Must Read: The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life Read 6 of the 20; added the rest to GoodReads (except for the 2 that weren’t in GoodReads); not sure about “life-changing” but at least 5 of the 6 I have already read were very very good. (tags: scifi literature) TED 2008: Humans […]
How to recreate Silverback’s Parallax at Vitamin Features (via JH) (tags: css webdev design)
nintendo8.com “play Nintendo 8-bit games online (no download required)” — but since when was Ducktales 2 a Top 100 game? (tags: games todo) 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA HDD Stage Rack @ GeekStuff4U.com (via LifeHacker): this is an awesome idea — a “dock” for your “otherwise internal” hard drives (tags: geek hardware) Casual cryptography for web […]
The most excellent folks at Magic Hat gave me a shout out in their Mardi Gras wrap-up blog post today: A special thanks to Rob Friesel over at found drama for letting us use one of his 2007 Mardi Gras photos for our official site. Check out the great photos he took this year. You’re […]
Read Wired’s piece on the 37signals guys last night and then saw it again this morning via DF. Haven’t looked around too much to see what others are saying but the DF emphasis seems to be on “ginned-up conflict” vs. doubled revenue in ’07. Coming away from the article last night, I find myself with […]
I would suggest, dear reader, that when considering Consider the Lobster , that you consider it in the same light as David Foster Wallace’s collection A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again 1. Use that book as your frame of reference for style and content and you can place this collection firmly into the […]
More than slightly b’gocked by the following: While exploring Amazon.com’s MP3 offerings today, I came across something rather unexpected. When I found In Rainbows, the sidebar suggested that I might also enjoy this collection of lullaby renditions of familiar Radiohead songs. ??? A. & I checked out a few samples. And I was surprised that […]
Following up on my first X-Files viewing post: Conduit. Season one, episode four. Back to the central alien theme; Duchovny nails Mulder and brings out the combination of quirk and moroseness that is this character’s hallmark. On the DVD series’ first disc, this is by far the best episode thus far. It has nuanced variations […]
Got a better spot than last year, at least as far as pictures go. Speaking of which: here are the rest of the Mardi Gras pictures. (I think that this one is by far the best.) A lot of Obama supporters and stickers out there in the crowd today. Let’s hope that bodes well for […]
Steps Magazine: Trains and Plants via B^2 (tags: biology plants science genetics research essay) CONTEST: Tell Us Your New Weird Story, Win Tons of Cool Stuff! via Alana: The Bus Pass story. All the way… (tags: writing todo) The Internet Review of Science Fiction via Alana (tags: fiction scifi magazine writing todo) Daily Kos: I […]