Per aspera

The full text of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (a book I personally love) is now online here for you to read, for as long as you can stare at a computer screen.
And while I’m at it, I’ll remind you of the existence of Escape Pod, a weekly podcast of science fiction short stories, read aloud.  […]

The title is a description, not a command. Tor is giving away free .pdfs of some of their titles, at the rate of one a week, and they’ll email them right to your own personal inbox, if only you ask. Not only that, there’s a contest involved. I’m signed up, of course, […]

On the Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society, I found a post about hole punch clouds, which took me to this perfectly wonderful site: The Cloud Appreciation Society. The very existence of a Cloud Appreciation Society website makes me happy and full of love for humanity. Then from this image of a tornado, […]

All my Michigan Democratic peeps (do I have any Michigan Democratic peeps?), you know what to do.
(I believe this was all Kos’ idea)
(via Making Light)

I’m glad you asked!

I like the excerpt they provide:
He must escape or die.
. . . Almost instantly the shrill sound of a whistle broke to his right and a street guard stepped from a doorway, struggling to free her rifle from her garments.
“Male Pig!” she screamed. “Halt!”
Why would the guard be struggling to free […]

Eric and I were discussing renewable energy at Christmas dinner, and how the challenge isn’t generation, it’s storage. I described hearing about pumped hydro storage, which was a new idea to the table (I’ve only run across it once myself, in, I think, a comment thread at Matt Yglesias‘ blog). So I googled […]

Kevin Drum has announced the winners of the Golden Wingnut award, for the all-time wingnuttiest blogpost. N.B. that first place went to a guy who used to call himself “Hindrocket.” Since most of you don’t spend nearly as much time on the Internet as I do, you might be slightly perplexed by the […]

“Buttsex” is just an anagram for “subtext.”

I have a theme in my head, and this Regina Spektor video is one illustration of it (said theme has nothing to do with the title of this post, except in the ways that it does).

Apart from my metaphysic, I would like additionally to link you to another Regina Spektor song, Better, which rocks my […]

This is the funniest thing I have ever seen in my life. I’m serious.

Yacht Rock Episode 1
Yacht Rock Episode 2
Yacht Rock Episode 3
Yacht Rock Episode 4
Yacht Rock Episode 5 (my favorite)
Yacht Rock Episode 6
Yacht Rock Episode 7
Yacht Rock Episode 8
Yacht Rock Episode 9
Yacht Rock Episode 10
After having made episodes for a year, they stopped […]

I know for a fact there’s a dent in the wall of one of the second-storey rooms in the house in which I grew up that was caused by the hurling of a twenty-sided die.  That’s just how I rolled, as a lad.

It cannot be coïncidence* that I’ve spent the entire weekend playing Guitar Hero.
Lauren has been watching a metal documentary, and is clearly no stranger herself to the metal.  From comments, I followed a link to the Wikipedia page for Lemmy Fuckin’ Kilmister.  Imagine my surprise as I learned that “Kilmister” — and a metal-er fuckin’ […]

Arrrrrrrrrrrr!

I’ve been watching Bill Hicks on YouTube this evening.
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
Part VI
Part VII
Part VIII
Part IX (credits)
Stick with it through part eight; that’s where he describes the conception of the antichrist.  It’s perfect.

Matthew Yglesias, who is much smarter than I am, and who had been accumulating more identities, blogularly speaking, than Marduk, has decided to ditch that paganesque shit and consolidate himself into the One True Internet Yglesias.
BLOGROLLED!