Crash: Why Random Swans Lie Down on Broadway and the Tao of Hu Jin Tao
Diss capital: Karl Marx, in London for a book signing, stumbles off the Eurostar and straight into an interview with Paul Mason at a café in King's Cross. I've prepared this whole historical...
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MeFi user The Whelk reveals How It Turned Out: [...] Almost by accident he had stumbled into doing custom sprites for homebrew games. He was popular. He started to expand his skills, staying up all...
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Courtesy of McSweeney's: P.G. Wodehouse's American Psycho… The affair of the inferior business card is one which casts rather a gloom over the otherwise illustrious annals of Bateman family history....
View ArticleDelicious just can't understand why it's the shy, quiet ones who get all the...
The relaunch of Delicious (minus several useful features) has resulted in another wave of interest in Pinboard. Co-founder Maciej Cegłowski welcomes the newcomers: For any bookmarking site, the fan...
View ArticleHow would they vote?
How would they vote? is fanfic with a somewhat unusual focus. Take, for example, The Breakfast Club's "Princess", Claire Standish: Soon after joining the Breakfast Club, Claire realised there was more...
View ArticleThe Bombadil – Dark Santa connection…
The Bombadil-Dark Santa connection… The following paper was posted to the usenet newsgroup, rec.arts.sf.written, by a person posting under the name "Sea Wasp". The circumstances whereby he acquired a...
View ArticleNeoliberal Holmes
Neoliberal Holmes, or, Everything I Know About Modern Life I Learned from Sherlock (BBC 2010): Summary: Every age gets the Holmes it deserves. [Via Making Light (Particles)]
View ArticleTwo Presidents
Courtesy of Maureen Dowd: President Obama seeks post-debate tips from a master… The lights from the presidential motorcade illuminate a New Hampshire farmhouse at night in the sprawling New England...
View ArticleMurder everywhere
The BBC, courtesy of figures produced by More or Less, provides the hard statistics to demonstrate that Jessica Fletcher was the world's greatest serial killer: Location Murder rate Midsomer County...
View ArticleI know that on November 12 2015 at 3:45:41, @justinbieber is going to say...
A Twitter bug report pivots into a spooky little science fiction story: Subject: Twitter API returning results that do not respect arrow of time. This will take some explaining. It started as an...
View ArticleJoyful and Triumphant (St Zenobius and the Aliens)
Courtesy of Jo Walton, Joyful and Triumphant (St Zenobius and the Aliens): It's a bit of a cliche, but the first thing I thought when I came to Heaven was that I didn't expect aliens. It's a cliche...
View ArticleThe whale awaits your judgment
Robin Sloan contemplates The Moby-Dick variations: Where does one novel end and another one begin?
View ArticleThe Sea Witch Sets The Record Straight
The Sea Witch Sets The Record Straight: I didn't take her voice for myself. I want to set the record straight on that, right up front. People got a lot of crazy notions in their heads, the way the...
View ArticleThe important thing is that I'm thinking like a founder.
Paul Ford's One Day, I Will Die on Mars: UPDATE. I am living a nightmare before lunchtime. First, the sofa delivery people gave me a window of 7 AM to 7 PM, so I'm a prisoner in my own apartment....
View Article'Bad Neil Gaiman' stories
Neil Gaiman Reads "Bad Neil Gaiman" Stories. Be sure to stick around for the last story (which Gaiman declares to be his favourite.) [Via The Millions]
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