Francophobia
Webmaster Will, source of approximately 75% of all cool URLs, points to a cute Christian Science Monitor article titled "English...
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Weather and housing
Heh. Bay Area guy sends Madison-area weather report to Madison-area brother ("Temperatures falling to near Zero late tonight will Combine...
Creeps in this petty pace
Eep. It's now only 11 days 'til my birthday, and I haven't decided yet where, when, or whether I'm having...
Wanton slaughter of darlings
Sometime in February, I was talking about my workshop with someone, and about the fact that I haven't submitted a...
Words easily confused #6
Only one item this time, but it's a remarkably common one: lightning and lightening. I suppose this should really go...
Levels of diction
Yet another in the long list of entries I've been meaning to write for a while now. Probably obvious, but...
Forced growth?
Almost every sf story that involves cloning includes the notion that clone bodies can be grown at an accelerated rate....
Found poetry
We use Nedstat to track page views (more or less) of SH's contents page. One thing Nedstat provides is a...
Late to bed and early to rise
("Why so surly, Ben?" "Well, you know, surly to bed and surly to rise. . . ." Can't remember who wrote that. Maybe...
Windling departure
I meant to post this last night, but got sidetracked. By now, probably everyone who might be interested already knows,...
Susan: 1; Exam: 0
Me: Susan passed her exam today! [Am v. talented—have learned to speak in hyperlinks! Go me!] Her: Remind me, what...
More songs about rocket ships
Pete Seeger's Children's Concert at Town Hall (1963) had a bunch of transportation-related songs, at the end of which he...