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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...)

Limerick

Earlier, Twig said something like, "What did I do with the cup?" And I had a flashback, as often happens... (More...)

Today's new Google features

Some interesting new time-related features from Google today: Google Wake Up Kit--have trouble waking up? This new Google Calendar feature... (More...)

News and notes from all over

Time for me to close some browser windows, by posting some items with no particular theme. The Year in Newsbreaks:... (More...)

Here Comes Another Bubble

Cute and entertaining music video: "Here Comes Another Bubble" (as in tech bubble), by the a cappella group The Richter... (More...)

Hamms OK with gays

A couple weeks ago, I happened across a brief article from 2004 at outsports.com, about Olympic athlete brothers Paul and... (More...)

Assorted parenting commentary

A few weeks back, I happened across an excerpt from Mommies Who Drink, by Brett Paesel. My favorite bit is... (More...)

Dr. Who church service

"[St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff] is to host a Doctor Who-themed communion service aimed at young people. [The church]... (More...)

Two commercials

I was going to put the first of these in my much-neglected "Links of Interest" section on my journal's main... (More...)

dign 2 china brb

I have a lot to do tonight, but figured I'd do a little websurfing while having a late dinner. David... (More...)

Funny spam

Got an amusing piece of spam this morning--though I imagine it's not so amusing to people who don't know much... (More...)

Safeword: "Palomino"

Saturday Night Live did a sketch recently showing a message from "Nancy Pelosi" (played by Kristin Wiig), about "San Francisco... (More...)

Greek suffix meets Lingua Terra

Sometimes people complain that the word polyamory is a mix of Latin and Greek roots. I've been known to make... (More...)

Kawaii!

An assortment of mostly cute photos, mostly of animals: JustALittleGuy, which is sort of like Cute Overload except that the... (More...)

Ninja

So enough about pirates. As I was walking back to my desk this evening, I saw a guy dressed somewhat... (More...)

Pirates

Arr, me hearties! Today was, of course, Talk Like a Pirate Day, as I'm sure you all knew. One of... (More...)

Motivational posters

Okay, so you all know those motivational posters, where they put a big photo on a black background with some... (More...)

Hugo voting deadline impends

The deadline for submitting a Hugo and Campbell Award ballot is Monday, 31 July. As always, I encourage those of... (More...)

Video roundup, part 2

Here's the promised second set of videos. If you're short on time, skip down to the cute pet videos at... (More...)

Video roundup, part 1

It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a... (More...)

Things to do on dates

A friend recently pointed me to a webcomic called xkcd. (In the same email, she asked how I was doing,... (More...)

Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly

Back around the end of March, I bought Willie Nelson's recording of the catchy gay cowboy song "Cowboys Are Frequently... (More...)

Jailbreak

Elliott M. sent out the following particularly silly email long ago; for some reason I had occasion to quote it... (More...)

How I explained infodumps and saved humanity

"And now," Dr. Zurückgeschichte said, "please explain to me how an infodump works." "But why would I have to explain... (More...)

Five-minute summaries

Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute "Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries" comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,... (More...)

Items: Art

Some assorted links, under the very broad heading of "art": Google recently bought the company that makes SketchUp, an application... (More...)

Slashdot, cuteness, etc.

Meanwhile, in perhaps-related news, Slashdot has discovered Cute Overload. And Slashdot itself has decided on an all-pink look, to appeal... (More...)

Contextual dating and ads on the moon

Two items just in: First, Google to advertise on the moon, a vnunet.com article by one Arif Pollo, published today.... (More...)

Items: Video

Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some... (More...)

Earworm: Somewhere That's Green

The other day the song "Somewhere That's Green" (from Little Shop of Horrors, though I have the movie soundtrack rather... (More...)

Africa, the Other, and sf

Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's... (More...)

Lockpick Pornography: The Novel

I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first... (More...)

Star Wars misconceptions

While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about... (More...)

California Winter: The Album

It occurred to me Sunday morning, after being awakened by a windstorm that was related to the flooding that's happening... (More...)

Curses

Luke H. just pointed to a New Yorker humor piece from mid-2004, "New Details Surface," by Paul Simms, that made... (More...)

Hitherby

Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to... (More...)

Separated at birth?

I truly do not have any sort of political agenda here. I was just struck by what seems to me... (More...)

Ballot measure drinking game

I started this as a postscript to the previous entry, but I got a little carried away and decided to... (More...)

Things that have made me laugh this morning

The morning's just barely begun, and already two things have made me laugh: (More...)

Spam notes

Noted in passing: got spam this morning from one Ereshkigal Browne. Who knew that the goddess of the underworld had... (More...)

Knock knock

Mary Anne told me this knock-knock joke recently, and it instantly became my favorite knock-knock joke: Ralph: Knock knock. Sally:... (More...)

Short hair belongs to men

I was having dinner with a group of friends a couple months ago when I realized that, in a reversal... (More...)

Chocolate milk!

On Sunday evening, I finally remembered to tell the "chocolate milk!" joke: There are two penguins on an ice floe,... (More...)