Via traveling giants autopope and nhw, the overnight meme: List the towns or cities where you spent at least a night away from home during 2008. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays ( Read more... )

Sometime in late September or early October, I don't know whether it was Teresa's heart attack, Scraps's stroke, obsession with the election, or just general personal fail, but I completely stopped reading LiveJournal ( Read more... )

People on my friends list keep linking to Factcheck.org as if they were some kind of reliable guide to what is and isn't true in political arguments.

What is Factcheck.org? The following answer is reprinted, slightly revised, from comments I recently posted in gregvaneekhout's LJ.

Factcheck.org is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the ( Read more... )

"Note to self. Religion: freaky."

Via agrumer.

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes. Don’t fix your hair. Just take a picture. Post that picture with no editing. (Except maybe to get the image size down to something reasonable. Don’t go posting an eight megapixel image.) Include these instructions.


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Would someone please check in on elisem? She's in the hotel, she's extremely sick, and it would be really good if someone kept track of her and made sure she got back to Minneapolis, where she probably needs to check into a hospital.

(Do not break down her door, but, someone, do please be in touch.)

If anyone reading this has the texts of anything posted to Making Light since March 1--front-page posts, comment threads, anything--archived or in a cache somewhere, now would be a really great time to mail copies of them to us ( Read more... )

I dunno, call me crazy, but it seems to me possible that for some writers, blogging is a time sink and a creative drain, while for others it's a source of connection, energy, and inspiration. It might even be that human beings, not just writers, are all different from one another. I realize that this reveals me as prone to wild, nutty speculation ( Read more... )

I'll give Keith DeCandido credit for one thing: he understands that writing doesn't become "professional" just because a professional does it. I assume that he also understands the implication: "pro" and "fan" are terms for things that we do, not things that we are ( Read more... )

I'm puzzled by Denvention's online Hugo-nomination setup. Specifically, it's not clear to me that people who were Nippon members but who are not yet Denvention members can nominate online ( Read more... )