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 minutes of [...]
Posted by Chris in Fun, Making Stuff, Music, NaNoWriMo on February 12th, 2007 | Comments Off
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 [...]
Posted by Chris in Economics, Iraq, World on February 12th, 2007 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off
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 | Comments Off