While browsing Amazon recently, I found a Barbara Hambly book I'd previously been unaware of called "Fendragon". Being a major Hambly fan, I ordered it in excitement and it finally turned up today. Yay! more »
This word initially appeared -- as far as I can tell -- in a comment on a blog posting about the effect of being Digged (dugged?) and Slashdotted and having one's website brought down under the awesome load of a fully armed and operational battlenet.… more »
This one's courtesy of Neil Gaiman's blog, er, Journal:
Obviously I'm still English. If I'd become American I would have stopped drinking coffee.
Ouch. more »
Hmmm. And what else have the Stelmach Tories been keeping from us?
And I love the subheading that the spoilsports at NBC thoughtfully provide:
Some Believe Images Are Just Reflection From Window
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I don't normally bother linking to case mods, even when they're rather cool, mostly because, well, they're just case mods.
This though, this is cool. I always wanted a ][gs but they weren't really available where I was living at the time. more »
Periodically you see a gizmo that initially leaves you thinking "Well, that's daft" but a few minutes later it becomes "Hmmmm....".
Get off my keyboard, Pumpkin. Please.
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Penn & Teller do some odd stuff, but this one is particularly strange even for them. Keep an eye out for the camera man in the hazmat suit...
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From one of the commenters:
i made one of these at a family reunion about 18 months ago. kids loved it, adults were seriously grossed out and segregated this dessert from the others.
Yeah.
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"Ready, Aye, Ready" was a slogan used by Canadian politicians to indicate Canada's willingness to assist the British Empire in any conflict. It remains in use as a motto for some of the Canadian military. It has almost nothing to do with the content of this blog.