…for rigorous medicine applied to that often non-medically-rigorous venue, the comics. The most recent example, quoted at length (and there’s more at source — I trimmed it a little): Dr. Koslowski…

Today’s delights from LJ’s Metaquotes community: Deep Ones! Meet the Deep Ones! / They’re a rugose, squamous familyyyyy… “…OH CHRIST WHO LET JOKER HAVE PENCILS!?” …In these days “batshit” literally meant…

Two World of Warcraft players use treadmills to run around Azeroth: almost suffer heart attack (Thanks to Christy Marx for this.)   Tags: World+of+Warcraft, running, treadmill, players, online+gaming, MMORPG, Christy+Marx

This is a fun thing. Turn the text content of your blog, website or other RSS-source into graphic art… Tags: Wordle, graphic, text, website, blog, RSS

Folks, work on the present project has run a a couple of days further into this week than planned, so it’s going to be Thursday or Friday before I can…

By Harvey Nichols, yet.   Tags: Wallace, Gromit, makeover, Harvey+Nichols, Harvey+Nicks, clothes, fashion, Lady+Campanula, Tottington

This is fun. (via Cynical-C Blog)    Tags: telescopic, text, fun, words

In today’s “moos:“ German scientists using satellite images posted online by the Google Earth software program have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for…

Baby Bariatrics (Gazelle milk, huh?)  Tags: gazelle, milk, chubby, baby, bariatrics, spoof

Srsly. Now all we need to hear is that Hitler was somehow involved and we’ll have the perfect documentary pitch for The History Channel. (It could have made a good…

As described by Tim the Enchanter.  …But with more yarn. (Courtesy of AntiCraft) (ETA: The Rabbit of Caerbannog has its own Wikipedia page. With lots of citations. Who knew?)  …

Beth’s boss Amanda Palmer lost her jacket in Hamburg while on tour. (And has lost and broken some other things too, and is sad about them generally, but really misses…

A lot of traffic finds its way to Out of Ambit via Google. Some of the searches (as they display in the system / stats logs) are interesting. A selection from the last…

I really hate to have to post this, but due to last-minute developments secondary to a current work commitment, Peter and I will not be able to attend the Discworld Convention…

Here, try this on for size. Random House Children’s Books has agreed to remove a four-letter swearword from a popular book by Dame Jacqueline Wilson after complaints from Anne Dixon,…

This popped up earlier in the month, but I was busy and didn’t notice. (Possibly a good thing: that’s three weeks less spent fuming.) A major publisher is starting to insert…

Folks, just a quick word: this week has become unusually disrupted due to other work that’s going on in-house, so I’m going to have to postpone the chapter posting until…

— if Fox has its way? A federal judge has denied Warner Bros.’ motion to dismiss 20th Century Fox’s current lawsuit against it, claiming that Fox still owns rights in…

This German website, when you click one or another spot on the main image, shows you both the inside and the outside of a package of food — that is,…

So who else remembers that great line from the film Crazy People? It featured Dudley Moore as an off-the-rails, burnt-or-burning-out ad exec who is chucked into a psychiatric hospital and…

In the NY Times travel section. Tags: food, prices, US+airlines, flights, US

This came up the other day. Now I see that Mark Evanier has had an email about it too. But then Mark does one of the things he does best…

Gorgeous. Tags: Enceladus, Saturn, moon, space, probe, ice, life, solar+system

I’m very fond of the LJ community customers_suck. I read it often to remind myself of the dreadful crap that almost all service-providers have to put up with at one…