January 2007
| 1/31/07 |
Wednesday Author Interview: Adrienne Martini posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) It's time again for the Wednesday Author Interview, and this time around we have something a litt... |
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| 1/31/07 |
Bright Idea? posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) An assemblyperson in California has it in for the lightbulb, and he has |
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| 1/31/07 |
Oook Oook Oook posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) I'm sure you did already know this, but today is Nat |
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| 1/31/07 |
Here, Have Some More Spam posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) The last time we checked on how much spam out there, I think it was something like 89% of all e-m... |
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| 1/31/07 |
Upgrading the Computer posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) I went ahead and got Windows Vista, the new Microsoft operating system, and am installing... |
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| 1/30/07 |
And Now a Story So Heartwarming That Your Ventricles May Burst Into Flame posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) It involves a small boy who decided to donate his beloved miniature horse to charity to help rais... |
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| 1/30/07 |
Annoy The Stores posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) I found this article suitably amusing -- and helpful: 10 Shopping Tricks That Stores Hate. Basical |
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| 1/30/07 |
Mmmm... Candy Islands posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) Here you can see Athena giving the once-over to her latest magnum opus: A candy island ma... |
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| 1/30/07 |
What It's Like to Be a Writer posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) My friend Charlie Stross is an award-winning writer -- in fact, he and I were nominated for the s... |
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| 1/30/07 |
Snow Delays posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The nice thing about a snow delay day: I get to sleep in an extra two hours before I have to take... |
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| 1/29/07 |
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Let There Be Light posted by johnmscalzi (18 comments) Athena's home sick today, so when I was in her room checking in on her (she's getting better, tha... |
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| 1/29/07 |
Regrettable Teenage Fashion Incidents posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) Last week's Weekend Assignment asked people to con |
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| 1/29/07 |
Okay, That's Weird... posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) I know I posted an entry including this link, to Discover Magazine's 20 things you didn't know ab... |
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| 1/29/07 |
Who Knows Who in the New Testament posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) Now, this is cool: 21st Century data mapping meets 1st Century Judea as the folks at the ... |
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| 1/29/07 |
Einstein As You've Never Seen Him Before! posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The Los Angeles Times has a great story on Albert Einstein, revealing a set of letters written to... |
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| 1/28/07 |
Antarctic Heat posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Smithsonian magazine goes to Mount Erebus, one of the southern-most volcanoes in the world, and e... |
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| 1/28/07 |
OMG! Tangerines!! posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Tangerine Panic! Run around and avoid the tangerines. That's all there is to it. And yet I find i... |
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| 1/27/07 |
Best of All, the Medal is Made of Steak! posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) You look like you could use a heartwarming story. Here you go: A black Labrador who saved ... |
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| 1/27/07 |
Your Saturday Dorkiness posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This is pretty cool: Some folks were looking at a computer desktop and asking themselves: How can... |
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| 1/26/07 |
Your Friday Music posted by johnmscalzi (9 comments) I swear to you, nothing can prepare you for the video that awaits you behind this link. You think... |
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| 1/26/07 |
The Two Most Awesome Words That Are Awesomely Awesome in Their Awesomeosity posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) Are you ready for them? Really ready for them? Really really? Here they are: Caffei... |
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| 1/26/07 |
"Forgetting How to Smoke" posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) Wow, you can quit smoking just like that, and all it takes is a little brain damage: Scien... |
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| 1/26/07 |
Saving the World in Eight Easy Steps posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Home-based hydrogen stations. Toxin-eating trees. Sonic water purifiers. Cool sc |
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| 1/26/07 |
Are Those Stones in Your Stomach Or Are You Just Glad to See Me? posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Did you know you can never have enough entirely useless facts? It's true; I looked it up. So here... |
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| 1/25/07 |
