After all the drama yesterday, it's very nice to serve up some very cute Arctic fox cubs. They are good for one's blood pressure.

Bruce Schneier has some very creative commenters:
A is for anthrax, deadly and white.
B is for burglars who break in at night.
C is for cars that have minds of their own
and accelerate rapidly in a school zone.So ( Read more... )

Okay, so I haven't watched LOST since season 2. But last night was the finale: where can I go for a brief and pithy summing-up of who lived, who died, and What It All Meant?

TNC has a guest post by one of his commenters on adapting books to film.

Might be worth bookmarking: Neal Stephenson's joint project with Greg Bear & others. I have no idea ( Read more... )

You know, I'm getting kind of impressed by the NPR pop-culture blog Monkey See. Because, sure, it's NPR, which to me connotes mainstream media that prides itself on Not Being Fox or CNN, but instead of pandering to the hysterical right (or the merely hysterical), panders to the "educated elite" without actually being a particularly good source of ( Read more... )

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,000 year-old shipwreck off the southwest coast of England. Fascinating!

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By way of Bruce Scheier: Debit card information being skimmed from inside gas station pumps. You can't see the skimmer at all, even if you knew what to look for. Oy!

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Noted for later: seperis has written 110K words of ST: Reboot, apparently ( Read more... )