John Scalzi: The New Comprehensible, or, This is Not a Literary Manifesto, Thank God.
Now, let’s say that at this point, some writer out there is saying “Hey, I want to be part of this New Comprehensible movement in science fiction that I’ve heard so much about in the last four paragraphs,” and wanted advice on [...]
These were supposed to be thoughts on how I’d want to run an Amber game, but I didn’t get too far because of digressions into literary criticism.
First, we use just the first five books as our setting bible: Nine Princes in Amber, The Guns of Avalon, Sign of the Unicorn, The Hand of Oberon and [...]
Using your browser URL history to estimate gender - A widget that compares your browser history to the male/female ratios reported for 10 thousand “top” sites and makes a prediction of your gender. I got 60% female, probably because I just looked at Livejournal and Facebook. [via LMG].
Tarantinos mind(וידאו): איזה בחור פורטגזי מטלויזית הגברים ההונגרים חושב שהוא פיצח את הקוד של טארנטינו.
Dark Knight Shift: Why Batman Could Exist–But Not for Long: Scientific American - an Interview with a professor who wrote a book about it.
How many of us do you think could become a Batman?
If you found the percentage of billionaires and multiply that by the percentage of people who become Olympic decathletes, you could probably [...]
Autochromes - a set on Flickr.
From the portfolio of Jesse van Dijk, some pretty sketches of a vertical city in a volcano’s crater inside the sea. Lots of other fantastic landscapes in his gallery.
“Get Smart,” which we thought was a serious series. For our bag, it was not over the top to have a guy who was so cool that he had a phone in his shoe, because the problem was in Iran, they took out the laugh track and the guy spoke in Persian. So we didn’t [...]
Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition
מה שנראה מאוד כמו הריסת בניין בעזרת כפיות תה
Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition
מה שנראה מאוד כמו הריסת בניין בעזרת כפיות תה
השרת המצויין שלנו סבל ממספר שעות נפילה בשלוש היממות שעברו.
אפשר לחפש אשמים ולהגיד שזה האנשים שאנחנו משלמים להם בשביל קו של 24/365, ואז תקלות שנוצרו בגלל נפילות שכאלו, ואפשר סתם לקוות שדברים כאלו לא יקרו יותר.
אם מסתכלים על זה קארמאתית אז זו הפעם האחרונה שאני מתרבב על מעל שנה של UPTIME.
The BBC’s news headline (it is the default live bookmark in Firefox, so that’s where I see my news items) proclaims Israelis hit by new digger attack, which made me think they were talking about some classic video game. What’s wrong with Jerusalem Killdozer sequel?
Someone needs to update Wikipedia, BTW.
No, I haven’t watched it yet (although the bit I did see was cute). But look! here’s a trailer for Watchmen! No, here it is! Or here!
Maybe that’s what’s clogging the tubes. Or maybe it’s just the weekend, and my Internet doesn’t like working the weekend.
