Per aspera

This is fair.
Tangentially: why are well-done imaginary dialogues so funny?  Seriously, few things are so reliably likely to make me laugh.
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New posts at Fafblog (which is the best blog, for those of you unfamiliar with it)!
They redesigned the site an everything, so presumably they mean to write more than just two posts.  One can only hope, as does Robert Farley, that its revivification isn’t just a cruel April Fool’s joke.

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.  […]

SRSLY.

Ezra and Shakes posted this xkcd cartoon already, and I’m going to post it too:
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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, […]

Via The Editors, I think I’ve actually overloaded on cute.

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, […]

I haven’t seen Cloverfield yet. I plan to. But it’s my understanding that the monster in Cloverfield isn’t Cthulhu, though there was some wishful thinking in that direction when the first trailer came out.
I wish it had been, though. Part of what’s compelling about Lovecraft’s narrative voice is that he only gives […]

From the comments to a post on the Whatever featuring a video of a Beatles-esque band doing “Stairway to Heaven”: this is the greatest thing I’ve heard all day.

Shut up.
But you’re right, I am. I can’t believe I spend as many hours a day as I do on the interweb, and have never heard Chocolate Rain until today, when Shakes linked to it while showing this:

First: “I move my mouth away from the mic to breathe in,” as I mentioned over there, […]

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 […]

All environmentalists are French hippie pussies:
Goodwin leads me over to a red 2005 H3 Hummer that’s up on jacks, its mechanicals removed. He aims to use the turbine to turn the Hummer into a tricked-out electric hybrid. Like most hybrids, it’ll have two engines, including an electric motor. But in this case, the second will […]

Also via Atrios, Ezra writes a very clear distillation of why those poor “liberal hawks” deserve every bit of abuse they get from the dirty fucking hippies on the blogs.

Jay Smooth, of Ill Doctrine and hiphopmusic.com, has a theory about Bill: