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Comic-Con vs. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church.

Awesome.

I don't understand the 'Magnets' protest sign, though. Is there some connection between Fred Phelps and the juggalos that I am unaware of?

90 percent of particles in the universe are hydrogen, and the other 10 percent are helium. Everything else, including 6 million billion billion kilograms of Earth, is a cosmic rounding error.
-Sam Kean, in The Disappearing SpoonSam, it's even worse than that. Most matter in the universe isn't even hydrogen or helium, it's dark matter, whatever the ( Read more... )

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Last night I saw a patient who was pistol-whipped. Haven't seen one of those in a while ( Read more... )

Department of Words I Did Not Know

bijou \BEE-zhoo\, adjective ( Read more... )

Had a good crit session tonight with the Nameless Crit Group, soon to be the Bodiless Crit Group. Subject of interrogation was the first quarter or so of Invisible House, filomancer's far future spacefaring SF novel. (A section of the novel titled "Pelago" appeared as a novella in Asimov's in January, two years ago.) Also in attendance: oracne and pointoforiginWe all agreed ( Read more... )

Department of Improved Endings

I have been reading YA, because I seem to be writing YA.

Having finished The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, I don't understand why [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER] the girls can't bring back Bailey. I mean, they have a magic garment, for crying out loud, they have a sacred temple, and a ceremony. What do they think ( Read more... )

via nephele:

Kelly Link's thoughts about how to get ideas for stories. With stuff from Kate Wilhelm and Raymond Carver.Kate Wilhelm...suggests that every writer indirectly collaborates with her subconscious -- she calls this collaborator your Silent Partner -- who supplies you with ideas that you then turn into stories ( Read more... )

Okay, have you heard this one yet? It's been proposed that the best way to stop the oil flow in the Gulf is to use a nuclear bomb ( Read more... )