From Variety: Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme are headed back to NBC. Peacock has won an intense bidding war for the next TV show from “The West Wing” duo, an…
…that blogging was a Russian inwention? Prince Vladimir Odoevsky, 1803-1869, was a gifted man. Apart from writing philosophical books, stories for children and composing pieces of music, he also wrote…
A Dutch witch has won her battle to make the cost of her brooms and spell-making lessons tax-deductable.
Absolutely. General Zod for President in 2008 (thanks to Peter David)
I’ve been spending a lot of time recently with a book I’m really fond of — E. S. Turner’s Boys Will Be Boys: The story of Sweeney Todd, Deadwood Dick,…
And not the dear old “Google’s Moonbase Is Hiring” ad, either. Web search firm Google has formed a partnership with US space agency Nasain an effort to harness new technology…
From the online International Herald Tribune this morning: It happens all the time: during an airport delay the man to the left, a Korean perhaps, starts talking to the man…
From “Fun with Propaganda” at Worth1000.com…
At first literature dealt with gods, and they had no money problems. Then there were godlike heroes who simply took what they wanted and filled their ships with slaves and…
From an International Herald Tribune article on the French “new book season”, this intriguing aside: Houellebecq’s new book has divided France’s critics, with some talking of genius and others of…
(sigh) Attn: self: do not design new title banners for YoungWizards.com and YoungWizards.net and then put them in a directory named “banner”, as no one using Norton Internet Security will…
(snicker) Giblets has heard a whole lotta whining this week about “oh the government screwed up the hurricane rescue” and “oh they did not evacuate the city for days and…
For those of you interested in such things: Rihannsu: The Empty Chair has gone to the publisher. (Just a note to all the nice people stopping in from the TrekBBS…
Courtesy of Coudal Partners: just the thing to print out and keep a few of in your wallet. Click here for the .PDF version: print ’em out, cut ’em up,…
Today’s Handlesman cartoon in Newsday
Very nice indeed. Thank you, Michael…
International aid meant for the victims of Hurricane Katrina is backing up at an Air Force base in Arkansas because relief lorries are being directed to the wrong places. Civilian…
How could anyone not want something with a product description like this? If you really need an unbelievably powerful magnet, here it is. (Scroll down to the bottom of the…
Over on Making Light / Electrolite, Jim McDonald provides this wonderful dissertation on how to live a better life through paying careful attention to English folk ballads. If you’re a…
Whammo. (A transcript of this trenchant op-ed piece is here at MSNBC’s site. Wow, I wish this man did book reviews…) (thanks to Boing Boing for the link to the…
This is useful. NEW YORK (AP) The Associated Press is offering Internet access to a satellite image that covers most of New Orleans, detailed enough that viewers can zoom in…
I have a feeling this story is going to likely to start attracting more attention in the days to come… In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in…
I have never seen language in a National Weather Service statement like this before. I’m thinking of all you folks down there (and in Mobile and Biloxi and all along…
In more ways than one. First of all, the fog of painkillers has lifted, thank heaven. (I like what they do but I hate how they do it. I’ve been…