Peter says, “Why aren’t they doing this in Texas?” Well, whatever: maybe they wanted mountains and barbecue. (And I have always told him that the only people crazier about BBQ…
The pond behind our house is famous locally for its swans, which come here every year to raise a family. Normally, anyway. They didn’t settle in last year, because the…
Not surprised to see this plan to notify Dublin students’ parents of school absenteeism by SMS text messaging. Judged by percentage of population, Ireland has one of the biggest percentages…
Someone’s got to explain this one to me. What the heck is this about? (And am I hallucinating a slight similarity of this cat to the one in the Kikko…
Voyeurism in avian mode. (Via the wonderful Geisha asobi blog.)
It was a pretty one. The SOHO spacecraft’s website has movies of yesterday’s transit of the planet Mercury across the face of the Sun, as well as other delights. The…
What a relief.
A long read, but this article from Harper’s made me feel as if I’d fallen into a particularly nasty part of Heinlein’s “Future History” timeline.
So today we relax a little…but not too much, as this afternoon we’ll hear back from our production partners, and they’ll have notes on The Ring. There are always notes.…
So The Ring went to the producers this morning. Now Peter wants to go to the pub. I don’t know if I can cope with that: I’m wrecked. I really…
Well, it was a close thing, but I managed to eat it before he did. The late and much-missed Lilith used to have this virtue: that she could unerringly find…
Actually, I don’t know why I didn’t have to do any. Anyway, the shubunkin has stopped chasing the golden orfe around. Maybe it was just bored. …Two more days of…
Via Gawker, from the NY Observer: genuine NY kids fill in the rest of the sentence, “When you’re 10, you should be able to…”
After four years running NBC’s “The West Wing,” the show’s creator and exec producer has elected to leave the Warner Bros. TV-produced White House drama. Exec producer-helmer Thomas Schlamme is…
I had to laugh a few times at the tone of this Variety column from their normally-moderately-clued-in commentator on the interface of the literary world with the world of TV…
From the BBC website this morning: Baboons “protesting” at the killing of one of their group have disrupted traffic on the busy Tororo-Jinja highway in eastern Uganda.”
Via Boingboing: a tale of the delights of suing that telemarketer who woke you up at half past five in the morning, with hyperlinks that turn it into a most…
Or it did around here when I read the rest of this BBC article, which alleges that the Americans are refusing to arrest Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf because he’s not on…
There seems to have been something wrong with the post about C.S. Lewis’s childhood home. It’s fixed now.
The giant ugly pile of dirt produced by Peter’s excavation of the fishpond site is gone. Gone, gone, gone, and every ounce of it shifted by my own two hands,…
What a great site! LogoType features 72,000+ logos from all over the world. A super stimulus for us crazed graphic-design fans. (NB: these are copyrighted, not clipart.) Thanks to Joey…
Oh good. (The above from remarks by the Irish minister for health regarding keeping SARS from getting a foothold in Ireland. To quote [in case the Irish Times article is…
The house which inspired some of the material in C. S. Lewis’s “Narnia” books is up for sale.
Check this out first. A tutorial on How to Bow! (Thanks to Languagehat for the link.)