Heh heh heh. “Germany’s Federal Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by leading commercial web RTL Television, which sought to stop the sale of a device known as…
I ran into this over at Late Night Pool (thanks, Rogério!). NewsMap looks at the Google news aggregator and displays its contents more as a work of art than anything…
Get a load of this. “On June 8th, in a tiny village in Slovakia, Tomas Maruska took a picture that is … beyond rare. It shows Venus and the International…
Dated 8 June, 2004: “America Online, Inc. and multiple award winning author Harlan Ellison today announced a settlement of their four-year old copyright dispute. “Ellison sued AOL in April 2000…
The Pedant in the Kitchen is a lot of fun. Peter spotted the book in a swing through Hodges Figgis in Dublin, glanced through it, and handed it to me,…
“The Vatican said Tuesday that fewer witches were burned at the stake during the Inquisition than is generally believed.” Mmf. All right, this would be good news, if true. What…
Just across the road from our house lies a big country estate with all the “country estate” trimmings — a Big House, a lake, gigantic trees, private roads, you name…
Iran used Chalabi to dupe U.S., report says
I was minding my own business when my husband said, “It’s your birthday and we’re going out to dinner.” “Oh?” I said. “Okay. Where? Aya? Gotham Cafe?” “Ma Bourgogne,” he…
I guess I was still having the one-day collapse that followed getting back from those four days away. Never mind. “The historic first image of a planet circling another star…
“Petersen’s skimpily-clad sirens are the men – Brad Pitt’s moody muscleboy Achilles, and Orlando Bloom’s earnest Paris, fragrant and fetching in a floaty, chest-baring blouse (but then, Paris is always…
Poor Cory! What a way to find out what the term means. For those who haven’t heard it before: “U.K.: petty bureaucrat: a minor official who insists on following regulations…
Every now and then I have a small noisy fit about the unnatural things they do to mass-produced bread over here. I see from Blog of a Bookslut that there’s…
Yeah, well. What a surprise. This continent has many microclimates. Meanwhile: in the “Fascinating Google Searches” department (i.e. “what brought people to youngwizards.com”): “magic spell for reading a woman mind”…
It’s been one of those business things that happens when you’re making other plans. (sigh) Zurich/Basel, Strasbourg, Paris, Geneva: one day each. Not enough time to settle in anywhere. A…
Just what I needed: a 419 Scam form letter. (I still can’t get over the scam mail I got from “Mrs. Doris Bongo…mother of Prince Dave Bongo…”. Doubtless this is…
Actually, I knew about it before, but this is the first time I had a link to the OED’s own rundown on the project: ‘Where in the multiverse…?’: researching the…
Interested in having a look without needing to register? Feel free. (The second chapter of Wizards at War is up today, as well.) Now I’m going out to pour weedkiller…
Sounds like it might be. “Organizers of ‘ReJoyce Dublin 2004,’ a festival in honor of Joyce’s modernist classic, plan to dish up a free breakfast for 10,000 people which will…
He’s one of my favorite writers. Not so much for the Madeline books, which are admittedly charming, but for his writing (and illustrating!) about food and hotels. This includes books…
“Can I have a Mountain Dew?” (snort) From the Dead Alewives Theatre: “Dungeons and Dragons: An 8-Bit Re-Enactment.” …And this one too. It’s “Moogles”, BTW, not “muggles”. “Dance or Die”
…for the YW pages (YoungWizards.com and YoungWizards.net): “Listen to young wizards a wizards vacation for free” (sigh) There goes another five cents’ worth of royalties, I guess. (Yes, the books…
Sorry, I couldn’t resist. “Tamale Chef Kills Friend, Cooks Him” (sigh) Human beings. What a species.
All I can say is, once again, thanks so much to BoingBoing. “NUMENOREANS: Life is cool. Why do we have to die? ELVES: You’re human? NUMENOREANS: Can the Valar fix…