This weekend we'll be heading to Columbus for Marcon. Every year at Marcon I end up buying a pile of books, usually stuff that's hard to find locally, and often rare or out of print stuff. Last year's take included my first real effort to get into graphic novels beyond Sandman.

( And also Elric... )

So, all those people who backed up their livejournals when they heard about the sale to Six Apart may have had the right idea after all, even if it was for the wrong reason.
Slashdot had some comments on the LJ outage, including some Informative comments from LJ admins bradfitz and denisep/rahaeli. My favorite comment there (among many funny ones):A great disturbance ( Read more... )

Every geek who knows what the title refers to will appreciate this song by Jonathan Coulton called "Mandelbrot Set".

It's better if you listen before reading the lyrics, but somehow the line that really cracked me up was "You're one badass fucking fractal ( Read more... )

Remember when I mentioned that there would be a lawsuit about the Ohio vote?

Now you can go read the 93-page lawsuit, and the related motion for injunction against the Electors submitting their votes.
Or go read a summary at dKos ( Read more... )

It's impossible to keep any flat space in my study free of papers for longer than a few days. At times it gets ridiculous ( Read more... )

Recently our local pagan group has had quite a bit of discord. In their efforts to bring harmony, some in the group equated that discord to chaos, and equated chaos with evil. The following is based on my response to those opinions. I'm interested in what others think of these things. ( Read more... )