Can’t fight Mother Nature
A hurricane FAQ (from the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) explains why we can't use nukes to stop hurricanes ('cause,...
Partial series
I've been seeing grammatical constructions like this a lot lately (examples made up by me), both in fiction and elsewhere:...
Two unrelated tidbits
According to a Voice of America article, Condoleezza Rice sez the administration never said Saddam Hussein was involved in the...
Gay penguins
Cute little article from Columbia News Service about gay penguins at the New York Aquarium. The best thing, though, is...
Eyebenders
More excellent optical illusions from a Japanese site that appears to specialize in them, along the same lines as an...
Science determines personality
Sometimes the results of allegedly scientific studies end up sounding about as valid and relevant as web-based personality quizzes. For...
Which “Other City” Should You Live In?
In case you don't have a copy of The Book of All Cities, there's now a quiz that allows you...
MIT students beat Vegas at blackjack
Interesting story: "throughout the 1990s," a rotating group of MIT students took regular trips to Vegas, where they used expert...
Go me!
I confess to feeling a little smug at the moment, having just written a 5000-word story in a little over...
Fiction and fiction
Finished my story for workshop and handed that in. Then noticed that the deadline for Mary Anne's Best of Blowfish...
More time flying
I don't really know what's happened to the past two weeks. I've been sitting around at home, not going out...
Two years
I started this journal exactly two years ago (give or take a couple hours). Time flies. During that time, I've...