Here’s a neat page at the website of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research — their Gallery of Nostrums, containing labels from and ads for old patent medicines.…
…Without warning, Carmela came around the corner and pulled Nita out of sight of the dining room. “Who. Is. Your. Friend??” she whispered. “Where did he come from??” “Ireland. There’s…
…completely accidentally, as a link out of the NYC Eats food weblog: Irish sushi. (clutches head again) Thanks, but Aya does just fine for me.
So they told us the new larder fridge and freezer won’t be showing up until ten days or so from now. Great, I thought. One less thing to worry about…
Just in case blogging gets a little sparse around here over the next ten days: this is because Wizards at War is due at the publisher on April 1 (don’t…
Wandering over to Fandom_Wank, I find the following: (sorry, no permalink, please scroll down to it if you’re interested — ) “Just before midnight last night, various places start suggesting…
I love Aya’s new Flash animation. They’re a conveyor-sushi place, and the Flash perfectly conveys (ahem) what they do. Apparently they’re also shortly going to be installing free wireless. Go…
Yes, guys, it was me. (Hi, Judi!) This isn’t the first time I’ve sent some bizarro link Dave’s way. Last time I think it was this — scroll down to…
I found one today. I can’t remember when I first saw this cartoon’s close “relative” — and I saw it in black and white. It involved two kids, Billy and…
For pity’s sake, don’t anyone give these people a copy of The Door into Fire.
It’s the Russian “Giant-Mirrors-In-Space” thing again. But this time it’s SO much worse.
700+ hits from various sources, today, on the “Atlantic Europe: Ireland” page at EuropeanCuisines.com. But this has been the best search string so far: “what part of the cow is…
March 17th again. (A nice day here, fortunately. The rain took itself away just in time to miss the parade.) And as the world turns and the Sun climbs up…
The initial promotional pack from the producers arrived today. Boy, don’t I wish I could just rip the four-minute trailer to a file and post it: but the music on…
“The Spirit rover on Mars took the first picture of Earth ever made from the surface of another planet.” Just. Too. Neat. For. Words.
Lovers of good bookshelves, cast your eyes over here: www.shelfstore.net and www.shelvingsystem.co.uk Especially if you have a lot of paperbacks (we have some thousands), you’ve probably noticed that finding nice-looking…
From the diaries of Debbie of Galilee: “I wanted to get him the perfect thing for his birthday, so I asked Matthew and he said, well, myrrh is good, but…
This is like the Berlin Wall falling, biologically speaking… “…Researchers yesterday reported evidence that appears to topple a decades-old tenet of reproductive biology: that girls are born with all the…
Oh, wow, this is so desperately wonderful. More! More!
“Our robotic inspectors on the surface, the rovers, have yet to find vast stockpiles of water, but keep in mind that Mars is a planet far larger than France and…
…about the small print in the version of the WizPod “ad” on the YW site: here it is. I regret to say that the date has nothing to do with…
So we’re back, and there was no time to blog, as it turned out: there was just too much stuff going on during the trip, both work and play. Now…
…and smiled (a little ruefully). I’ve had a few of these in my time… Meanwhile…we go away tomorrow, and once again I marvel (helplessly) at how, no matter how hard…
It’s almost Fasnacht: so we’ll be heading out for Basel on Friday morning. I’ll blog from there as I can. Phoneblogging is still a little iffy — I don’t believe…