17776 has concluded as of today, and you should all read it. I had seen people talking about it over the past few days and I thought, "Meh, why would I want to read a story about football?" (I do have occasional positive feelings about football but not enough to sustain an entire story.) It's... not so much about football as it is about why humans ( Read more... )

I did not read anything I was supposed to read today (though I did read unrelated awesome comics), I did not write anything at all, I did receive stupid scary health insurance paperwork (boo) and a copy of the Iron Age graphic novel (yay; this is the one where Tony timetravels and hits on himself).

I spent like an hour watching videos of a red-hot ( Read more... )

I have three, three things to post! Ha! Ha! Ha! (You must read that sentence in the voice of The Count from Sesame Street.)

1. Today's xkcd comic is awesome if you are into lists of Wikipedia article titles that can be sung to the tune of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon theme song. I am! (Trochaic tetrameter = the best meter.)

2. Secrets ( Read more... )

On the off chance that I am not, in fact, the last person to know about this: Until March 5, all Cambridge Journals content published in 2012 will be available for free.

I think you know what you must do.

You have to register an account, but that's it. I haven't tried it myself yet, but
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In case you do not keep up with Apple Computer news, they have announced OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Yes, already. (Apparently when they get to 10, they plan to just keep going.) The nifty thing, in my opinion, about the proposed feature list is that iChat (which I never use anyway) is replaced with Messages, which will allow Mac users to send ( Read more... )

Star Wars Uncut. A bunch of fans split the movie into 15-second chunks and invited people to film their own version, and then stuck them all together.

It is awesome.

[ETA: YouTube link here. So far my favorite bit is the bit where they're all cats ( Read more... )

lysimache finally got me to watch Elisabeth this evening, this being her current favorite musical in the world. She just now got the DVD. The DVD is in German and has no subtitles in any language (except, weirdly, for the special features), and even though the musical is now in apparently seven languages, they are not seven languages I know. lysimache was nice ( Read more... )

It looks like Eagle DVD reviews are coming out, and they are frustratingly vague as to the extras:

"Alternate Ending" (4:39) offers a different resolution for the titular prize, while presenting a slightly less confident conclusion for Marcus and Esca ( Read more... )

Vindolanda! Everyone likes the Vindolanda tablets, right? Full of valuable Roman British daily/military life information and, um, that woman who signed her name to that invitation, which is really exciting because women don't write things. I guess. Anyway. So after reading an article on Vindolanda a couple days ago that, you know, tries to tell fun ( Read more... )

Apparently people want to podfic my Eagle fic lately. Squee. So, um, in case anyone would like to listen to someone else reading some words wot I wrote, please enjoy the following links:

So yesterday,
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