, convention, Sweden, Swedes

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Gaah.
Tags: computer, detention, laptop, examination, gaah, paranoia, government

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…This is a canned blog entry. At the time it’s posted, I’ll be on my way to Dublin to catch my flight to Sweden. But I saw this and thought that by the morning, maybe there’ll be some take on whether the subject is a hoax, or a genuine monster in the technical sense of the […]

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Before introducing footage from the new Wolverine movie, Hugh Jackman jumps down off the stage to shake Len Wein’s hand.
What a super moment! And so very deserved.

Once he was back on stage, Jackman gave a really heart-felt speech to Wein saying, “I waited a long time to thank you personally and I wanted to shake […]

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Just stumbled across a reference to this at Lou Romano’s weblog —
TotoroForestProject.com

Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest. This endangered sanctuary on the outskirts of Tokyo is where director Hayao Miyazaki got the inspiration for his much-loved character “Totoro”.
Over 200 top international artists from […]

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So I’m sitting here wrapping up book packages and getting caught up on the email, and were_gopher sends me this link. (Thanks Om!) And now my birthday is complete before it’s barely started.
 
The full story is here. Go, read, be happy. (The piccie also appears in the large version here, at […]

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…for the book that didn’t get published, starts on page 16 of this fascinating document.
Just look at all those zeroes. (Not that the poor ghostwriter gets to have many of them…)
Technorati Tags: O.J., Simpson, book, novel, contract

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But then the statement was made “late Friday”, when everybody was probably at a Christmas party somewhere. (Or NewsCorp hoped they were.) (Sorry, the only link I have at the moment is to a registrant-only story at Variety.)
News Corp.-owned HarperCollins announced the news late Friday on the East Coast with a terse press release headlined […]

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Guns? They’re giving them guns now??
Erik Estrada and other lesser celebrities have been sworn in as reserve officers of the city police department here, allowing them to carry badges and guns as part of a reality television series.
About 200 people packed into a Muncie City Hall auditorium for the Tuesday ceremony to swear in the […]

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Hey, look: it’s the congressional version of a Hugo Losers’ Party.
A closed-door panel of defeated and retiring members [of the U.S. Congress], including Katherine Harris, R-Fla.; Clay Shaw, R-Fla.; Mike Bilirakis, R-Fla.; Anne Northup, R-Ky.; J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz.; and Ed Case, D-Hawaii, turned up in the Longworth Building on Tuesday for a career advice panel […]

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Somewhere definitive, perhaps, to send your cellphone video of crashing zeppelins…
Beginning tomorrow, media companies Yahoo! and Reuters will allow members of the public to upload or e-mail photos and videos to illustrate breaking news stories. The “You Witness” service, which aims to turn the world’s hundreds of millions of camera phones into a news resource, […]

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