Out of Ambit
Note to self
A flying jet ski. Sort of.
Well, why not? And this thing looks desperately cool. “Everyone’s dreamt of flying free as a bird. Nano is for the fun of flying – no passengers, no cargo – just you, Nano and the endless blue. If you’ve ever had a pilot’s licence you’ll fly Nano right out of the box. The rest of [...]
A note in passing: for those hunting cheap flights in Europe
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 [...]
In the meme
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 it’d [...]
It’ll be interesting to see how this pans out
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 [...]
Happy-making things at Design*Sponge
The coasters. The crockery (don’t miss the mushroom shelves). And the cards. (Beware, a bit naughty at the language end….) [tags]design, art, coaster, crockery, cup, shelf, cards[/tags]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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