from a conversation earlier today:

(2:38:05 PM) monred1: Rotsa Ruck ( Read more... )

me: http://bash.org/?921147
Altaz: Completely disagree.
He put the check in a place that would allow him to exploit it later in a quicker manner.
That's definitely caching.

even if I've not been posting much of it the past year or so. I need to revive more of the dormant themes of my past blogging ( Read more... )

Ganked gleefully from james-nicoll's LJ

Poll an idle brain is a scary thing...
you can either vote here or at the original.

After all, you can't celebrate Einstein's birthday without a science-themed cake (well, science-fiction, but who's counting?)


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...Would an artificial messiah in Frank Herbert's Dune be called the Ersatz Haderach?

Who says that museum directors can't be football fans?

The directors of the New Orleans and Indianapolis art museums spent the past several days talking trash to each other over twitter, agreeing to a loan of one masterwork from either city to the other's museum on victory.

Read the full story here.

Perhaps the single best summary of Pride and Prejudice, evar.

Go forth and snicker.

All this time I thought Chanukah was the festival of lights, not the festival of being lit.


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...time to try and explain the story of chanukkah, which, being the obscure holiday it is on the Jewish calendar, doesn't get much teaching time. But Randy Milholland did his best to explain in this vintage strip from his webcomic Something*Positive:


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