"Oh look, he's posting something!"
"Something exciting?"
"No, it's a link to a contest he wants you to spend 30 seconds voting on so a friend of a friend can win a kitchen because there is a Boletus picture in it and because the intermediary friend is very nice and gave him a job-lead. And the contest ends soon. Maybe today? He's not too clear on ( Read more... )

EDITED TO ADD, via northbard:
Bridges on the Don Valley Mountain Bike Trail have been sabotaged. Please inspect all bridges before proceeding!!

Fran Lebowitz is so cute. I like how she talks about herself in 3rd person, like Bob Dole. And she's such a Luddite.
So even low technology I find troublesome. Basically with computers it’s a typing thing. I don’t ( Read more... )

"Just walking along the street, I am constantly struck dumb by the beauty of a piece of rust on an old gate, or the purity of the sound of a blind beggar singing for his supper, or the chord made by three competing air-conditioners. I think that most people filter out those kind of things from their perception of life, by necessity -- to avoid ( Read more... )

One problem with my extended vacation from LJ: it appears that in the crucible of a certain kinky social networking site that's been taking up me posting time, I've gotten more vicious. While the Rants group I've been frequenting there is not quite the seething cesspool that 4chan is, the expectations of civility are very low, and pulling punches ( Read more... )

Joss Whedon is a good sport about Warner Bros. stupid decision to ruin reboot the Buffy franchise.

[1] just kidding! Joss is a hack who hates women!

[reposted by permission of author, FL user "irtehkinkylol ( Read more... )

The simple truth is that going back a year in time will also move you a light-year away in space. This resolves the usual grandma-murdering paradoxes; you will never affect "the past" at your start coördinates because even travelling at light speed you won't get back home until the moment you left, but you can use your "time"-travel machine to ( Read more... )

A few months back I somehow ended up at the image below(*), a sketch for the unfinished middle panel of an incomplete triptych Dante Gabriel Rossetti set out to make for a cabinet belonging to William Morris ca. 1859.


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Another link dump! Get your links, free ( Read more... )

O divine garçon, from that bottle which you first poured for me ( Read more... )