A new rule for fantasy writers: if you can't write a better elf than Glorfindel, don't write about elves! 

One of the most touching art videos ever. Do watch.

http://artmuseum.pl/filmoteka/?l=0&id=179

"A film about problems with individual memory and the gradual degeneration of collective memory. During his stay in Tel Aviv in 2003, Żmijewski contacted a number of Polish Jews who had left Poland - the land of their ancestors - shortly before or during ( Read more... )

One of the greatest shocks of my life was the discovery, circa 2007, that not everyone on the internet had read the Lord of the Rings.

Oh ffs, #Google. Get your act together.
I got the new toolbar. Now Reader is even further down the list, after Music and Offers which I can't even use here in the UK!

I've just remembered I still have a livejournal account and there seems to be people there. Hello, lj people ! :)Jakub Kaliszewski @ Google+

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/19/catholic-church-sold-child

I laid me down upon a bank,
Where Love lay sleeping;
I heard among the rushes dank
Weeping, weeping.

Then I went to the heath and the wild,
To the thistles and thorns of the waste;
And they told me how they were beguiled,
Driven out, and compelled to the chaste.

I went to the ( Read more... )

"So it came about that the freemen chose them another king, Sweyn, the queen’s brother, who still held to his sacrifices to idols, and was called Sacrifice-Sweyn. Before him king Ingi was forced to fly the land into West-Gothland; but the end of their dealings was, that king Ingi took the house over Sweyn’s head and burnt him inside it. After that ( Read more... )

So, a guy sleeps with an underage girl whom everyone in court (including judge and the prosecutor) thinks looks like 16 year old, behaves like 16 year old, claims is 16 years old and sleeps around not minding anything... is declared not guilty and released - but still gets on the sex offenders register?

Windows Live Writer works with Livejournal. Who’d have thunk it?