Dude. Two people I have personally met won awards at the Nebulas tonight.

Congratulations to Naomi Novik for winning the Nebula for best novel for Uprooted!

And congratulations to Fran Wilde for winning the Andre Norton award for YA for Updraft! It's her first novel! Woah.

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The science behind how awesome running is. Now if only my vertigo ( Read more... )

thank God that bookstore's gone-now we can buy handbags. The Commuty Bookstore in Brooklyn is closing. Fabulous guy.

Interesting photo essay on women's fashion: Who created the bodycon dress.

I haven't read any Sylvia Townsend Warner, except maybe I read Kingdoms of Elfin once many years ago? Anyway, this looks entertaining. I'm not sold by ( Read more... )

OK, this is seriously cool. All of the Cornell ornithology lab's nature sounds, digitized.

I need to watch this documentary.

I had no idea that Warren Buffet was so cool. His & his first wife's family foundation is funding the development & distribution of low-cost IUDs.

Do you need to be pleased and impressed? How about a seriously badass ( Read more... )

7 miles! Go me! *\o/*

Gotta love those foggy mornings.

Crossposted from DW, where there are
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(See, I DO have a Star Wars icon!)

In other news, yes, your dog loves you.

Oh, man, this flowchart about whether to go to law school. Yikes. If it had existed in 1989, my life would be very different now.

Chris McDougall's Born to Run kicked off the minimalist running movement. He's hoping to do the same with parkour in his new book, Natural ( Read more... )

So, I think Zombies, Run! is pretty awesome: it ties fannish interest in narrative to exercise in such a way that if you want to know what happens, you have to exercise. I love this. Note, it's frustrating because I can't spend all my time running, and I want to catch up with the story! But it's hella creative and fun, and just brilliantly done ( Read more... )

The temperatures have finally dropped here, and I'm huddled on the futon in one of my mother's oversized cashmere sweaters, too lazy to go turn the heat up. I really need to get up, though, and walk the dog.

In the meantime, here's some links:

So this is cool. If you like mashups and indigenous music. And hip-hop. And lots more. Very cool ( Read more... )

Because if I don't post, I forget to post.

1. I watched the first two episodes of Sleepy Hollow with
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Insufficient linkspam (no more for now, as I'm actually working this week):

Here is a lovely Pacific Rim vid by Chaila.

Any pitbull-loving SPN fans will get special enjoyment out of this video. Heh.

I've done enough running to recognize the truth of this essay on the misdesigned human running apparatus.People who like fantasy with good prose, ( Read more... )

Check out some awesome suffragists a century ago. I'm impressed at how fashionable so many of them look. I know those clothes were probably a bear to wear & maintain, but they look fabulous.

You find some of the best writing in sports, I really think you do. Runners World profiles Debbie Heald, who 40 years ago did something nobody had ever done ( Read more... )