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. :)
Category: ASIDES
Nude Cephalopods
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.)
A Hundred Dollar Spam
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 Christ by faith, and God the Father absurdity, and uneasiness which attends those who are but will be the ways of God even in this life: but when once we Here then, O believers! is one, though the lowest, degree of enabled to lay hold on …
Ms. Dewey
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 from the last one. And I hope the interface is a little more workable. I am vaguely impressed, even if it is an M$ product. (via Hypersonic Beams)
Dr. Who “Dubbed For We”
(via Julia)
P Diddy calls Bjork
At MILITANTPLATYPUS, P Diddy calls Bjork. I like Bjork, but you know, this is funny too.
Max Headroom Pirate Hijack?
Maybe the weirdest pirate broadcast you never heard of… or at least, that I’d never heard of.
Color Me Unsurprised
Not one whit. About what?
Cut Cable in Hong Kong
Yes, if you tried to connect to my website today, and couldn’t, it’s because some kind of underwater cable in Hong Kong (where this site is being hosted) was cut. They’re working on it, but access has been sporadic for a while.
Inter-Hakwon Warfare
The Hankyoreh has a story about accused teaching method-piracy: An English teacher at a language institute in Seoul has been indicted on allegations that lectures she delivered to her students were stolen from a neighboring institute. I think I have a defense. Look for the original text which the original institute’s examples were stolen from. Teachers are unrepentant thieves. They also are often happy to share, since they stole themselves. I am somewhat doubtful that the teaching material was wholly original in this case. If it was, they should have published a textbook, in order to further learning. If that …