(I found it first, but rmd beat me to posting it. But LJ is sluggish enough at the moment that it's easier to post via app than get to her post.)

Conway's game of life implementing the game of life

It's turtles all the way up!

Plucked from my friends list:

The drama, it unfolds before our eyes. How not to steal a Sidekick

Find your Dead Celebrity Soulmate. My favorite result so far is Mata Hari, but I haven't tried men yet.

Words of linguistic expertise: Geeks are only truly perverted when they avoid coitus and other sex acts. Okay ( Read more... )

A podcast (Slice of Sci-Fi or one of its brethren) introduced me to Xombie, a continuing flash-animated story set in a world with sentient zombies.

Tom Smith forwards the important question, "How would the Mighty Thor re-interpret contemporary pop hits?" Smite Me, Infant, One More Time

dictionary_wotd entries that I haven't known this year so far: daedal, ( Read more... )

It's time to send these for another go round my part of the blog-o-verse. How (many) geeks communicate: Tact filters and fanspeak.

Edit: ozarque's journal also came up in the discussion last night. Check it out in general (along with her books). One relevant entry: http://ozarque.livejournal.com/ ( Read more... )

I feel the urge to write a proper update, but I fail to have the time--no, really, it's energy--to write rather than passively consume. Thus! Link sausage!

Also, GIP. *points to icon*

Ahem! Courtesy of wcg, an 18th century trephination set, reserve not yet met. Bid now, bid now!

Courtesy of several people, McSweeney's Cookie Monster Searches ( Read more... )

Attention, llachglin!

Ali G interviews Noam Chomsky: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOIM1_xOSro

I just spent a long weekend in Las Vegas.

What a strange city.

I had great fun playing poker and meeting poker players and seeing shows and all that. Perhaps I'll do a longer post later. In the meantime, my micro-review of Fashionistas:

Erotic aerial silk.
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... and not necessarily in a good way.

Collecting weird fan reactions to Harry Potter 6. Spoilers within.
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* from Salon: Leonard Nimoy takes lovely photographs (some nudes)

* from bryant and others: Kerry suggests McCain as a new Defense Secretary

* from dglenn: an interesting article in the Monterey Herald about how existing married same-sex couples (where one is a transsexual) may have their currently-valid ** marriages tested by scrutiny and even legislative ( Read more... )