Huh, so fish oil is no longer a thing? Oy.

This is an incisive comic about dealing with race and racism in the comics world.

Fantasy shopping: a chaise longue for my living room. (I don't have room for it, or money, but I like the look, and I find them so comfortable...)

Yum, Irish whiskey.

Noted for later reading: The tyranny of ( Read more... )

Fascinating story about the market for single leaves from rare or antique books. And here's a more detailed account (with pictures) from an antiquarian.

This looks like a tasty vegetarian soup. (Which I will probably make with chicken stock and/or chicken sausages…)

Noted for later: The Irish clan behind Europe's rhino-horn theft epidemic. Doesn ( Read more... )

... man, that was awesome. Even the art was better.

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Anyone who remembers with fondness M's The Kids Aren't All Right, her brilliant Iron Man story masquerading as a Vanity Fair profile, might be intrigued by these two snippets. ETA: sorry, link is bad, will fix later.

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Vintage Space hosts a space carnival this week--a roundup of posts and articles about space exploration ( Read more... )

Regular updates will be resuming soon, once I restock my refrigerator and dig out from the backlog of email at the office. Thank heavens for a cleaning service I can pay automatically: nothing beats coming home to a pristine house after 20+ hours in buses, planes, and airports.

(Fannish) things to do this week:

-- go see The Hunger Games-- find ( Read more... )

It's Friday, so clearly there should be baby leopards. Awwww.

I love fanwanks like this: the scientific basis for the bending in ATLA. Hee. (Of course someone in the comments points out a bunch of errors in the logic--wtf electromagnetic fields are not the same as gravity, fr'instance--but it's still entertaining ( Read more... )

I have no opinion on Apple's iPhone antenna issues, but I love this commentary on it anyway. I am a Fangirl for Logic!

Y'all have no doubt seen the squeeing about the new animated show The Legend of Korra (minor character-related spoilers there). The WSJ wants to know why a female hero? (Which just makes me roll my eyes, but whatever.) And ( Read more... )

EEEEeeee! The first art has appeared for Avatar: The Legend of Korra! Female Water Tribe Waterbending Avatar FTW. With bonus steampunk!

Henry Jenkins and a thousand or so Harry Potter fans at the Infinitus convention got to visit the new theme park in Orlando. Here is his report.

Hyperbole & a Half loves pie more than cake, which is only ( Read more... )

sophie has a clarification on LJ's plan to purge journals and communities. To wit: the purge only applies to Unpaid journals and communities that have only one entry (or none), and in which there has been no activity in the last 24 months. She lays it out more clearly, but that's the gist of it. Whew--this means I don't have to run around finding a ( Read more... )