Tower of London on climate list
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4810826.stm

Excerpt:

The UN's cultural and scientific wing Unesco says climate change threatens World Heritage Sites such as the Great Barrier Reef and the Tower of London ( Read more... )

So I was mentioned in a book of essays compiled by Mercedes Lackey?

Mapping the World of Harry Potter.

o_O

. . . do I get a free copy?

My fellow Isla Vistans and UCSB students, I proclaim to you,

DO NOT FEAR THE WIIIIIIIIIND!

If you want to write things like "Savannah went to Starbucks tonight" or "He ate a bowl of Kellogg's, but got sick and had to take some Pepto Bismal afterwards" in your fictional writing (except much more eloquently than those terrible examples), you might want to check out Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/31/postal.shooting.ap/index.html

The Goleta shootings last night made CNN.

Snake 'befriends' snack hamster
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4627950.stm

My reaction: ZOMG!

I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear,
And weep the more because I weep in vain.

- Thomas Gray, "Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West"

Alas, regardless of their doom ( Read more... )

Sometimes I wonder what I'll tell my children about the world I grew up in, filled with random, horrible terrorist attacks all around the world; people, including children, murdered for their religious beliefs; the destruction of the global environment, seemingly without care by the people who can actually do someting about it; people in power of ( Read more... )

Science vs. Norse Mythology

http://thepaincomics.com/weekly041229.htm

Pwn3d.

I'm going to be on Canadian radio for my third time, because they want to interview me again for Harry Potter. :D ( Read more... )