I haven’t read Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series yet (even though it’s on my list), but this student-created video makes me want to run out and grab the books I’m missing and give them a read-through.  (Source: SF Signal)

Well, shoot – apparently a katana really can slice a bullet in two.  It even does reasonably well against a few rounds from a .50 machine gun.

Alex King has a sweet little writeup about how to set your WordPress blog up to have friendly search URLs.  What makes them so nice is how easy it makes it to search your blog for, well, anything.

QOTD – Advent Rising.  Great story, glitchy design. I’d like to see the sequel that was planned, only without the glitches.

Can you write your way out of a wet paper sack?  It’s really a very important skill to have.  (Source: serotoninrain)

I’ve been offline since Sunday evening, due to another fried DSL modem, courtesy of a local lightning strike.  So, I just quickly scanned through nearly 600 new items in Google Reader.  Anything longer than 3 lines didn’t even get more than a glimpse, and almost everything shorter then 3 lines simply got marked as read [...]

Quote of the Day: ”...and a hootenanny – a whole lot of hoot, and just a little bit of nanny.”

This is just absolutely gorgeous – and a very interesting concept!

The Harry Potter discussion continues apace – albeit at a bit of a slow pace.  Go check it out and add your two cents!

Well, I had my site moved from a PHP4 server to a PHP5 server so I could run a new application I’m interested in checking out.  Trouble is, after the migration I discovered that I also need Apache2 installed, and this server only runs Apache 1.x.x.  I’ve opened a new ticket to see what the [...]