Ikea: adventure and song
Over at The Morning News a few years ago, the Non-Expert provided a walkthrough of the IKEA adventure game: IKEA... (More...)
Over at The Morning News a few years ago, the Non-Expert provided a walkthrough of the IKEA adventure game: IKEA... (More...)
Earlier, Twig said something like, "What did I do with the cup?" And I had a flashback, as often happens... (More...)
Some interesting new time-related features from Google today: Google Wake Up Kit--have trouble waking up? This new Google Calendar feature... (More...)
Time for me to close some browser windows, by posting some items with no particular theme. The Year in Newsbreaks:... (More...)
Cute and entertaining music video: "Here Comes Another Bubble" (as in tech bubble), by the a cappella group The Richter... (More...)
A couple weeks ago, I happened across a brief article from 2004 at outsports.com, about Olympic athlete brothers Paul and... (More...)
A few weeks back, I happened across an excerpt from Mommies Who Drink, by Brett Paesel. My favorite bit is... (More...)
"[St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff] is to host a Doctor Who-themed communion service aimed at young people. [The church]... (More...)
I was going to put the first of these in my much-neglected "Links of Interest" section on my journal's main... (More...)
I have a lot to do tonight, but figured I'd do a little websurfing while having a late dinner. David... (More...)
Got an amusing piece of spam this morning--though I imagine it's not so amusing to people who don't know much... (More...)
Saturday Night Live did a sketch recently showing a message from "Nancy Pelosi" (played by Kristin Wiig), about "San Francisco... (More...)
Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make... (More...)
An assortment of mostly cute photos, mostly of animals: JustALittleGuy, which is sort of like Cute Overload except that the... (More...)
So enough about pirates. As I was walking back to my desk this evening, I saw a guy dressed somewhat... (More...)
Arr, me hearties! Today was, of course, Talk Like a Pirate Day, as I'm sure you all knew. One of... (More...)
Okay, so you all know those motivational posters, where they put a big photo on a black background with some... (More...)
The deadline for submitting a Hugo and Campbell Award ballot is Monday, 31 July. As always, I encourage those of... (More...)
Here's the promised second set of videos. If you're short on time, skip down to the cute pet videos at... (More...)
It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a... (More...)
A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,... (More...)
Back around the end of March, I bought Willie Nelson's recording of the catchy gay cowboy song "Cowboys Are Frequently... (More...)
Elliott M. sent out the following particularly silly email long ago; for some reason I had occasion to quote it... (More...)
"And now," Dr. Zurückgeschichte said, "please explain to me how an infodump works." "But why would I have to explain... (More...)
Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute "Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries" comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,... (More...)
Some assorted links, under the very broad heading of "art": Google recently bought the company that makes SketchUp, an application... (More...)
Meanwhile, in perhaps-related news, Slashdot has discovered Cute Overload. And Slashdot itself has decided on an all-pink look, to appeal... (More...)
Two items just in: First, Google to advertise on the moon, a vnunet.com article by one Arif Pollo, published today.... (More...)
Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some... (More...)
The other day the song "Somewhere That's Green" (from Little Shop of Horrors, though I have the movie soundtrack rather... (More...)
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's... (More...)
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first... (More...)
While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about... (More...)
It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that's happening... (More...)
Luke H. just pointed to a New Yorker humor piece from mid-2004, "New Details Surface," by Paul Simms, that made... (More...)
Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to... (More...)
I truly do not have any sort of political agenda here. I was just struck by what seems to me... (More...)
I started this as a postscript to the previous entry, but I got a little carried away and decided to... (More...)
The morning's just barely begun, and already two things have made me laugh: (More...)
Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had... (More...)
Mary Anne told me this knock-knock joke recently, and it instantly became my favorite knock-knock joke: Ralph: Knock knock. Sally:... (More...)
I was having dinner with a group of friends a couple months ago when I realized that, in a reversal... (More...)
On Sunday evening, I finally remembered to tell the "chocolate milk!" joke: There are two penguins on an ice floe,... (More...)