What a surprise: Max Clifford has signed on as Shilpa’s representation. (A bigger surprise: that he waited this long.) [tags]Shilpa, Shetty, Big Brother, Max, Clifford[/tags]

The next big thing. Or is it? Some have their doubts. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out… [tags]hafnium, chips, processor, Intel, metal, gates, high-K[/tags]

…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…

With, like, swords. (snort) [tags]writing, agent, samurai[/tags]

So tempting. [tags]FOAD, off and die, letter, writing, contest[/tags]

The transfer to The Big Meow’s new hosting provider at Lunarpages has gone smoothly, and the new installation of Drupal 5.0 is now up and running. Everything seems to be working…

…to its new hosting servers at Lunarpages, starting today. This means that the site will disappear for a while as the domain registrar passes the domain’s internal change-of-address information (DNS)…

It’ll all be here. (BTW, is it just me, or are we having a solar flare / CME? It sure looks like one.) [tags]Peter S. Beagle, Peter Beagle[/tags]

Microwave them. A team of University of Florida Engineering researchers have come to the conclusion that microwaving plastic scrubbers and kitchen sponges on full power can destroy practically 100% of…

I dropped a brief note about this into the last message that went out to subscribers to The Big Meow. Now it’s time to get started letting the world know…

And not so much a new hope, but an old one? This essayist thinks so. If we accept all the Star Wars films as the same canon, then a lot…

It’s good to take a challenge every now and then. From over at Daily15, for today’s challenge word, which is “solstice”: Invictus In the dimness he woke and knew it…

Thanks to everybody who hit the little ChipIn button to help change hosting for The-Big-Meow.com. The necessary funds were raised pronto: we’re now sorting things out with the new hosting provider. The…

Oh, here?  Thanks.  Always wanted a personal blimp.  (I love the little fins…) (via Futurismic and BoingBoing)

Not about Jade. (Well, only peripherally.) So, finally, it was over and it ended, of course, in tears. By an overwhelming majority, the viewers voted to expel Jade and keep…

A moment from a screenplay: EXT. SCHOOL — AFTERNOON The door into the playground cracks softly open. Kit peers out, looks around. Then he slips out, followed by Nita. From…

Those of you who may have been watching the progressive site revamp at The-Big-Meow.com should be warned that, while I was attempting to add some features this morning, some stuff…

Hugh Laurie. I am speechless. I’m literally without a speech. It seems odd to me that in the weeks leading up to this event, when people are falling over themselves…

The TV news often runs in the background while I’m working, and today it seems there’s a ruckus kicking up about the treatment of the Indian actress Shilpa Shetty in…

(Like those UK commercials that showed things like giant hedgehogs running over tiny little trucks.) Normally any time we hear the word “samurai” in a TV news story, Peter and…

“Lots and lots and lots of heart.” …Well, one anyway. Our local craft butcher is sufficiently old-fashioned and down-country that the less commonly seen meats still make a strong showing…

From the newsblog that appears on Blogger’s dashboard page: I am overjoyed to announce that today we have o’ficially graduated the new version of Blogger from “in beta” to “.”…

Thanks to the various people who mailed me about this. I think. Greetings from Amazon.co.uk, We’ve noticed that customers who have expressed interest in The Wizard’s Dilemma (Young Wizards (Paperback))…

Just so that everybody’ll know: I’ve been moving all the content at the old TBM website into a new installation of the Drupal content-management system, which will make everything a…