And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit? New! now with extra #loudtweet editing! So stop your whining.

• 11:02 Blue Ducks likely to die out in UK after male birds get together: My sister already made the 'hello .. tinyurl.com/cj2y3d #
• 14:44 I'm not OK #
• 14:52 Does anyone in London want to come see the Now Show with me next ( Read more... )

And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit?

• 23:28 New LJ post: Brat Twitters tinyurl.com/dfx3qv #
• 09:56 Linkspam: CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks: Thanks, Rick. One for me to subscribe to when I get home. www.cbc.ca/quirks/ #
• 10:17 Huh, I appear to be having a nosebleed. #
• 10:56 Linkspam: Hubble's Next Discovery - You Decide: Vote ( Read more... )

If you've been a) living under a rock, or b) simply occupying a mental space that's not the same as mine, it's possible you might not be aware that this year - February 12th to be precise - is the 200th anniversary of a man called Charles Darwin, who when he was 50 (and thus 150 years ago this year) published a certain book called On the Origin of ( Read more... )

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  A Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks
  
  I kind of sort of think these are a must
  
  (tags: steampunk shinylust)
  
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  SGALGG: The Call in Gay Edition
  
  Tomorrow, Wednesday 10th, is Day without a Gay in the States. Call in gay to work, you know you want to.
  
  (tags: equality ( Read more... )

The following contains twittering:

• 11:45 *grits teeth* the nearest relative we have in picture form to pterosaurs is a dinosaur. I'll use that pic, BUT I'M NOT HAPPY. #
• 12:32 Hallowe'en approached me under the radar this year and so I have no plans. Other than to prepare for NOVEMBRAT eeeeeeeeeeee #
• 14:08 after a freezing cold walk to the comic ( Read more... )

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This is interesting, especially how smug I was at the beginning that of course I'd win the whole thing. (Hint: I didn't)

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[YouTube Link]Boasting of my zenness yesterday turned out to be far too tempting for Fate, and I managed to give myself an anxiety attack in the evening. I think how I should have viewed it, is that I've managed to let go of ( Read more... )

Things I know I missed:
1) Supernatural is misogynistic.Also, grass is green and things fall downwards. Let's wank about that next.
2) Zombie Radio is casting (da_zhuang, I'm looking at you)
3) Lesbians can now have kids legally, and the crazy anti-choicers lost, ha!
4) Brian K Vaughan is linked to the Runaways movie. The trouble is, you just know it's not ( Read more... )

My love of stories almost certainly came from the use of books-as-babysitters as a child - I know my sister loves stories as much as I do, although she leans towards romcoms and chickflicks where I caught a bad case of the SciFi from the InnerDad ( Read more... )

The reason I go to as many now_show recordings as I do is that, as I'm sure you've guessed, I'm a massive Mitch Benn fan, and a) am too cheap to pay for his shows, and b) he always records three songs on Thursday, of which only are broadcast on Friday ( Read more... )