“We’ve still got part of Jamaica stuck to Queensland,” said Australian army commander Lt. Gen. Peter Cosgrove. “I think we might have declared war on it. I don’t bloody remember.…
I’m voting for Charlie Stross for Evil Overlord. …What do you mean I don’t get a vote…??
“SACRAMENTO: California’s governor-elect has been sent back in time to preemptively eliminate a chief rival from the 2006 gubernatorial election, the Schwarzenegger campaign revealed last night. “The target of the…
Oops, wrong one. (Their version of “Samhain” is an open source file integrity and host-based intrusion detection system for Unix and Linux. They also do Beltane, a web-based central management…
On reading from the same [“fair/balanced”] page of the hymnbook…
“Press release: “Out of Ambit was the subject of much speculation when analysts at several firms were heard to be very positive about it’s recent performance.It’s share price rose from…
Note to self…pick up this book…
I see from Kathryn Cramer’s weblog that Hal Clement died yesterday. Hal was such a gentleman…funny, scarily intelligent…and probably the only math teacher I ever really liked. He was a…
They’re diffuse, but we’ve got them. From our position in west Wicklow, the whole northern sky is lit up with a greenish glow. The beginnings of spikes and “curtain” formations…
This image of the southern California coast was taken at 18:25 PST on 28 Oct 2003. It links to a really large image from the MODIS Rapid Response Project at…
…I opened the back door and saw this. This is a great place to live…
Where Ikea gets its furniture names. “…Bathroom items are named after Scandinavian lakes, rivers and bays; sets of bookcases after occupations; dining tables and chairs after Finnish placenames; carpets after…
The Sun chucked an X-17 level flare at us this morning — not something that happens every day. SpaceWeather.com suggests that it’s been quite a few years since the Sun…
— some episode or other. But then, after being involved with Trek for so long in one way or another, I might just be hallucinating. Anyway, via Slashdot: The Laser…
…until I have one of these. Now I have just got to find out what’s going on with these people. Er, pandas. …I see at least a couple of “stock”…
And not just in LA. Giant sunspots 484 and 486 continue to transit the face of the sun, spitting off X-class solar flares every now and then. This prominence, according…
For these parts, anyway, where “really, really cold” usually means -5C. …Everything is gently silvered around the edges, as if God dusted the whole area with a really high grade…
Usually when I coin a word I do it as a joke. Today I’m impelled to do it on purpose. Probably somebody else has invented a better word for a…
to go hear a performance of just about anything at this place.
This picture of him is probably my favorite because it’s the first one I ever took of him: we were having lunch at the restaurant by the Boat Basin in…
That review in the blog entry of a couple days ago made me start thinking about the reviews I see a little more often than the ones in print: I…
I’ve been putting things in and taking them out… Meanwhile, if you’re tired of looking at the white-on-white color scheme, look down at the bottom of the third column…the links…
The only things missing are the words “Must try harder.”
“Spitfire [a new publisher about to start up in the UK] wants a return to adventure stories where men are men and debauchery is welcomed along with smoking and drinking.…