Category: Miscellany
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The best things in life are free…
…at least they are this week, because it’s FREE BOOK WEEK at Carina Press! Starting June 20, every weekday, all week, Carina is offering a spectacular title for free download. And when they say free, they mean ACTUALLY free. Not “sorta free,” or “free with a $50 purchase” free, but actually, totally, no strings attached…
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Weirder science
Since I posted his picture on Looking for Belphagor, Robert Downey, Jr. has been responsible for the lion’s share of keyword search traffic leading to this blog. Fully 78% of keyword searches are now robert downey jr. Let’s see; what other keywords are leading people here? Another 13% include Robert Downey Jr., Robert Downey, Jr.,…
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And the Spammy for best randomly-generated suck-up goes to…
According to the latest spam comment on my blog, I have “great high quality facts.” I’m laughing so hard I can barely compose this post. Thank you, “Cheap Coffeemaker,” for brightening my day. :)
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Those lying steamboat captains! Grrr!
I adore the NY Times archives. I come across these old articles every once in a while during random research that are so entertaining it makes me wish I lived a hundred or so years ago if for no other reason than to look forward to the morning paper. Tonight I was researching steamboat speed…
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With a Bit of a Mind Flip, You’re into the Time Slip
Ever feel like you’re living in a very odd, alternate reality? Sometimes it seems I’ve fallen into Frederik Pohl’s There Will Be Time or Richard Bach’s One, or anything by Philip K. Dick. I have the niggling suspicion that I took a wrong turn, or a thousand wrong turns, and every subsequent action further tangles…