Weekend Assignment #149: Ill-Advised Teenage Fashions posted by johnmscalzi (18 comments) I had occasion to look at some pictures of myself as a teenager recently, which is the cause of t... |
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| 1/25/07 |
Masterful Messes posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Yes, Athena is reacting to the horror that is my messy desk. No, I'm not proud of it. Alt... |
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| 1/25/07 |
Six Degrees -- Now in Useful Form posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) This is heartening: You've heard of the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," in which every actor in Hol... |
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| 1/25/07 |
OMG Did u Rd tht Nvel? posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) If u cn rd ths, u can rd ths nvel: A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile pho... |
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| 1/25/07 |
Go Tyra Banks posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) I'm not one to generally link to anything in People magazine, but I think this is worth a link: T... |
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| 1/24/07 |
The Best Pictures... of Saturn posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) NASA asked folks to vote on the best pictures to come out of the Cassini mission to Satur... |
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| 1/24/07 |
Your Computer or Your Spouse? posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) This sounds disturbing but actually makes sense when you think about it: A new study finds... |
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| 1/24/07 |
Kids: Really Really Really Don't Do This at Home posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) Here's a fascinating story about the famous wrestler Andre the Giant, and his amazing feats of fo... |
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| 1/24/07 |
Big Moments in Corporate Stupidity posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) One of my favorite annual lists is finally out: Business 2.0's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business, i... |
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| 1/24/07 |
The State of the Union posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) President Bush gave his annual State of the Union address yesterday; if you missed it, |
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| 1/23/07 |
Popping Your Pictures posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) I've been playing around in Photoshop again, clearly. In this case, I've been trying to m... |
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| 1/23/07 |
The Power of Hot Rocks posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Could geothermal energy become a useful new source of energy here in the US? A comprehensi... |
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| 1/23/07 |
The Weirdest Thing You'll See Today, Tuesday Edition posted by johnmscalzi (8 comments) The final scene of Star Wars -- re-enacted entirely by hands. |
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| 1/23/07 |
Another Truth Brutally Shot Out From Under Me posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Is nothing scared anymore?!???!??! The old adage that "no two snowflakes are alike" might ... |
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| 1/23/07 |
The First Set of Oscar Predictions You'll Read Today! posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) When I'm not fooling about here on AOL, one of the other gigs I've had on and off for the last 15... |
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| 1/22/07 |
Your Monday Photo Shoot: What a Mess! posted by johnmscalzi (15 comments) A chance encounter with a really astounding back seat has inspired this Monday Photo Shoot:... |
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| 1/22/07 |
Cats Vs. Cheese: The Final Confrontation! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) For the most recent of the Weekend Assignments, I asked folk to |
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| 1/22/07 |
Yet Another Way Not To Help Your Career posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This is possibly a classic of the form: An administrative judge has denied unemployment be... |
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| 1/22/07 |
Da Baby Before Da Bears posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) All right, I find this a bit much: Nine months pregnant and married t |
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| 1/22/07 |
When Beeping Simply Isn't Enough posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) I'm not one of those people who often needs an alarm clock; I have this weird ability to ... |
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| 1/21/07 |
I'm Alive, Part II posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) I'm home. The drive back from Michigan was snow-filled, but I drove carefully and everything was ... |
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| 1/21/07 |
On the Way Home posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) I'm about two minutes from being booted from my hotel room, so I'll keep this short and let you k... |
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| 1/20/07 |
This I could Have Told You posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Daydreaming is brain's default setting, study finds Daydreaming seems to be the default se... |
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| 1/20/07 |
Incidentally, The Scariest Thing I Saw on the Road Yesterday posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) It was some guy in a large car, screaming into a call phone that he was holding in one hand, gest... |
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| 1/19/07 |
Want to Be More Sociable? Up the Voltage posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This is an interesting story from Time, in which we discover that some folks are using anti-seizu... |
