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)