For the guy involved, anyway. “Guy Goma became an overnight sensation … when he was mistaken by a BBC News 24 producer for Guy Kewney, who was supposed to be…

And when I saw it in the Guardian this morning, I thought, “What a neat thing to send to BoingBoing.” Unfortunately Warren Ellis beat me to it. The Nike+ system,…

New from Saturn orbit, courtesy of Cassini. (And Sky & Telescope.) [tags]Cassini, Saturn, Titan, Epimetheus[/tags]

Check out ilovefreewifi.com. (USA only, alas…) The implementation looks a lot like the one the SBB uses to text you information about the next train going from your location to…

Busy busy busy today, (yes, finishing chapter 4 of TBM, for those of you who’re wondering…) but not so busy as to fail to note this: Flickr has gone into…

A robot tarantula. [tags]spider, tarantula, toy, robot, eeeeek[/tags]

…at this moment from Mike Antonucci’s gaming weblog at the Mercury News. He’s talking about things that interested him at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this past week — “Justice…

Apologies to everyone again. The work-related thing that occupied the middle of last week suddenly (after having apparently been put to bed) reared its ugly head once more early on…

In July of 2003 I was called to LA to do some rewrite work on Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (also known as Kingdom in Twilight, Sword of Xanten, Die…

Hikes in the Hollywood Hills: Paris for kids (Though, frankly, I wouldn’t need a kid to be interested in doing most of the things in the second article.)

I have no trouble going to sleep in lighted places if I’m tired enough, but for best results, P. needs it dark This looks like a useful answer: a Lights…

…and a half. The ElectriClerk was built as a prop for “a game of ‘Cthulhu Lives’ that has yet to be played”. The builder took the guts of a 1988-vintage…

The Periodic Table of Food.

For those of you who’re subscribers to The Big Meow: A conflicting work commitment has come up which is going to make it impossible to get the subscribers’ version of…

Not Ghost. Toast. If like us, you suffer from the almost constant disappointment of holy effigies failing to miraculously appear to you during breakfast, well fret no more, because help…

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iPass Inc. and Nokia Enterprise Solutions today announced they are developing iPass wireless connectivity software for the Nokia 9500, the Nokia 9300i and the Nokia Eseries devices. Based on the…

But it’ll probably help. [tags]Ireland, 1916, the Easter Rising[/tags]

The review itself is interesting enough, but I’m most glad I stumbled across it because in passing it helped me identify why I’ve stopped watching “24”. [tags]Mission Impossible:III, MI:III, 24[/tags]

I still haven’t gotten around to getting my NASN subscription going again, so I missed this particular moment. I’m sitll tyring to figure out what my reaction to hearing it…

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. (via muppetk, with thanks.) (…”Kittens??”)

Now I’m happy. Geeks the world over have reason to celebrate today – George Lucas has finally listened to their pleas and is releasing the original versions of the ‘Star…

I am not normally of a litigious turn of mind. But if the incision of the gentleman in this story fails to heal properly, and if I were he, by…

The other morning, an Irish actress and cookbook writer whose food writing I really like — a lady named Biddy White Lennon — was on the morning show on TV3.…