Before I forget, here are some reasons why the Internet is made of win:

BEARDHEADS


Goddamit people I don't have to say anything else do I? Thought not.

Furthermore from the denizens of Youtube comes

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One of the things that has always frustrated me is the charge that throughout the long (longer, in fact, than anywhere else might I add) history of homo sapiens in Africa, there has never been a written script indigenous to the population (Ancient Coptic/hieroglyphs don't count). Now as it happens there have been, but the one I am most ( Read more... )

What James and Rupert Murdoch don't know...

Murdoch: This scandal has exposed the scale of elite corruption

The Cameron Collapse

Spoilers ahead!

So, now having seen this film twice, I think it's safe to say I'm pretty secure in my impression of it. For the time being at least. I must be honest that after the first viewing, I was a bit confused, not quite knowing how I felt. This was - oddly enough - actually my initial reaction to 'District 9' and though the comparison ( Read more... )

( ...the terminally uninteresting update! )

One of these days I will have finished everything ever and then I'll be able to think again.

And blog more frequently...

In the meantime, here's a video of a baby echidna having her dinner:

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RIP Diana Wynne Jones

I knew it was coming soon as she had been seriously ill for a while, but I feel broken. Diana Wynne Jones was my role model for writing fantasy - dammit for writing in general. She was the only writer who I could read over and over, whether over a period of seconds or years, without feeling like something was missing ( Read more... )

 RIP Elizabeth Taylor

 Oh BBC! That word, sci-fi? I don't think it means what you think it means.

And you'd save a hell of a lot more money if you just got rid of whoever composes those scores for you.

Think about it.

 ‘Critics are like eunuchs; they know what’s supposed to happen - they just can’t manage it themselves.’ ~ Søren  Kierkegaard