Hugo voting deadline impends
The deadline for submitting a Hugo and Campbell Award ballot is Monday, 31 July. As always, I encourage those of...
Archive for Humor
Video roundup, part 2
Here's the promised second set of videos. If you're short on time, skip down to the cute pet videos at...
Video roundup, part 1
It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a...
Things to do on dates
A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,...
Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly
Back around the end of March, I bought Willie Nelson's recording of the catchy gay cowboy song "Cowboys Are Frequently...
Jailbreak
Elliott M. sent out the following particularly silly email long ago; for some reason I had occasion to quote it...
Five-minute summaries
Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute "Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries" comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,...
Items: Art
Some assorted links, under the very broad heading of "art": Google recently bought the company that makes SketchUp, an application...
Slashdot, cuteness, etc.
Meanwhile, in perhaps-related news, Slashdot has discovered Cute Overload. And Slashdot itself has decided on an all-pink look, to appeal...
Contextual dating and ads on the moon
Two items just in: First, Google to advertise on the moon, a vnunet.com article by one Arif Pollo, published today....
Items: Video
Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some...
Earworm: Somewhere That’s Green
The other day the song "Somewhere That's Green" (from Little Shop of Horrors, though I have the movie soundtrack rather...