Insufficient linkspam (no more for now, as I'm actually working this week):

Here is a lovely Pacific Rim vid by Chaila.

Any pitbull-loving SPN fans will get special enjoyment out of this video. Heh.

I've done enough running to recognize the truth of this essay on the misdesigned human running apparatus.People who like fantasy with good prose, ( Read more... )

... just sleeping. And running. And looking for work. And dog-sitting. And so forth.

Some of these links are a little dated, but if I don't post them now they won't get posted at all.

Connie Britton is even more awesome than you thought. She's teamed up with Planned Parenthood to offer a What Would Tami Taylor Do? t-shirt to fund PP programs ( Read more... )

I've never made a rhubarb pie, but these rhubarb bars look pretty awesome. (Although who has a 9x5" baking dish? What an odd size!)

I'm also tempted by this salad recipe, which looks pretty simple and tasty.

Alyson Walsh from That's Not My Age on perfecting your wardrobe. Not sure I agree with all of it; it's interesting to see that I rarely ( Read more... )

Yikes, several days worth of links here.

Awww, this animated short is just ridiculously wonderful. Dogs and their people, really.

Clay Shirky on the future of publishing.

The Big Picture focuses on growing tea in England.

This website has beautifully-photographed portraits of women with gray hair. Gorgeous and inspirational ( Read more... )

By way of Long Form: A profile of the 20th century's greatest mountaineer, Reinhold Messner.

By way of BoingBoing: Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain during WWII. Coolness, and probably a good research tool.

I love William Langewiesche's writing (if only I could remember how to spell his name!), so I'll have to make time to read ( Read more... )

The Economist has a nice memorial for Helen Gurley Brown, long-time editor of Cosmo and author of Sex and the Single Girl.

The New Republic has an appreciation of I Capture the Castle, which I need to reread at some point. Especially since I've been pushing Michelle Cooper's Montmaray novels at people with the argument that they're like I Capture ( Read more... )

The Secret Service has been chasing $40m in Double Eagles for seventy years.

Vintage Space has a carnival of Spaaaaace!

Grantland has an oral history of the Malice in the Palace, that epic bench-clearing brawl involving NBA players and fans.

These photos of underwater dogs must be seen to be appreciated. Amazing! My favorite is the Golden with ( Read more... )

If you're an SF/fantasy fan, I can pretty much guarantee you'll find something you like up for sale at the Con or Bust auction! Check it out, there are all sorts of offers, including signed first editions and no end of other cool things. And of course the money goes to a worthy cause ( Read more... )

Huh. Did we know Matt Ruff has a new novel out? I did not. And it's a wacky alternate-universe novel with lots of politics in it. I have to say, Ruff may be hard to pin down, but he's never repeated himself.

Did you know A Wrinkle in Time is 50 years old this year? That blue cover is the edition I originally read, when I was in 5th grade ( Read more... )

When you get out of the habit of posting, it's hard to post.

Um, y'all might really enjoy this short animated film.In other news, I got to spend much of yesterday bonding with beautiful golden retrievers, and you know? There may not be a sweeter dog on the planet. I love TNG and her marvelous radar-dish ears, but goldens are the pets of my heart ( Read more... )