In a purr-fect ending, a miner with a heart of gold…rescued Molly the cat last night. After spending 14 days stuck in the guts of a 19th-century West Village building,…
Just too cute. (NB: this and many other things [some very non-work-safe] are here. Tags: Japan, Japanese, tea, teapot, fugu
Oh, yeah, it was St. Patrick’s Day, and I was dealing with requests for help with people’s soda bread, or some such. WASHINGTON — President Bush nominated infinitely rapacious cosmic…
The Venus Express has successfully gone into orbit. Yay ESA! After the end of the main engine burn, Venus Express still had to perform a few automatic operations. These included…
Christians Sue For Right Not To Tolerate Policies Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant. Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak…
Wowie! NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise from a dead star’s ashes.The infrared telescope surveyed the scene around a pulsar, the remnant of an…
Yet another cool “missing link”: Fossils of a species of fish in the act of adapting to life on land have been found by scientists, shedding new light on one…
Put Chapter Two up for the subscribers very, very early this morning, and then forgot to edit the gateway page so that other human beings could actually get at it.…
Chapter access and location info for Chapter Two of The Big Meow are now starting to go out (as of around 10:00 GMT) via the subscriber/donor mailing list. The directory…
An idea whose time has come. Don’t think I’m making fun of this. I like grits. (The voice from the next room says, “And I married you anyway…!”) My mother…
The quote that brought you here came from a book I wrote a while ago called Spock’s World, which was the first hardcover Star Trek novel. If I remember correctly…
Now that DianeDuane.com finally has a server, over the next couple of weeks I’m going to start stripping some of the less bloggish stuff out of OOA, including the ancillary…
And railsnails and cogfrogs and other cool mechanicities. The artist is from Kazakhstan. (Thanks to BibliOdyssey for the link) (I also love the index-page Flash animation. There are other witty…
Aww, I can’t resist. Dark Kingdom. Based on this old Norse/Germanic tale about the Ring of the Nibelung. It was pretty nifty. The Queen of Iceland was awesome. So true.…
Well, so it’s finished airing…and SciFi is very pleased. From our producers this morning: The premiere of Dark Kingdom averaged a 1.8 HH rating and 2.109 million total viewers (P2+).…
A mixed bag, as I kind of suspected. (But nearly all funny, one way or the other. My favorite (surprise, surprise) comes from the paper of record: It’s all a…
Online lifeThe Big MeowUncategorizedWriting
New challenge grant goes up over at the "Big Meow" weblog
For those who’re interested, another challenge grant has just gone up. A kindly donor has pledged $400 toward the completion of the Big Meow project…if subscribers / donors match it.…
I ran into this on Amazon this morning while adding something to a wishlist. Down at the bottom of a book’s listing you’ll find this data, harvested (I’d guess) from…
Or rather, just news. Apparently there was a US Premiere party for the miniseries in one of my old home towns, Philadelphia: Phillyist covers it. And will you look at…
Even though our names didn’t get mentioned… who cares? It’s still our baby. (Probably this article requires a subscription to read. But here are our favorite lines:) Ms. Loken, who…
CartoonsComicsGraphic and plastic artsOnline lifeUncategorized
"In the mansion of free speech cartoons have an honourable room…"
My favorite article from the Times this morning… A free society survives partly because the powerful are mocked, and their pretensions undermined. Religions, which guard their own illusions carefully, are…
Not only a kindly review, but kind of a funny one. From Variety: Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King (Miniseries — Sci Fi, Mon.-Tues. March 27-28, 9 p.m.) Filmed in South…
I ran across this reference to the Big Meow project in a nice weblog called Everyday Literacies: Online narrative writing practices, especially those associated with fanfic writing have spawned a…
The subscribers saw it a week ago: now everybody else who’s interested can go take a look. Chapter One of “The Big Meow” is now online at: http://www.the-big-meow.com/ch1/ChapterOneGateway.php So far…