Some hotel in the UK has replaced the Bible with copies of Fifty Shades of Grey in their rooms. link It's obviously mostly a publicity stunt ( Read more... )

Now, I do love me some XKCD, but sometimes it becomes obvious the writer is a man. Take this for instance:


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From Overstock.com, where I am currently looking for area rugs.

Rubber shag carpeting.

I particularly like this line: "Add the smell and feel of real rubber to any room with this hand-woven rubber shag rug." That's a selling point?

Maybe this is carpeting for someone's S&M den?

Since malkatsheva hasn't updated her blog in a week or two, I am going to give a minicon report from last weekend.

malkatsheva Came up on Friday morning. She and I brought lunch from the awesome Thai restaurant to Shizu's house and had a good afternoon. Then we met swimtech at her office. We were early for our dinner reservations at Artisanal, so we went to a nearby shoe store ( Read more... )

Just stumbled across a promo blurb saying an author is "on a par with Terry Goodkind and Robert Jordan."

Now, it is in fact intended as a compliment in the review, and is used that way in the promo blurb. But is it wrong of me that I wondered if it was originally intended as a negative?