More parkour
I coulda sworn that I posted at some point about parkour, the French sport/skill involving urban running, jumping, climbing, and...
Archive for Links
Items: Art
Some assorted links, under the very broad heading of "art": Google recently bought the company that makes SketchUp, an application...
On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers
A couple of weeks ago, there was a totally fabulous talk at Google: Dr. Cornelia Brunner of the Center for...
Items: Video
Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some...
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...
R.I.P., Robert Sheckley
Most of you who would care know by now that sf author Robert Sheckley died a week ago. It's been...
Cuteness storm
Aaron pointed us to Cute Overload. It seems to be a mix of genuinely cute stuff and kind of creepy...
Trailblazers
These items aren't quite coherently connected, but they felt like they made a certain amount of sense together. There's a...
Items: Hodgepodge
Okay, I've run out of themes. Here's everything else. Article titled "The Myth of the Black Irish: Spanish Syntagonism and...
Items: Words and names
Glesga Glossary. This would've come in handy during WorldCon. List of Yiddish Words and Expressions. See also Yiddish with...
Items: Technology and computers
Heavier-than-air military airship: the Walrus. See also the SkyCat. Project Gutenberg now has free audiobooks, apparently including some read...
Items: Sad news from all over
This is probably all old news by now, but I wanted to at least note it all in passing. I...