Has anyone noticed an odd lack of campaign signs in people's front yards? Not just me, I think?

In other political news, I ordered a set of shattered glass ceiling shot-glasses. Hopefully, they will arrive in time to be used on Election Night.

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I loved this: GQ gets seriously trolled for its sexism by Outdoor Research. This is priceless ( Read more... )

Five things that are awesome ( Read more... )

Short week this week, then short week next week, and then short week the week after that! Short weeks for everyone!

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Many links via MeFi, but not all:

7 ground-breaking X-Files episodes to celebrate UFO day with.

This is a look at the cultural, and class, issues in the food movement: Servings of Small Change. There's research that shows ( Read more... )

So, vidders: what's the word on Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, in which a young man uses the power of remix to save the world? (Apparently you can download the book for free at the above link.)

Connie Britton's new show Nashville starts tonight, and it's being heralded as the best show of the new television season.

Nobel prizes in quackpottery, ( Read more... )

Neil Gaiman has 8 rules for writing (Brain Pickings).

Slate has a roundup of the reviews of J.K. Rowling's new novel.

Speaking of writing, Seanan McGuire refuses to write her female characters being raped. Brava.

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Noted for later: Jay Smooth on the polite way to tell Mitt Romney's family we think he's a weirdo.More politics: why am I ( Read more... )

Was the Apollo Program a boondoggle? One of the bloggers at The Economist says no.

The NYTimes interviews Junot Diaz.

Grantland explains why Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was so awful.

The success of DragonCon continues to fund the criminal defense of this accused pedophile. EW. ::twitches ( Read more... )