If any of you are feeling particularly warm and fuzzy towards me this holiday season, I sure would love a copy of this:


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Please recommend some audio podcasts to me.

I'm mostly interested in lecture series, culture, politics, arts, science, current events, etc. To give you an idea, here are my current podcast subscriptions:

• Behind the News with Doug Henwood;
  
• Democracy Now!;
  
• the beeb's In our Time;
  
• NPR's Fresh Air and Science Friday;
  
• The Long Now Foundation's Seminars ( Read more... )

Last night I found that most of my Microsoft Office applications had vanished from my computer. Panic! I need to create a Powerpoint presentation for class on Saturday. The Google docs presentation software is just a wee bit too primitive for me, so I dove in and downloaded the free open source OpenOffice. I am here to testify that OpenOffice ( ( Read more... )

mcfnord points us in the direction of "Praise Moves", the Christian alternative to yoga!

I'm not sure if you granola-munchers can smell the sulphur through all of the patchouli that's wafting from your greasy dreadlocks, but yoga is the gateway drug to freaking HELL.

How, exactly, can downward-facing dog land you in the hot seat? Well, as Laurette ( Read more... )

Wonder of wonders, right before I left work, I looked in the newspaper and saw that Persepolis is playing at the local "Cine-World" film fest tomorrow night. I rushed to the theater and bought a pair of tickets!

That's some luck!

I cannot wait for the animated version of Persepolis to hit the theaters. I'm totally gonna use this trailer for the finale of my YA lit course booktalk this Saturday.

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Rock it, Marji!

You know those silly mystery novels whose whole stock and trade is the punny title, a la Diane Mott Davidson's "culinary" series? "Dark Tort", "Sticks & Scones", etc., etc., etc. Well, I've got what could be the perfect title for such a braindead foodporn mystery:

"DEDUCTIVE SEASONING"

oh yeah.

Saul Williams just released a Trent Reznor-produced album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. They're offering it up as a free download, or you can buy a higher quality version for $5. After years of swiping everything I could lay my bitTorrenty hands on, I figure that this is the sort of project that deserves support ( Read more... )

I've kind of changed my mind about Tim Spalding, the LibraryThing guy. I asked him to clarify his thoughts on what would would happen if Focus on the Family google-bombed the Lolita record with a "smut" tag, and his answer was basically a snarky "you people worry about shit that hasn't happened, cuz you're dumb." Here's his exact wording:A lot of ( Read more... )

My last entry presented so many possible ethnic puns that I just completely failed to pack in.

Blob devours Prague unczeched.

Czech yourself before you wreck yourself.

A new way for patrons to czech out Kafka.

...something something golem of prague.

EPIC FAIL