Austrian political “porn” billboards
The Times Online reports that the Austrian government is sponsoring an art project featuring sexually explicit political posters: specifically, there's...
Song of Childe Roland Ballads
One of the problems with getting a lot of your history from fantasy novels is that it's easy to conflate...
Word-processor paragraphing
I've had occasion recently to see a couple of authors' word-processor documents, and I've noticed that some authors are using...
Bouncy ball-droppy soundy pingy thing
Scott introduced me to a nifty software toy: BallDroppings, available for Mac, Windows, and mobile phones, plus a Java version....
Comments on comments
Someone talking about blogs recently said something like "It's not the entries, it's the conversation." I feel like I've been...
(Some of my) favorite novels read in 2005
My pleasure-reading this year has been kinda haphazard. I've read probably a dozen novels (not counting re-reading the Narnia books...
Social
Thursday was my last day of work for the year; we get some holidays and I'm taking some vacation days....
Hugo season
Just got a Hugo nominating ballot from the 2005 WorldCon, which surprises me because there's no Hugo nominating ballot available...
Donations
I just finished my end-of-year donations; not quite as last-minute as usual. In case anyone's interested, here are some of...
L’Imperatrice, c’est moi
I'm doing my annual donations (more on that later, no doubt), and just got to Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres....
Hitherby
Back in May, I posted some links to a few entries at Hitherby Dragons. I still haven't gone back to...
Outline of Narnian history, plus nitpicking
I'm continuing to re-read the Narnia books. Will have more to say about that sooner or later, but for now,...