In which Tom Baker and Lalla Ward cheer me up
I was in a weird mood and exhausted all day today. I cheered up a bit over dinner, but was...
Coraline
We went to see Coraline tonight. I probably wouldn't have gotten around to it this weekend on my own, but...
Coraline and Burton
I know at least two people who thought that the Coraline movie was directed by Tim Burton; it's an easy...
Replacing MT Blogroll
When Movable Type 4 came out, the author of the popular MT Blogroll plugin wrote a new plugin called LinkRoller,...
Darths and Droids
Back in 2006, a guy named Shamus Young posted a couple of strips of a photonovel-style webcomic with the following...
Valentine abstraction
Aaron pointed to some art pages by Christoph Niemann, including a nice bit about turning classic artwork into a bathroom-tile...
Imminent Bay Area convention: Potlatch
Potlatch will be held in Sunnyvale this year, and it's coming up fast: it starts three weeks from now. For...
This week’s SH fiction: “This Must Be the Place”
This week at Strange Horizons: "This Must Be the Place," by Elliott Bangs--a story of love, time travel, and music:...
What would your younger self think of you?
If some younger version of you could see you now, what aspects of your current self would they be unhappy...
Give me that old science fiction
I've been reading (well, mostly skimming) the stories in The Best of Lester del Rey, and just found this line: "War...
Lab-grown diamonds in rings
Back in 2003, I posted an entry pointing to a Wired article about synthetic diamonds. (I also linked in passing...
Review: Inkheart (book)
I saw a preview for the forthcoming Inkheart movie a few months back, and it looked like fun--and it appeared...