yuletide has seen even more fics than ever written this year (2037!), and out of the acout 150 of them that I've read these are my recommendations. The story written for me comes first on the list, of course, the rest are alphabetic by fandom….

• Random. A Thoughtful King (Roger Zelazny - Chronicles of Amber series) What if?
• ( 31 other recs, in 13 fandoms )

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Recently I've added leninology_feed to my fiends list. I'm not too sure how to discount for it's biases, but it provides an interesting link to news stories that I hadn't seen.

Maybe I should start reading Pravda again, too...

In this article Bruce Schneier (renound security savant) investigates Securty aspects of the recent Harry Potter book (warning: spoilers).

Oh, dear.

Ken MacLeod really rips into Thursday's terrorists. But it reads to me more like the ravings of someone insecure than actual convinced argument.

Some of you might appreciate this.

To anyone confused about the date of the Battle of the Boyne, I wrote a monograph on this subject last year.