Chatroulette Guy does Miley Cyrus and Mariah Carey
First there was Call Me Maybe (3-min video). This guy Stephen Kardynal went on Chatroulette (the site where you can...
Neat sliding-number-puzzle games
There's a nifty iOS game called Threes, in which you slide numbered tiles around on a board and combine them...
Nine years
My father was killed nine years ago today. This year I've been pretty much okay. I noticed the impending anniversary...
Awesome lesbian-protagonists comic: Supercakes
Mary Anne posted a link earlier to an awesome and charming and funny and sweet and thoroughly lovely 12-page comics...
Sturgeon’s “Granny Won’t Knit”
In my Complete Sturgeon reading, I just read his 1954 story “Granny Won't Knit.” Spoilers and an entertaining anecdote follow....
Nebula nominees!
SFWA has announced this year's Nebula nominees, and I'm very pleased with them. Congratulations to all the nominees! (And double...
Assorted updates
I feel like I haven't posted a general life update here in ages. Partly that's because I have half a...
Diversity ads
I feel like there's been an amazing spate of pro-diversity advertising in the past week. Some links: A new Cheerios...
Some pros and cons of Glass
Mat Honan wore Google Glass for much of 2013; in an article for Wired, he talks about what it's like...
When the Internet of Things fails
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
Astonishing balancing performance
I'm going to recommend a video in a minute. But first, some backstory: Kam and I went to see Cirque...
Alternatives to Movable Type and WordPress?
I've been using Movable Type for my own blog since 2005, but have grown increasingly dissatisfied with it of late....