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| 1/19/07 |
I'm Alive posted by johnmscalzi (8 comments) Here is the view out my hotel room -- brrrr! Frosty! Actually the drive to the hotel was ... |
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| 1/19/07 |
Drivin', Drivin', Drivin posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) I'm off to pack for and then to drive to, the convention which I will be attending this weekend. ... |
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| 1/18/07 |
Shoot Out Your Window! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Yes, this week I asked AOL Journalers to shoot out their windows. Not with guns -- that would be ... |
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| 1/18/07 |
Weekend Assignment #148: Cats or Cheese? posted by johnmscalzi (51 comments) I beta-tested this topic elsewhere online, and people seemed to enjoy its total and compl... |
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| 1/18/07 |
From the Jungle to the City posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Here's a fascinating story about a German woman who spent almost all of her childhood and teenage... |
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| 1/18/07 |
Just a Whole Damn Mess of Links posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) I feel like dumping a whole bunch of random links in your lap. Hope you're ready: * How ma... |
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| 1/18/07 |
The Travel Insanity Continues posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Surprise! I'm traveling again! This time, however I'm merely going away for the weekend, to be a ... |
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| 1/17/07 |
Your Wednesday Author Interview: Tim Pratt posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Welcome back to another installment of the Wednesday Author Interview. This week we've got a fast... |
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| 1/17/07 |
Yes, But How Many Are Living Without Cats? posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) First, a quick procedural note: I sent my questions for today's Author Interview a bit late, so I... |
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| 1/17/07 |
They Got Capone on Tax Evasion, You Know posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) Things I didn't know about Tennessee: Apparently, the state has a tax stamp |
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| 1/17/07 |
Happy Birthday, Mom posted by johnmscalzi (8 comments) Hey, it's my mom's birthday today, and as many of you know she just happens to have an AOL Journa... |
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| 1/17/07 |
Diamonds in the Yard posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) This is one of those times where a picture doesn't do the thing justice: The frost on my ... |
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| 1/16/07 |
Ready or Not Here Comes the Drop posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Inasmuch as they're in the news so much these days: How you're supposed to do a hanging. There ar... |
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| 1/16/07 |
How to Become a Zombie posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) First, you need to wake up at 4am for no good reason at all. Then, you need to need to do a whole... |
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| 1/16/07 |
Hey, I Live in Australia, Sort Of posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This is pretty darn cool: A map of the US, where the names of the states are replaced by the name... |
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| 1/16/07 |
Next They'll Play Darts to See If The Husband Has to Put the Toilet Seat Down posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) A couple of crazy kids decided to get married, but rather than the wife automatically taking the ... |
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| 1/16/07 |
If You Wear A Scarlet Letter, People Will Just Think it's a Sports Team Logo posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) News flash for Michiganders: Think twice before having that affair: In a ruling sure to |
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| 1/15/07 |
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Out Your Window, Redux posted by johnmscalzi (14 comments) I did this topic at the very beginning of the Monday Photos Shoots, and I thought it might be fun... |
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| 1/15/07 |
Warning! Weekend Assignment Results Are In! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) The above warning sign is absolutely, positively true. Fortunately a stalwart band of Wee... |
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| 1/15/07 |
Have You Seen Me? posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) Here's an interesting story: When pets go missing, dogs ar |
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| 1/15/07 |
Something to Weird You Out on a Monday Morning posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) If you want to be vaguely disturbed for the rest of the day -- and I know you do -- then |
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| 1/15/07 |
Holidays You Probably Missed posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Yes, today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- and Athena's home from school to prove it -- but Sat... |
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| 1/14/07 |
On The Banks of the Muddy Scalzi posted by johnmscalzi (13 comments) It looks like Lopsided Cat is looking directly at me; he's not. I took this photograph fr... |
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| 1/14/07 |
More Cool Future Cars posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) Last week I noted the new GM electric concept vehicle, the one that would would never have |
