A Colder War – a novelette by Charles Stross which crosses Cold War Espionage with Lovecraftian Horror.
Also from Stross is a short story collaboration between him and Cory Doctorow, it’s ongoing writing documented in a weblog: Unwirer.
Dave Winer, bless him, has got “Philip Greenspun”:http://philip.greenspun.com/ to run a weblog (RSS).
As an M.Sc. drop-out, I can appreciate the dire warnings in Dorothea Salo’s Straight Talk about Graduate School. Yeah, I went in with no idea what on earth I was doing, and lost enthusiasm pretty quickly (the really long University strike, which gave me a chance to complete my B.Sc., got me out of the habit of attending classes). Calling it quits came after months of denial, and a semester studying teaching, and other silliness, and I still feel the ache in the stump of the paw I chewed off to get out of that trap. Whenever I hear something cool about Biology (Molecular, Behavioral, whatever), I think Yeah, cool, Biology. I gave that up
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ביגור
היה מוצלח, למעט משחק מאכזב אחד, ותחושת חוסר-מיצוי מסויימת עקב חוסר התכוננות נאותה.
הרצאת המיתולוגיה הייתה כיף, וההרצאות האלו באופן כללי זכו להיענות יפה. ניראה שהמיתולוגיה הנורדית היא צו השעה פתאום – איילת כתבה עליה מאמר יפה לגרגויל, ואבי סבג כתב על הויקינגים לדימונס
Typing Hebrew Points (Niqud) in Windows and Word – you need to have the current keyboard language set to Hebrew for this to work, obviously.