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I am a wee bit buried in grading my college class right now, but I thought I'd pass on this sad bit of news of one of my favorite authors:

Iain Banks has terminal cancer

His announcment

Just because it's so amazing:

Milky Way

Pride and Prejudice is being reworked as a you tube diary, and its quite good fun.

Personally, I think the Enigma machine to be utterly, totally cool (and live in hope of finding one labelled "typewriter" at a garage sale). In the meantime, you can make one out of paper (thanks to Boing Boing for finding this): Make a paper Enigma

in just 14 minutes! The Duel at Blood Creek

Way back in December, we saw part of a lunar eclipse here, so, a couple of photos, now that I've gotten around to posting them:


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pegkerr noted this, but my flist may want to read vichan.

I like buying some stuff second-hand. Sometimes, just sometimes, the deal is so amazing, I get get to do a victory dance ( Read more... )

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