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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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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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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The coasters. The crockery (don’t miss the mushroom shelves). And the cards. (Beware, a bit naughty at the language end….)
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Ron Moore is going to be writing the screenplay for the new version of The Thing. (via Variety and various other sources)
Go Ron!!
(And something from the Variety article that seems to have slipped under the radar: “Moore, who’s repped by CAA, just scripted an “I, Robot” sequel for Fox.”)
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For those of you who’ve been asking: here’s what I’m doing at LACon. (For Peter’s schedule, you should go check his LiveJournal later today: he’ll be putting his details up there. He’s a lot more lightly scheduled than I am, though, by his own request.) (Oh, and the master schedule for the con is […]

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The Independent has turned Comet Swift-Tuttle into Comet Swift-Turtle. Twice.
(Not only a typo, but an oxymoron…! Nice going, guys and gals.)
Oh well. Hope it clears up a little so that we can see the Perseids…
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Too cool.
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Won’t need sugar in the tea this morning…
Bengal Cats of Adventure Beach
(Hmm… I wonder if anyone in Ireland is breeding these guys…)
Now playing: Kenneth Gilbert - Air vif pour Zephire et la Rose (piece croisee)
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On summer evenings, when the little ultrasonic things that keep bugs and mice out of the house are turned on, if the windows are going to be open, turn the ultrasonics off. Otherwise the local pipistrelle bats come in the windows and start hunting through the house for the strange mutant bat-thing that’s suddenly […]

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Stephanie Jaworski’s venerable JoyOfCakes.com has been beautifully redesigned. I wandered over there this morning and instantly started drooling.
(sigh) Duane’s Twelfth Law: You will always come across a particularly scrumptious-looking food site at the moment when you were just getting into the business of dumping a few pounds. Feh…
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Lots of people come to our Irish recipe pages at the European Cuisines website in search of “the genuine Irish Coffee” recipe. We’ve had the recipe in text form for a long time, but now the website of the World Irish Coffee Festival has given Irish Coffee its own online presence detailing its history […]

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nk(t+1) — nk(t) = w(k-1)(t)*n(k-1)(t) — wk(t)*nk(t) + sigma(k,1)*u(t)
Or in other words:  Sniping is the best way to win on eBay.
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And every one unique, apparently.

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(When I did my internet order last night, I thought I ordered two rainbow trout from the folks at Tesco; however, they sent me two kilograms of them. Probably my mistake. So six of them go in the freezer, and the last one gets held out to go on the BBQ. Goodman and Pip […]

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