Also, I have never agreed more with an internet designation. Hideaki Akaiwa and his...yeah, you're going to have to read this yourself, to see why he is the badass of the week. Actually the month. Or the year.

Had a really, really horrific nightmare last night - combined elements of Echo Bazaar, Gen Con and cross country skiing and oddly a small earthquake, which sounds banal or weird enough, but doesn't give the flavor of the nightmarish stuff when that started happening....

...and then woke up to the news of Japan's 8.9 earthquake and tsunami.I used ( Read more... )

Japan's New First Lady Not From Venus, Was Only Visiting.

If you hate the New York Times, the Telegraph also reports on the story here.

I sincerely hope this signals a push for more space exploration. Even if some of us have apparently already done more than I thought we had.

The problem with the "Ten Things I've Done That You Probably Haven't Meme" is that either you haven't done ten things, or you've done many, many things that other people haven't done, in which case most of them are either a) stories you wish people would forget about or b) stories that people have already heard. But, by special request, here is ( Read more... )