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| 1/13/07 |
You Are Not Prepared For This Sort of Awesomeness posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The Battle of Helm's Deep, from The Lord of The Rings, re-enacted by candy. Sweet, sweet |
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| 1/13/07 |
Start School at 11am? posted by johnmscalzi (9 comments) I can't imagine any teen anywhere disagr |
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| 1/12/07 |
Your Genuinely Disturbing Music for Friday posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) So, what would it be like if Gollum from The Lord of the Rings had the voice of Barry White... |
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| 1/12/07 |
National De-lurking Week posted by johnmscalzi (9 comments) Did you know that this week has been National De-lurk |
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| 1/12/07 |
Of Course The Average Life Expectancy Back Then was 25, But Never Mind That Now posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) What would happen to the average human if they were made to eat only what their ancestors -- thei... |
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| 1/12/07 |
Your Friday Game posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) The game is called Towers -- you place a combination of towers in order to stop a bunch of creepy... |
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| 1/12/07 |
I'd Like to See the Communion Wafer posted by johnmscalzi (9 comments) This is a nice, roomy, modern-looking church, and it's not until you look closely that yo... |
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| 1/11/07 |
Another Example That We as a Culture Really Have Too Much Disposable Income posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) Ladies and gentlemen, |
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| 1/11/07 |
Some Art Appreciation posted by johnmscalzi (17 comments) Athena painted this rather unusual-looking cat today, so I brought her in to discuss the ... |
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| 1/11/07 |
Weekend Assignment #147: Warning! Warning! posted by johnmscalzi (16 comments) I was wandering around the Web and found a Warning Sign Generator, and I thought it could make a ... |
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| 1/11/07 |
Aaaaie! They're Huge! posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) For the Monday Photo Shoot, I asked folks to show things that were larger than life, and we've go... |
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| 1/11/07 |
The Other Side of the Sky posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) I'm usually posting pictures of sunsets here, on the basis that I'm actually awake when they happ... |
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| 1/10/07 |
Your Wednesday Author Interview: Duane Swierczynski posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Welcome back to the Wednesday Author Interviews, in which we interview authors (surprise!) who ar... |
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| 1/10/07 |
Hey, Wanna See a Comet? posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) If you go outside tonight, provided your sky is reasonably clear, there's a good chance that you'... |
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| 1/10/07 |
Anxious Pets? Have a Pill posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) Aww. Looks like Ghlaghghee's having a rough day of it today; perhaps too much time sp... |
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| 1/10/07 |
When Fish Commute posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) On one hand it's nice that this fellow made a sort of nature trail for his fish to get from one a... |
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| 1/10/07 |
Ook Ook Ook posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) I kind of love this: An Australian zoo h |
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| 1/9/07 |
I'm Walking Around With a Towel Under My Chin posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Man, words really can't express how badly |
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| 1/9/07 |
My God! George Lucas Was Right! posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) There might be a dark force after all: |
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| 1/9/07 |
Ye Olde Blaste Frome the Paste posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) No, they didn't spell it "blaste" back in the old days. I'm just playing with your head, t... |
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| 1/9/07 |
How the Past Saw the Future posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Come with us back to the wacky days of 1995 -- days of clear colas and REM and Windows 95. Ba... |
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| 1/9/07 |
Fiddling With Photos and WooHoo Slideshows posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) This is fun: I was reading Journal Editor Joe's piece about |
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| 1/8/07 |
Another for the "Amusing or Disturbing" Pile posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Here's a vaguely creepy Photoshop challenge from the folks at Worth1000.com: Fine art of ... |
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| 1/8/07 |
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Larger Than Life posted by johnmscalzi (7 comments) Think big! I've got Photo Shoot to help you along: Your Monday Photo Shoot: Take a picture... |
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| 1/8/07 |
Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With a Watermelon posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Apparently people carve watermelons. |
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| 1/8/07 |
