I've been reading a book called The Impact of Inequality, by Richard Wilkinson. And because it's been slightly blowing my mind, I thought I'd bring it up here, because... well ( Read more... )

1. Everyone has probably already seen this, but: Dr Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog really is hilarious and adorable. I was enjoying it, and then Nathan Fillion turned up as and jumped on things and started singing and it became AWESOME. (You know the bit in one of the Firefly commentaries where Joss does his little singing impression of Nathan, all " ( Read more... )

Two news stories I've been thinking about a lot, lately:

1. The Associated Press is trying to make it illegal for blog posts to quote more than five words from their stories without paying them: oh, and even then, you wouldn't be allowed to criticize them.

2. Sending people physical objects through the internet just got a whole lot nearer. ( Read more... )