A Calendar of TalesI know there are a few Neil Gaiman fans on my flist, but this is fun/quirky even if you're not. Apparently, he asked his twitter followers a question for every month of the year (like "Why is January so dangerous?"), then used the responses to write short flashfics, which were then illustrated by deviantART users. So there are ( Read more... )

All that chatter in my last post about creating your own movies with CGI reminded me of this site. It's obviously pretty cartoonish - and potentially objectionable material (sex/nudity/violence/etc) isn't allowed - but it still looks like a heap of fun. And for extra fun, there's already a Star Trek channel. Awesome.

Seen on a holiday shopping trip at a place that sells calendars: a quiet, vaguely geeky, guy lurking behind me as I wrapped my mitts around next year's Original Star Trek calendar. The guy waits until I've turned away, reaches out and grabs the one remaining copy of the Trek calendar, then damn near sprints (without appearing to) to the counter to ( Read more... )