Have you voted in the Kalimpura caption contest voting poll?

The Cranky Cave Troll - This explains the attack in the Mines of Moria far better than Peter Jackson ever did. Heh heh heh.

The 10 Most Defining Performances in the History of Genre Television - You'll probably quibble with the picks, but it's a fun list.

Claws out for pilfering ( Read more... )

The End Of Games - Ta-Nehsis Coates on the aging of his personal fandoms. I could have said much the same.

Yes We Clan: Selected Scottish Tartans - Maps, patterns and political history.

Apple reportedly is poaching Google Maps staff - Hey, Apple. I've got a better idea. Give us back our damned Google Maps app.

Touchy: The Human Camera - Japanese ( Read more... )

Patent No. 5,443,036: Method of Exercising a Cat

Broken Letters: A Typogeography of Europe - Fascinating reading if you're either a typeface geek or a history geek.

Which profession drinks the most coffee?

Roundhouse Foundations - Mmm. Trains.

Video urges Singapore couples to make babies - like, now - (Thanks to David Goldman.)

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A review of the current issue of Realms of Fantasy - Including my story "The Fall of the Moon".

Rhonda Eudaly riffing on my notion of psychotic persistence in writing

IKEA Let Loose a Herd of 100 Cats Into Store to 'See What Happens' - (Via danjite.)

Human Slinky - Gaaah! (Thanks, I think, to willyumtx.)

Desert Roads Lead to Discovery in Egypt - Archaeology by ( Read more... )

calendula_witch and I are in a forthcoming anthology from the awesome Subterranean Press

shelly_rae on the semantics of donuts

Today is National Cancer Survivors Day - Ironically this is also my 46th birthday. And my cancer is slightly over two years old, the little bastard. (Thanks to shelly_rae.)

The Beauty of Paper Art - Some wow stuff here. (Thanks to willyumtx.)

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After the recent death of Dao Ming, the_child’s cat, she and her mother this past Wednesday got a new kitten Mei Mei. Last night Mei Mei was killed by a raccoon.

Originally published at jlake.com. You can comment here or there.

Late yesterday afternoon we all hauled out to the Wyoming Infrared Observatory…
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This afternoon Mother of the Child took Pas de Chat, her cat of 23 years (that is not a typo) to the vet to be put to sleep. After about four years of kitty Alzheimer’s and growing completely deaf, Pas de Chat’s quality of life had dropped precipitously over the past few weeks, with no food or water intake for the past several days.

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deedop and the cats. They seem happy, which pleases me.