A whole bunch of little things.

More on Benedict Cumberbatch in the Hobbit - Ian McKellan confirms it, but is all tease-y about what part he's playing. I've seen people posit both Bard and Smaug-in-mo-cap - I still think either is a bit of a waste of a clearly Elvish face, but who knows ( Read more... )

Storm
A short animated film of a ten minute Tim Minchin beat poem/science rant.

Naomi Novik's baby.
It's a cute baby. It's got a dragon.

Gneils blog today is particularly full of cool things.
Including the whole Wondercon Doctor Who panel with Badger Sterling apparently Crowley but not that Crowley Mark Sheppard and one of the directors which ( Read more... )

Ahahahahaha. Pirates of the Caribbean 4 trailer. Excuse me while I just glee all over everything.

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I only have three more days before I'm off work for Christmas. AHAHAHAHAHA hooray for failing to go on holiday ever. I have writing to do and some choir, but I do not have to get out of bed in the mornings. SO MUCH WIN.

So, Minecraft!

It has eaten my life in a quite inconvenient and yet fairly awesome way. Anybody else play it?

( It's a computer game I really like. You might like it too. Or not. But if you want to find out quite cheaply you should do so soon because it's getting more expensive in a week's time. )

Meant to post this yesterday and forgot, thanks to Cleolinda and @MYMHM and Weikang his/herself and Christopher Nolan and whoever made Arthur's suit and the Internet Fairy and...

The four Inception dream levels, played out in real time.

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Full of spoilers, obviously, although it if you haven't already seen it you probably don't care ( Read more... )

Oh LJ. Even I get that this is a facepalmy move. 1000 Dreamwidth coders just punched the air. Speaking of which, I has DW and I have finally got round to applying the footer code so you can actually tell, so, go me. I think I've got some invite codes, should anyone want to join me on this bandwagon to the dark side ( Read more... )

So I am definitely into the 'everything smells of the inside of my nose, which smells of Horrible' stage. Next up is being well, right?

For some reason I am reminded of this:

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A rather spectacular Amazonfail happened over the weekend. As usual, John Scalzi seems to have his finger on the wtf button here ( Read more... )

Who else wants to see Amanda Palmer blog about Lady Gaga and being a woman who makes art... through the medium of a ukelele song? Yeah, you know you do.

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The woman is a legend. That is all.

Oh goody. Two people in my office have come down with Swine Flu, including my boss. To be fair, they almost certainly got it from their many small children. But still, I shall be pissed off if I get it next week, while I'm on holiday ( Read more... )