Watch out - End of Time SPOILERS in comments!

jvowles wrote a gorgeous thank you to the Doctor Who cast and crew.

By complete contrast, I somehow stumbled across m_wesley's 2007 giggle-inducing review of the The Pit.

Pakistan's hijra will now have a legally defined gender of their own.

A remarkable podcast about William Cooper, the Aboriginal activist who ( Read more... )

Smith defends Malaysia on asylum seekers: "Australia is confident Malaysia will treat asylum seekers appropriately, even though a report says corrupt officials have forced refugees into prostitution and slavery... The two nations agreed to stronger cooperation to combat people smuggling. But a US State Department report released last month put ( Read more... )

Anne Donovan. Buddha Da.
Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. Before the Universe.
Lloyd Rose. The Algebra of Ice.

( Books bought and borrowed )

Currently giggling at my own rubbish jokes from Walking to Babylon c/o the online Disco Guide. Tch tch tch. Hee hee hee.

Only after all that fiddling about in Photoshop did I discover the atheist bus ad generator.

A seven year old interviews Richard Hammond.

KUDOS IS MINE

Go look at luluxa's Doctor-Master art. Now.

Behold ceefax-the-sane's Shark Attack 3 picspam!

And thanks to cowboyhd, behold Matt Smith in Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Do you know, I actually went and looked him up on the ( Read more... )

http://groups.google.com/group/talk.bizarre/msg/e1b37d0f68b9cb7e

"The Terrible Fate of Kate's Novels" by me (talk.bizarre, 12 October 2005 ( Read more... )

A thought-provoking rant worth the attention of my fellow fandom feminists: A Short Treatise On Why, Maybe, Women Writing Fanfic Prefer To Write Male Characters. [Sadly, this is now flocked due to wank.]

I've been reading a lot of XKCD. Here's what the Doctor is probably like in bed.

Walking to Babylon passes the Bechdel Test. Sweet ( Read more... )

Chicago TARDIS is utterly splendid - efficiently run and a ton of fun - and the organisers are taking excellent care of us. Laughing with other fans is the cure to that blinkered view of fandom that the Intersplat gives you: it's not all about bile and repetition, after all. The slash and sex panels were full of fresh ideas, and there was further ( Read more... )

First installment of drox's fic. It carries on from the end of hexacontium's fic, which is here. (See what I did there? :)

( Eighth Doctor, Fitz, and Benny )

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