I spent way too many hours online tonight, thanks to Maureen’s McHugh’s post responding to, well… just go have a look. I had no idea there were so many autistic people active online.
Read more →Of all the things people plug into their iPods, this thing is one of the weirdest. (Yet.) (via kottke)
Read more →A fellow known to some of us as Danevolent posted this on a mailing list: Cthulhu Tracts. Yeah, it’s only funny if you know about Chick Tracts and the work of H.P. Lovecraft, but, well, see, this is what we SF nerds find funny.
Read more →Okay, not quite, but it was cool to encounter this Korean blog on which a bunch of Lovecraft-related stuff has been translated to Korean. And, yes, you can see my lamer post in English asking whether the person’s bilingual and whether there’s a significant SF community in Korea that could be hooked up with....
Read more →We know about cephalopod sex depending on tentacles, thanks to my Clarion pal Guy, so this actually makes a lot of sense. Hee. (Via one of the Pauls on the Culturelist.)
Read more →So, you know those pills that help men keep an erection? The ones whose name starts with “v” and (apparently) sounds like the Sanskrit word for “tiger”? Getting spam about that isn’t weird, but getting spam about that, which contains mangled Christian tracts, is too weird, even for me: enabled to lay hold on...
Read more →Ms. Dewey is a really weird search engine… but, I think, is probably a decent model for the kind of thing we’ll be seeing as bandwidth pipes get wider and wider. But I hope they get a little more intelligent, so they’re not pestering me to enter new searches while I’m reading the results...
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