What Fantasy Archetype Are you?
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According to a Viking saga, one of their early kings was a lay psychotherapist...

From a NY Times review of recent books on plagiarism:

"The [anti-plagiarism] watchdogs have been caught before. The section of the University of Oregon handbook that deals with plagiarism, for example, was copied from the Stanford handbook."

I know I'm going to alienate people by posting this, but the Aurealis Awards for the Young Adults category, in relation to at least the short story category, are going to be totally lacking in credibility & meaningfulness this year.
No offence to any finalist in the category, but this year's shortlist for the short story category is a total farce.

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From the SMOFS email list:

The American Dialect Society has chosen its "word of the year" for 2006: "plutoed."
Notes the society's web pages:

"To pluto is to demote or devalue someone or something, as happened to the former planet Pluto when
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Since I've been back in Oz I've gotten involved with the first ever Australian Discworld Convention, Nullus Anxietas.

I wasn't intending to get back into con organising so soon after Interaction, but I'd joined up when it was first announced, & when I met a couple of the concom at Continuum 2006 I got enthused (sleepless? lurgi-ridden?) enough to ( Read more... )

The 50 Greatest Cartoons, with links to an online video for each of them, as voted by the animation industry in 1994. Given the (lack of) speed of my ADSL connection, it'll probably take me most of 2007 to get through them. Still, at least I can watch Bambi Meets Gozilla to my heart's content.

Cats run the world...
Or they just run (on a treadmill - well, it's so elegant I'd suggest 'promenade, hastily')...
Unless they're obsessed with flushing the loo...
Overall, cats just ARE.

From the Scholastic Books website...

On this solstice, why not consider orgasming for peace? It's a lot easier than going on a peace rally (well, for most people). Though I'm not sure I like the idea of possibly simultaneously orgasming with people who really believe in this pseudoscience (you can find correlations between just about anything if you look for them).