Either Amusing or Disturbing posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) You decide: Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer," played on hands. Really: |
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| 1/8/07 |
New York States of Mind posted by johnmscalzi (8 comments) Well, I'm back home after several days in the New York City area, and I'm back just in time to co... |
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| 1/7/07 |
Electric Cars Back Again? posted by johnmscalzi (8 comments) Is this the car of the future? For several months now rumors have been rampa |
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| 1/7/07 |
You Are Here (More or Less) posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Because I know you're just he sort to wonder just how you fit into this wacky, crazy, zany univer... |
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| 1/6/07 |
It's God's Engagement Ring posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) The next time someone shows you a particularly large rock on an engagement ring, after you ooh an... |
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| 1/6/07 |
Perfect for Many 10-Year-Old Boys All Over This Great Land of Ours posted by johnmscalzi (4 comments) "Self-Cleaning Underwear Goes Weeks Without Washing" And right now I can hear hundreds of ... |
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| 1/5/07 |
Quick Check-in posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Hey folks, just a quick check-in. I'm now hanging out with a friend of mine from college, who... |
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| 1/5/07 |
From the "Things You Were Probably Not Expecting To See Today" File posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Dude. It's a two-headed baby cow. And yes, there's a freaky-weird picture to go along with the ar... |
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| 1/5/07 |
Something Worth Thinking About posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) For retirement security, most of us are socking away cash into our 401(k) accounts through work. ... |
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| 1/4/07 |
Sneak Preview posted by johnmscalzi (10 comments) One of the nice things about visiting my publisher here in New York is that when I arrive... |
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| 1/4/07 |
Rocket Scientist? Cheerleader? Why not both? posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) This is an unusual story: A woman who is a cheerleader for the Houston Texans football team -- |
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| 1/4/07 |
Famous People Being Creative -- No, Not That Way posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Via Boing Boing, this very interesting piece about patents filed by celebrities -- everyone from ... |
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| 1/4/07 |
Weekend Assignment #146: I [Insert Personal Feeling Here] New York posted by johnmscalzi (28 comments) Look, it's the Flatiron building, one of the iconic buildings in New York City and also w... |
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| 1/4/07 |
First Photos of 2007 posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) This week's photo shoot asked people to put up their first photos of 2007, and we have quite the ... |
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| 1/3/07 |
200 Calories of a Lot of Stuff posted by johnmscalzi (13 comments) This is kind of fun: This site show you |
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| 1/3/07 |
The State of Our Union is... Wordy posted by johnmscalzi (0 comments) Here's a little something for you history geeks in the audience: Every single State of the Union ... |
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| 1/3/07 |
Good News for People in Their 12th Year of Researching Their Dissertation posted by johnmscalzi (1 comments) Want to live a long time? Then you should |
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| 1/3/07 |
Arrival posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) I've made it to NYC without no problems in the slightest -- shocked, shocked I am! -- and... |
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| 1/3/07 |
Up, Up and Away posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) I'm off now, to the airport. In the comments to the previous entry mentioning that I'm travelling... |
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| 1/2/07 |
2007 is Looking Up! posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) Each year, the Web site The Edge asks dozens of the world's intelligentsia -- scientists, philoso... |
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| 1/2/07 |
Speaking of Getting Out of the House More posted by johnmscalzi (5 comments) As it happens, I actually will be getting out of the house over the next few days -- I'll be in N... |
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| 1/2/07 |
More Proof, If You Needed It, That I'm Possibly Not Quite Normal posted by johnmscalzi (10 comments) Today is the day my book Old Man's War comes out in what's known as a "mass market paperback" edi... |
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| 1/2/07 |
Exiled! posted by johnmscalzi (6 comments) Today is Athena's last day of winter break, and because I'm basically spoiling her, she's... |
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| 1/2/07 |
New Year's All Over The World posted by johnmscalzi (2 comments) Remember that crazy, wild New Year's Day from 2007? Man, it seems so long ago now. But now you ca... |
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| 1/1/07 |
Your Monday Photo Shoot: First Photos of 2007! posted by johnmscalzi (20 comments) Because I know you're all still nursing hangovers, let's make this an easy Photo Shoot: Yo... |
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| 1/1/07 |
Resolutions for 2007 posted by johnmscalzi (3 comments) For last week's Weekend Assignment, I asked people to post what some of their resolutions are for... |