from the personal collection of Harlan Ellison, signed by him. Three days only.

In order:

• Sesame oil
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Leek
• Green beans
• Soy sauce
• Dried hot pepper
• Crimini and shiitake mushrooms, sliced
• Veal scaloppine, sliced

Serve over noodles.

• Mansfield Park and Mummies
  
• Emma and the Werewolves
  
• Jane Slayre
  
• The Adventures of Huckeberry Finn and Zombie Jim
  
• Both Little Vampire Women and Little Women and Werewolves

Not to mention Robin Hood and Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter, and The Undead World of Oz, Alice in Zombieland... What the hell are future historians ( Read more... )

in the history of everything ever.

(Naturally it is by Eliezer Yudkowsky.)
(You'll have to excuse him a little Ayn-Randishness, in the sense of beating you over the head with his point.)
(Also I followed the author's suggestion and started at Chapter 5, so I can't vouch for anything before that.)

• Wikipedia
• xkcd (note that Randall's root password is apparently null)
• ThinkGeek
• Topeka Wave
• YouTube
• Starbucks
• Topeka UK
• Hulu
• CollegeHumor

Post more in the comments. There's also a big list over at TechCrunch.

Précis:

• MoMA is awesome
• Steak frites is (are?) awesome
• Scarlett Johansson is awesome

1. There was a scruffy middle-aged man in a scruffy rabbit suit being interviewed by MSNBC next to Radio City Music Hall.
2. I now know where Magnolia Bakery is (at least one location. Do they have multiple locations?)
3. The exhibit I went to see was ridiculously awesome ( Read more... )

(New to me, that is.)

1. Wiretap, a.k.a This (Fake) Canadian LifeTAL alumnus Jonathan Goldstein interviews interesting people and then makes funny skits on related themes. Sometimes he retells Bible stories in a snarky postmodern manner.
   
2. Radiolab, a.k.a. The Oliver Sacks/Brian Greene Variety HourStories about physics, neurology and music, made by ( Read more... )

Afternoon: MoMA, featuring that rarissima avis, the performance-artist retrospective.

Dinner: TBD, depending on numbers, time and price. Two possibilities.

Evening: Arthur Miller, featuring the formosissima Scarlett Johansson.

One day next week. ETA: Oh, the show is dark Mondays and the museum is closed Tuesdays. I guess it'll be Thursday, ( Read more... )

Apparently the sequel to Pride & Prejudice & Zombies and Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters is... Abraham Lincoln vs. Vampires.

Two short SF stories that are really two sides of the same story:

• Crystal Nights, by Greg Egan
  
• That Alien Message, by Eliezer Yudkowsky

(Written independently as far as I can tell.)