Walmart Called - Your Christmas Photos Are ready - My eyes!!! Not exactly work-safe.

Mars lake 'much like early Earth' - The ancient lake environment found in Mars' Gale Crater could have supported microbes called chemolithoautotrophs - if they had been present. Remember when the question of whether there had ever been open water on Mars was ( Read more... )

The most beautiful death - Aldous Huxley's "most beautiful death" was described by his wife in a moving letter.

The “Copenhagen left” - A bicycle maneuver I have used without ever knowing it had a name. (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Heyday app is the anti-Facebook for the iPhone

Mercier 1937 Moto Chenille 350cc 1 cyl ohv - Wow is that weird. ( ( Read more... )

What An Amazing Dam. Wait… What’s That? Are Those…? No Way! - Yup. Goats. (Via David Goldman.)

Cats Recognize Their Owner’s Voice But Chose to Ignore It - Hahaha.

Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed

An Artificial Hand with Real Feelings - A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a ( Read more... )

Becoming attractions: A brief history of film trailers - (Via ( Read more... )

3 to 3: Orycon 2013 interview with Jay Lake - In which Camille Alexa interviews me.

The Church of the Brass Messiah - Hah!

Amazon to deliver by drone? Don't believe the hype - Jeff Bezos's 'plan' for drone deliveries is little more than a publicity stunt - timed for the biggest online shopping day of the year.

Compulsory Monogamy in The Hunger ( Read more... )

America's 15 best pizzas - Apizza Scholes here in Portland makes the list.

Could Sexual Frustration Lead To A Shorter Life?

Atheists sink to new depths of depravity! - It’s amazing how immoral the irreligious are without the external threat of eternal punishment to keep us in line. After all, no human being could possibly be a moral actor without ( Read more... )

Novelist Error Messages - Hahahah. (Thanks to Lisa Costello.)

Where writers get their ideas - Hahah.

6 Modern Playgrounds to Make Your Inner Child Lose Its Mind - Some weird stuff. Hah. (Via ( Read more... )

Today is Thanksgiving here in the United States. For the rest of you, I suppose it's just Thursday. But whether it's Thursday or Thanksgiving, this is as good a day as any for giving thanks ( Read more... )

Fate of next year's Sriracha supply to be decided by experts -

Weather could ground Macy’s parade balloons - How many days a year does a Macy’s balloon wrangler work, anyway?

Black hole with unexpectedly ‘elegant manners’ baffles astronomers - The discovery impacts the long search for evasive intermediate-mass black holes.

Elusive Higgs decay ( Read more... )

Milo Fowler is giving away a personalized copy of my new novella from Prime Books, Love in the Time of Metal and Flesh

Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional - Boy, do I have a lot to say about this. (Via Beverly Block.)

You, Me, and Every Word We Know - Ta-Nehisi Coates on the languages of labeling, in-groups ( Read more... )