Crazy link of the day: the mimic octopus. I'm a little scared of anything that smart that isn't human.

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The NPR Sci-Fi/Fantasy list. Less because it's a good list (it isn't) and more for lack of much better to do.

( 100 books, with commentary )

Meme from all over:

If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach. -- Alfred Hitchcock, 1899 - 1980

If I wrote fic/drew art/vidded/folded origami/etc today, the readers/viewers would immediately be looking for... what?

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This is happening in a few weeks. I'm tempted to go--hey, free admission!--but ( Read more... )

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This needs to happen somehow on my TV. (Dunno who the guy in the picture is, but Dana Delany and Mary McDonnell sharing a scene needs to happen. Also, is it just me, or do they resemble each other to the point where they could easily play sisters?)

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Questions from pezprez:

1. What's YOUR favorite SF/F trope? Cause now I have to ask.Huge, galaxy- ( Read more... )

Er. Um. I sort of forgot I had the first season of Burn Notice in my Netflix queue, and now that I've watched the first three episodes, I think I may be juuuuuuuust a bit addicted. Like, not to the point where the speed of Netflix isn't enough for me, and not (yet) to the point where I want to hunt down fic, but it's very funny, there's just ( Read more... )

To make up for spamming you with BUGS last time, here are some flowers. (Fair warning: most of them are me screwing around with the pre-sets on my camera, so there are several shots of the same primrose bed from the same angle in "Expressive" or "Pinhole Camera" or whatever mode.)

( Primroses and Gerber daisies )

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Y'all guessed a bit more than half of them. Not bad at all, considering some were quite obscure indeed. :)

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Unguessed lyrics from yesterday's meme:

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Meme from gamesiplay:

Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first line (or first and second line if it's completely impossible) from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. I was doing okay with this, and then I ran into a string of them where the title was in the first line, and got tired of skipping them, so I ( Read more... )