…the Department of Things I Wish I Hadn’t Seen Quite So Early in the Morning: (eyeroll) If you insist on going to http://www.bumpernuts.com, that’s your business. Enjoy.
How a cow from 1937 caused the Iraq war …I really need another cup of tea.
When we first knew that we’d be going to Interaction (about two instants after the bid was declared), Peter and I immediately made an agreement that we wouldn’t be doing…
Zazzah.com is supposed to be a way for people interested in doing freelance courier work to match up directly with shippers hunting couriers…thus cutting out the middleman in such transactions.…
…This really is an issue of fruit. In one hand, you’ve got an orange (evolution). In the other, you’ve got an apple (Intelligent Design). If you engage in a broad…
Ogg Vorbis is claimed to be a patent-clear, fully-open general purpose audio encoding format standard that rivals or surpasses the “upcoming” generation of proprietary coders (AAC and TwinVQ, also known…
All the world’s wiseacres in arms against them Shan’t detach my heart for a single moment From the man-like beasts of the earthy stories– Badger or Moly. Rat the oarsman,…
As noted in the weblog of the noble and wise Neil Gaiman: …the BBC article formerly entitled PRATCHETT ANGER AT ROWLING’S RISE has now transmuted into a much milder article…
Sci-fi fans gather for convention Meanwhile, I wish I understood why the Java applet for the SECC webcam takes so long to load… (A few other Glasgow webcams:) Buchanan Street…
A high street bank has said sorry to a customer after sending him a debit card containing the words “Dick Head”. …I need another cup of tea.
“Allegra” has been with me since 1999. (Yes, that’s a long, long time in computer years…) Several novels have been written on it: its first real job was to be…
Ready for this? The Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway…otherwise known as “The Daddy Longlegs Railway”…. …A railway that needed a sea captain. (From the original article [now missing, possibly…
For those of you who use Windows and also have a Gmail account: check this out. GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your…
And he’s a trip. Like the vast majority of our cats, he was a rescue. We were walking down to the pub a couple of Sundays ago, and (as usual)…
Eric Berne describes the game in Games People Play: the title describes the dynamic well enough. Berne suggests that the game (in its relationship-based form) may be the source of…
If this is true…how interesting. Michael Brown, a planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, announced the discovery over the weekend. But according to the South African Sunday Telegraph,…
…This would be because, at the last Glasgow Worldcon, we were the ToastMr. & Mrs., and had more than enough to do. This time we’re chilling out. This time we…
Woo woo! The planet, which hasn’t been officially named yet, was found by Brown and colleagues using the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San Diego. It is currently…
…(the film features one pyrotechnic blast so massive it could be seen from space, forcing the filmmakers to contact NASA before conducting the stunt). So maybe the “making of…” feature…
Get this: “Fred Thompson is advising Supreme Court nominee John Roberts but plans to perform as usual on ‘Law & Order.’” As a result, TV viewers may witness a surreal…
There has been much ruckus in the Potter “shipping” communities regarding an interview J.K. Rowling did in the wake of the launch of the sixth HP book. J.K. apparently went…
…at YW.Net’s discussion forum, for not being there last night. The house was overwhelmed by one technical problem after another, and I just could not get into the chat area…
…from a fifteen-year-old in Houston. Rowling’s ability to spin complex plots and lay careful clues, to keep readers guessing and elicit “Ohh!” sounds at all the right moments, is the…
Now this is cool. (Or, as regards the planet, hot…) Polish astrophysicist Maciej Konacki has made a revolutionary discovery he believes could send modern astronomy spinning in a new direction…