An article about Captain Jack Harkness: Captain Jack And River Song Met, Decided They Want A 'Doctor Who' Spinoff. Well, of course they do.

I'd like it too, if only because it's not likely to be the dirge to morosity that Torchwood Miracle Day was. And since the loss of Elisabeth Sladen and The Sarah Jane Adventures, there's a gap to be filled ( Read more... )

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Maybe things aren't as bad as they seemed: maybe they saved most of the manuscripts Timbuktu after all.

How I hope.

And I hope the international attention earns them the manpower and resources to get the manuscripts digitized and preserved safely.

Today I was looking at a list of the numbers of women who die in childbirth by country and I was surprised to see that the death rate of mothers in Canada was much less than in the U.S. - 6.6 deaths per 100,000 live births as contrasted 16.7 in the States ( Read more... )

Bowe Cleveland was one of the kids shot in one of the recent schools shootings - and what a hearbreaking phrase that is. Shot in the chest and abdomen, he is being slowly awakened from an induced coma. He was a Spider-Man fan. Stan Lee sent him a video-taped message, which you can see on Comic Book ResourcesThe comments are interesting, ( Read more... )

An item about my sport of choice: jousting.

Hoping to see more this year.

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It seems to me bizarre that the U.S. courts are once again examining the gay marriage question and the Defense of Marriage Act.

It seems bizarre that a nation built on equality for all should make laws denying equality to gays.

Something wrong with the logic.

auriaephiala pointed me to this exchange, and I'm glad she did. Very interesting.

Starting point: lyda222's Livejournal, where she talks about Rob Bricken's Fan Fiction Friday on io9, in which he ridicules a Steve/Tony slash story and a Harry Potter storyAnd she makes some very cogent, significant points: that fanfic, especially erotic fanfic, and ( Read more... )

More in the "truth is stranger than fiction" department: Antivirus software developer John McAfee accused of murder in Belize. I'd be hard put to say which part of the story is most bizarre.