Hello world!
Kerrigan is having her first book published! Hooray! Publication date is May 18, 2007. You can get more info at the following links: Creatrix Books and Kerrigan’s new website!
(much credit and kudos to Chris as creator and webmaster of aforementioned new website!)
Posted by Deb in Books, Events, Feminism, Holiday! Celebrate!, Literature, Science fiction, Writing on February 24th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
(A kind of unicorn chaser, yes.) If you liked the idea of writing a novel in a month, what do you think of writing, recording, and editing an entire album in a month? Better yet, how about doing it in the shortest month of the year?
The RPM Challenge is to record 35 [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun, Making Stuff, Music, NaNoWriMo on February 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
Nick sent along this depressing article entitled “Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling.” In other words:
You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Iraq, World on February 12th, 2007 | No Comments »
Jim Hightower has come up with a new animation for his “gooberhead awards.” This time it profiles the folks involved in allowing non-organic beef to be injected with carbon monoxide to keep it looking pink and fresh (regardless of how old it is!).
This totally goes under the “grossest news of the week” and the [...]
Posted by Deb in Food, You have got to be kidding on February 8th, 2007 | No Comments »
image and story courtesy Springwise
SilverJet recently announced they have crossed from the dark side into the neutral side… CO2 neutral, that is. And being the first airline to do so gets the official wooden nickel from me. I never thought the airline industry would come close to getting CO2 neutral.
Heck, if they can [...]
Posted by Nate in Environment, Travel on February 7th, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m too busy to say anything about this Top 10 list of hybrid animals, other than “Maaaaahm, can I get a zony? Pleeeeease?”
Posted by Chris in Animals, Oddly Enough, Science on February 7th, 2007 | 8 Comments »
Karen is too tired to post this article from the Seattle P-I:
Proponents of same-sex marriage have introduced an initiative that would put a whole new twist on traditional unions between men and women: It would require heterosexual couples to have children within three years or else have their marriages annulled.
I can’t wait to see what [...]
Posted by Chris in Culture, Law, Uncategorized on February 6th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Be vewwy quiet…..
Posted by Deana in Events, Fun, Holiday! Celebrate!, Plain foolishness, Television, Would you like to play a game?, You have got to be kidding on February 6th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’ve said this kind of thing before, but John Allen Paulos at ABC News has an interesting spin on how the $1,000,000,000,000 we’ve spent on Iraq to date could have been put to better use. For example:
The cost of the war can also be expressed as approximately 28 HS’s, where HS, the annual [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Government, Iraq on February 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
The temps drop to about zero, windchill is way below that, and Glen and I are snowbound. So we decided to bundle up and see what was going on out in the blowing snow.
Posted by Deana in Film, Fun, Plain foolishness, Wicked Weather, You have got to be kidding on February 3rd, 2007 | 1 Comment »
