hat tip to dkogan

http://www.reallifecomics.com/     Aug 12, if you use this link later.

( slight spoiler )

Many of you have already seen this, but for those who haven't, courtesy of colliemommie, a filk of Hamlet tto American Pie, with lyrics:

http://thefump.com/lyrics.php?id=1014

A travel column in the New York Times, which requires registration.

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/travel/30next.html(It is about an hour away.  One of the advantages that rural Vermont sees in Burlington is that it is so close to Vermont.  The politics tend to be a bit different.  Also, the population density ( Read more... )

For those few on my FL who don't already know it, the first chapter of volume 2 of Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife - Legacy has been posted:

http://outofthiseos.typepad.com/blog/2007/06/the_sharing_kni.html

[EDIT
More is available at this link:

http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061139055/The_Sharing_Knife_Volume_Two/excerpt.aspxend ( Read more... )

Dennis Overbye has an essay on the New York Times (registration required) lamenting the prediction that soon we won't be able to see anything but what's in our local galaxy cluster.  (And that might have merged into a single galaxy.)  That will long have ceased to interest anyone around here, but he is thinking of future societies trying to figure ( Read more... )

or,
We can all be chauvinistic* if we work at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL7uW4TYqbs

*I'm the one accused, (the video is a Vermont-themed rap) not the boys - this was shot about 10 miles, or a couple towns and several farms, away.  No, I don't know them.

Below the cut are some links to related not-locked FL discussions on Heliocentrism=Atheism and "The God Delusion", because some of the discussions are good (and related, in my mind), and I want pointers collected.

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These people email a quiz each week; I thought this week's might amuse some of you.

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from the LMB list

And then I was eaten by a grue

For those few on my FL who aren't also on the LMB list, there are three sample chapters of Lois McMaster Bujold's The Sharing Knife : Beguilement now up here.   Fantasy, set in a new universe, neither Vorkoverse or Five Gods.  Indeed, one might call this one Absent Gods.  First half of a duology, 2d half already written and in production, you don't ( Read more... )