In American dating system today is Pi day and this year it's special as it and infinitesimally short moment of actually reaching the irrational number if account for time of the day so 3/24/25 9:26:53.58979323846... all the way to infinity

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Or just celebrate Tau

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I might be the only one but I really liked Galavant. I laughed and generally enjoyed myself.

[Spoiler (click to open)]I loved Madalena choosing power and wealth and then terrorizing the king who kidnapped her. The whole thing with her cheating on him, constantly comparing him to Galavant and making him obey her every whim was priceless. Richard picked her for the looks ( Read more... )

Intelligent Life magazine has asked 7 writers, including Philip Pullman, "Does life have a meaning?". My answer has always been "Generally 'no' but you can make up one for yourself" and also "Why do you think it should?" Or you know "42".

The Future Library project plans to plant 1,000 trees and then get 100 writers to write something that will ( Read more... )

I have long weekend now and we suddenly have all the summer weather this summer was missing so far (it's humid and hot and it is to be even hotter - up to 36oC on Tuesday) so I'm wasting my time this weekend on shopping, swimming and cat videos. I caught up on Simon's Cat today - I have tendency to binge watch channels and then forget them for a ( Read more... )

There is some pretty awesome SF on TV right now. I love Person of Interest, Continuum and Orphan Black for all the brainy themes that hit some of my obsessions pretty hard (sentience, personhood and grey morality) and Agents of SHIELD turned out pretty fun in the end but there is one aspect severly lacking in all of these. Space. I miss my space ( Read more... )

It's April already and traditionally the best part is to look through all the news.

Tor spoils it all for you. They have all the endings to allimportant SF&F books. Now you no longer need to read anything. Except that article obviously.

The Mary Sue has turned into The Maru Sue. Now it's going to be entirely devoted to the unhealthy obsession ( Read more... )

The details of the decades long feud between Miss Piggy and Joan Rivers. With cake throwing. I know it's all for the money but I can't help loving the whole Muppets' marketing machine. It's probably because I like seeing all those people pretending Muppets are real (because I do too). Just like in the movies.

The nerdist has some has some spoilers ( Read more... )

I have been so busy recently I didn't realise that it is time for IgNobels already. They were awarded today and I must say that I am in awe. I wouldn't even think about trying to investigate most of these but I now want someone to test if Usain Bolt could run on water on the Moon. I'm also wondering what you feel when large chunk of your life is ( Read more... )

I was to write something interesting and coherent but I got distracted by this list of most amazing cat gifs. Ignore the title - and just watch your brain turning into awww.

For the rest of you you can get suitably annoyed by Americans appropriating even the hurricanes for their internal politics

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And the victim blaming among zombies

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on your own ( Read more... )

Due to an error in the ebook version George R. R. Martin - A Feast for Crows was randomly inserted into the text of the novel. Internet as always found a way to make it into meme.

Steven Erikson is going to answer questions about Toll the Hounds on tor.com - he does that after they finish reread of each of the books. I can't wait for The Crippled ( Read more... )