Did you know that there is a blog dedicated to pictures of women drinking tea? I didn’t, and now I sort of wish I still didn’t (Safe for work, I think, for now, but who knows what the future brings.)
More importantly, do you find this idea more or less creepy than:
Furries?
Cos-players?
Trekkies?
Slashfic?
H-dÅjinshi?
Telemarketers?
Blender.com’s “50 Craziest Pop Stars Ever!”
Note: Contains an unsurprisingly high level of crossover with their “50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars”
*droooool*
I think this weekend marks a new low in human interaction for me.
Saturday: I went into London to see a show. I was running late, and getting to Waterloo to find the whole Northern Line shut down didn’t really help matters. A while later I was rushing up Tottenham Court Road when I found [...]
I started writing short book reviews as a way for me to keep track of what I’d read over the years. I was too lazy to do the same for music and I was hoping that making judicious use of Lastfm would remind me of the things I actually listened to a lot.
Well, it turns [...]
Ghostwritten - David Mitchell
Mitchell’s first novel feels a lot like a warm up to him writing Cloud Atlas. It’s got approximately the same format of a series of globe-spanning short stories, each linked through some connection of the characters involved, but it doesn’t have quite the same impossibly-intricate, Russian-dolls structure of the subsequent book.
It’s [...]
The Christmas period meant lots and lots of books.
Spin - Robert Charles Wilson
Spin manages an interesting balancing act. It’s a hard Sci-Fi novel that works in some genuinely interesting - although not always entirely believable - character development, and some musing on human crisis response at family- and global-scales.
The “Spin” in question is a planet-engulfing [...]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be woken up by Stephen Fry in an English butler’s uniform? (We will not judge, you’re amongst friends here.)
If so, then the Voco Alarm clock is for you. Programmed to bring you out of slumber with a variety of refined yet motivational messages (Sound [...]
Scientists at Edinburgh University have successfully created a nanomachine. Read about it now before we’re all turned into grey goo.
On the other hand, a different bunch have made a replacement for carbon fibre out of carrots. Practical and delicious!
If you’re not yet heartily sick of Horny Werewolf Day, but also don’t want to pay the yearly tithe to Hallmark, then Diesel Sweeties has you covered:
I’ll freely admit that I do not have an oil rig, gas refinery, disabled warship or anything else weighing close to 60,000 tonnes that I want moved from one place to another, but I’d still quite like a go on one of these semi-submersible heavy-lift ships. (Lots more fantastic pictures at that link.)
So many things wrong with this situation. Too confused to pick one to start off with:
A charity production of The Vagina Monologues in Florida has changed its name after a woman complained it was offensive.
Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach changed the title of the play to The Hoohaa Monologues, reports Metro.
It came after a complaint [...]
Orlando Sentinel - 06/02/2007
Lisa Marie Nowak, an astronaut that police say attacked a rival for another astronaut’s affection at Orlando International Airport on Monday, was charged today with attempted first-degree murder.
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All of the charges stem from Nowak driving more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of another woman who had [...]
BBC News - 06/02/2007
A health and safety expert has been banned from driving after he was caught shaving as he overtook a line of rush hour traffic at 70mph.
Edward Hutcheson, 39, was seen leaning forward to look in his rear view mirror as he used an electric shaver.
He was banned for six months and fined [...]
Bonnie Ruberg is providing a vital Internet service: documenting examples of video game influenced cakes. Yum! (page 1, page 2)
(What can I say? I like cake.)