Little did I know when I set out to create an Obama llama that it had already been done, albeit in plush rather than lolz.

It's an easy connection to make. The rhyme, the fact that llamas are excellent at leading silly sheep out of bad situations. Yup.

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What that guy said.

Except for the bit about biofuels.

Interesting discussion of the future of food security at this Google forum ( Read more... )

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Andy Weir has finished Casey and Andy. C&A is the very best webcomic involving time-traveling mad scientists who die frequently. Now Weir will have more time for Cheshire Crossing. And there was much rejoicing.

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I just finished reading "Variable Star," the novel that Robert A. Heinlein outlined in 1955 and Spider Robinson wrote. It was amazing. It has many of the classic features of a Heinlein novel (starts at a dance, has a heroine who is not whom she seems, a long starship journey and some moderately long diatribes about future history), but is written ( Read more... )

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The Chron posted a map of the Bay Area fires. All the smoke is giving a golden hue to the air that is hella otherworldly. Beautiful, but wrong and disturbing to deep parts of my brain.