Subtitle: Juxtapositions. Or two things make a post.

I've been catching up some old Radiolab podcasts, and I've just finished listening to the episode WordsThis episode concerns four people or groups of people, who at some point have no language, and then later acquire it, and the changes that follow ( Read more... )

Let's look at the Evil League Of Evil's Sad Puppie's demands:

Larry Correia

First and foremost, you guys need to decide, once and for all, what the Hugo Awards really are. There are two choices ( Read more... )

Very busy at work. No lunch break today.

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Why do cats sit on papers?

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Some photo's of the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe. Increasing large bundles of bank notes paying for nothing. An every increasing number of zeros added to new note issued. They knocked 10 zeros off the end earlier this year, and may have to do it again before the year is out ( Read more... )

The other day the Google blog observed that "fewer teens are wearing watches now because they use their phones to tell time instead"

I'd been wondered about that myself a while ago. Fortunately I knew an author who was looking explain, the mythology of mobile phones and other modern fairy talesI don't normally read Fantasy, but I really enjoyed ( Read more... )

You might think that this comic strip about a cat's blog sounds silly, but cats' who own SF authors, or the power of procrastination.

Did anyone hear about the mobile Sci-Fi library associated with the Folkestone Triennial on the Today show this morning? I can't find much about it online, and it sounded interesting.

The zombie apocalypse if it's not only humans affected.

( Zombie meme )

When Watson told Holmes about some recent scientific discovery, Holmes replied with a statement to the effect that he'd try and forget it as soon as possible, as his mind was a tidy place, and he had no use for this fact ( Read more... )

For no obvious reason, other than a geekish need to catalogue things, I have 6 custom friend groups for SF. The rules are that Journals go in the first one that matches where I primarily know it from. And no, I'm not posting them, because I've probably got some wrong, and I don't want to offend. I don't lock, read, or do anything based on them.

1. SF ( Read more... )

... just Thurday, and the bullet points: I'll try and turn them into a coherent report at some point soon.

Thursday:
Jonathan Coulton gig. Fail to recognise any of the fen who I knew would be there ( Read more... )

Amusing bit of flash fiction. What if wiki fiddlers had use of time machine?.

seen at Neil's single editor wiki.

Particularly appropriate give the edit-fest going on at