It hasn’t been the best ten days or so. I’ve spent most of it codeined out of my mind in attempts to deal with the pain while the antibiotics deal…
Never leave your unit in a freezer, convection oven, or cyclotron unless the Cell Phone function is set to END CHARGING (U symbol; Ü symbol on German-language units). …To operate…
Neal Stephenson is just a wow. From the interview on Slashdot: (Fight 1 of The Three Fights of Stephenson and Gibson:) I was doing a reading/signing at White Dwarf Books…
But the line’s still worth repeating: “Daleks do not do porn.”
Ling long women’s magazine, published in Shanghai from 1931 to 1937, was popular during a time of dramatic material, social, and political change in China. Today, the magazine offers researchers…
Normally the words “Vatican” and “Astronomer” occurring in the same sentence produce three words from me: “Giardino. Bruno. Apologize!!“. Nice to be given a reason for the two words occurring…
Well, why the feck not? Doogle.org (Not work-safe if your employer has trouble with the words “feck”, “drink”, “arse”, “girls”, or “Eurovision.”)
Okay, probably the North too. Icebergs sing… Sound waves from the iceberg had a frequency of about 0.5Hz, too low to be heard by humans, but when they were played…
Yet another critic takes a quick run at understanding C.S. Lewis in the New Yorker… The two Lewises — the British bleeding don and the complacent American saint — do…
ETA: sorry, all the media previously linked to this is out of date… it needs to be converted to something more apropos for this decade. Please bear with me. From…
But the Incredible Hulk likes Cream of Rice. …I’m very fond of the Hulk. (And Doctor Strange, too, but in a different kind of way. Love that mustache. Nobody tell…
Posts like this are why when Charlie Stross starts holding forth about stuff, I tend to sit there in staring dumbstruck admiration with anime drool coming out of my mouth.…
I’ve had a report that YW.com is crashing Firefox 1.06 on Linux. Is anyone else seeing this? Please let me know.
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The Golden Spurtle. (Before your eyebrows go up too high, you should be told that this is simply the prize for winning the World Porridge-Making Championships. Ready to sign up?…
Awwww!! Cleese, who played a lemur-happy zookeeper in the 1997 film Fierce Creatures and hosted 1998 documentary Born to Be Wild: Operation Lemur with John Cleese, the comic now has…
“This is 911, what’s the nature of your emergency? “—Yes, ma’am, that’s fine, your local Lensman will be with you shortly. —No ma’am, I couldn’t say just when. The coatings…
“The Pennsylvania Game Commission asks anyone who has seen a deer with a pumpkin head to call 1-814-643-1831.”
The parrot Koki of the former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito has been put under quarantine as a precautionary measure following the bird flu cases reported in Croatia, DPA reported.…
Courtesy of FanDominion: According to a report in Variety, the SciFi Channel has bought the U.S. rights to the German sword and sorcery epic, Ring of the Nibelungs. The network…
And so I cook. MMMMM—– Recipe via Meal-Master ™ v8.05 Title: Shin of Beef Stewed in Red Wine Categories: Beef, French, Meat, Stew Yield: 6 Servings 6 oz Smoked bacon…
Uh. Er. Do not play in two halves. Rather play in one half or three halves in order to completely differentiate yourselves from the heretics, the polytheists, the corrupted and…
From the weblog of the alter ego of the guest star of Wizards at War, pp. 525-527: I found out the other day that there exist in Japanese lyrics to…