(Non-technically inclined people, look away now. Or skip down to the bottom of this where it gets less technical.)
I have a lot more screenplay stuff to do today, but I had to take an hour or so off from that after having a quick look at the “Out of Ambit” log files on arising, and noticing […]

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One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about.
(with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog)
Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN

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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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And how not, when he writes stuff like this?
Moviegoers who knowingly buy a ticket for “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” are going to get exactly what they expect: There is a mummy, a tomb, a dragon and an emperor. And the movie about them is all that it could be. If you think […]

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Here’s another 2008 convention gig I thought I’d post about here, since it hasn’t been mentioned on the blog previously, and this seems like a good way to get the word out.
The nice people at Con*Stellation 27 have asked me to come be their Guest of Honor in Hunstville AL over the weekend of October 17–19. Peter […]

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Not long after the online version of the Irish Times newspaper appeared, some years back, it went subscription-only. At 70 Euro per year (or whatever they were charging), it was just too expensive: I stopped reading it.  I get a sense that other people may have had the same reaction, as last year (I think it was) they changed over to some […]

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There’s been no mention of this on the blog recently, so I thought I’d drop in a note about it now: I’ll be the Guest of Honor at StoCon ‘08 from the 1st through the 3rd of August. The convention venue is the Kulturhuset in Skarpnäck, a suburb of Stockholm (you can get there easily on the Metro: it’s […]

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This ad apparently premiered in Europe a couple of days before my birthday, and the minute I saw it, I fell in love with it.
The love falls roughly into three parts: (a) The basic conceit of the ad. (b) The nuts and bolts of the production (i.e., working out how much of the construction really […]

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Thanks for your concern, everybody. I’m a little better. Won’t be able to get the ultrasound till next week, though. (mutter) I will be sorting out those last book requests today and tomorrow, though, so if you haven’t heard from me, you will shortly.
Meanwhile, though, there’s this to laugh about.
LOLTrek (snort) Click on it for […]

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“Not bovvered” in Downing Street
(US readers: for background that will help you understand / get the joke in the above, first check this page and the video on it)
Technorati Tags: Downing Street, Comic Relief, Tony Blair

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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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