For those of you who’re interested, Chapter Five of The Big Meow, the last volume in the Feline Wizardry trilogy, is now available online for non-subscribers. Chapter Six will be…

The world’s first online truffle market. (English-language description here at FrenchDuck.)

Certain seasons, anyway. And certain planets / galaxies. (courtesy of The Bündners in Züri) Now playing: Various Artists – The Lady In Red

“At the dead of night, two noble planets, Tarva and Alambil, will pass within one degree of each other. Such a conjunction has not occurred for two hundred years.” (Dr.…

While I’m in the food mood: At Eater, “Adventures in Shilling #101” Food Trivia Quiz at Slashfood Fun with the Fabulous Plantain Smoosher (aka “Tostobueno”) at Off The Broiler Lussekatter…

Like (it seems) about half the Internet-connected bread bakers on the planet, I’ve been experimenting with the New York Times-published recipe from Sullivan Street Bakery’s Jim Lahey for no-knead bread.…

I was sitting in one of the cafés in our nearby shopping town this morning, listening to the (sigh: inevitable, this is Ireland) Christmas music playing in the background. What…

Sometimes you do wonder. Taking their inspiration from “Team America,” an enterprising group of British filmmakers has started work on “Jackboots on Whitehall,” a WW2 comedy spoof using action figures…

Just for those of you who might be interested: Sky has a good-sized Hogfather page.

Guns? They’re giving them guns now?? Erik Estrada and other lesser celebrities have been sworn in as reserve officers of the city police department here, allowing them to carry badges…

Hey, look: it’s the congressional version of a Hugo Losers’ Party. A closed-door panel of defeated and retiring members [of the U.S. Congress], including Katherine Harris, R-Fla.; Clay Shaw, R-Fla.;…

Here you go, folks… The Hogfather trailer Wouldn’t mind a copy of the “Making Of…” trailer, though, with Our Ter’ in his toymaker costume. Meanwhile, Terry tells a naughty joke…

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…

Goodle. It’s Google News…but all good. Including: World Peace sparks outpourings of joy George Lucas to refilm all three Star Wars prequels Spam drying up Scientists pack up: “Everything explained”…

And too many desserts, if you ask me. [tags]White House, Barney, dessert, menu[/tags]

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]

I now have a personal referent for the phrase “horrified fascination”. It’s the inability to stop watching this unfold. The latest developments: Haha, I’m partying with Paris and you’re not.…

…just for its name. Sitting in front of a veteran agent’s desk are two cases of Red Car Syrah … (Well, I’d hope it was also a nice wine.) …But…

Lester Dent’s Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot (…The challenge now being to adapt it for novel use, and to find out whether it works. Certainly a lot of the advice…

I swear, it’s like watching high-stakes poker on TV. But high-stakes poker played by six-year-olds. i m divorcin u kthxbye Oh yeah? I want a lot of money or I’m…

Or at least the one involving the most people. Five simultaneous operations…and the whole thing triggered by one person willing to give one of her kidneys to anybody who needed…

…is showing in this column by a writer who previously worked with OJ Simpson’s editor… The editor who propelled Rush Limbaugh into the national spotlight, who claimed to have rewritten…

I was going through some old video footage of a Christmastime trip to Basel in Switzerland, and found this footage of the Christmas Market there. Very relaxing. Have a peek…

I came across this comment about me a little bit ago, and it started me thinking: Next you’ll be telling me she’s not really a libertarian. This made me go…