I've been very excited to learn that BBC is producing a radio play of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere starring James MacAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, Anthony Stewart Head, and Christopher Lee. Bookmark the BBC 4 Neverwhere site now! First episode airs on March 16, 2013.

I have a great affection for Neverwhere in all its incarnations. I'm looking ( Read more... )

Alas, both work and this gorram cold prevented me from attending Lois McMaster Bujold's signing in San Diego today. Which is a shame because Cryoburn comes with the -best- gift a Bujold fan could want: a Baen CD-ROM that contains a boat load of Bujold ephemera (forewords, interviews, reviews, etc) -and- the entire Vorkosigan saga (or so it claims ( Read more... )

Lois McMaster Bujold has been on my mind ever since I came across an old podcast, Adventures in Scifi Publishing #50, on my mp3 player. It was basically the Mysterious Galaxy booksigning for the third Sharing Knife book, which is the first and only Bujold event I've ever attended. I'm glad somebody recorded it ( Read more... )

TiddlyWiki seems to have consumed my life over the last few days. TiddlyWiki is billed as a "reusable non-linear personal web notebook" and is basically a personal wiki. The beauty of TiddlyWiki is that you don't have to install anything. The application consists of a single HTML page and a ton of well-crafted Javascript. Just open it in the ( Read more... )

I've started watching the tv show Glee. Adults are way dysfunctional. Feel sorry for the kids they are supposed to mentor. Musical numbers make it all better.

This clip from episode 6 is the number one reason why I will be getting this show on dvd. Great performance. Great remix of "It's My Life" and "Confessions." I just want to dance when ( Read more... )

So as punishment for not paying attention to LJ, and more importantly, not keeping up with startredder, I find myself a couple of weeks too late to catch the National Theater "live" broadcast of a theatrical adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Nation at a theater within a 30 mile radius. If I'm willing to drive a hundred miles, there will be a showing next ( Read more... )

I've been sick for the past week or so. Technically, I'm still sick, but it's a holiday weekend and Chinese New Year, so I feel strangely relaxed and well-fed.

Caught up with my reading. A New York bookseller pushed Maria V. Snyder's Poison Study on me, since she saw me eyeing the new Fire Elementals story collection by Robin McKinley and Peter ( Read more... )

I've been wanting an mp3 player for audiobooks and podcasts, and shuffle-type mp3 players are no good for this. Podcasts are freely available on the Internet, and I have a number of library systems I can pick up audiobooks and e-Audiobooks from. I finally jumped ship and got an mp3 player -not- made by Creative and ended up with the Sandisk Sansa ( Read more... )

So I don't consider myself to be much of a science geek, but this music video "We Are All Connected", which was posted by The Symphony of Science project is just inspiring**. It's a beautiful sampling of science videos featuring Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye set to original music ( Read more... )

Glenn Camhi shot some beautiful photos of the Station Fire. I love his night exposures. This building literally glows. I'd love a poster of this one or this one.

EDIT: Well, it looks pretty in Firefox, but I'm not sure how well this page works in other browsers.