The Weekend

I sent off my short story, "The Ancient Bridge", to the L. Ron Hubbard Writer's of the Future competition. (It's just about the only thing of his legacy untainted by Scientology.) My story is a straightforward sword story, coming of age - with the help of an old warrior. It's late in their contest's quarterly judging, so I sent it on in. I'll get a rejection in a month or so and send it to your better mags, and once they reject it, I'll find an e-zine to publish it.

It was a lazy Saturday of planning a turtle corral and driving around (Saturday driving). There are a lot of expensive and really ugly houses in east Decatur, between the Country Club and Point Mallard. I also tried to rescue one of our tomato plants that outgrew its stake.

Sunday was chores - trash cans, finally took down the back gutter (I was covered in mud and had to spray off the patio), cleaned out the professionsal mop bucket, moved some weeds & vines we'd cut down into the woods, transplanted a small sassafras tree (let's hope), moved some stuff into Patrick's room/storage, emptied out this cool old cedar chest that will go into the bedroom, somewhere in their I took a nap, & later on I cooked steaks for supper. We'll watch Deadwood on HBO on Demand tomorrow.

MIT professor blog on participatory culture - I'm in.

Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

I love space exploration news

SPACE.com -- Pluto's Newest Moons Named Hydra and Nix

As well they should

World scientists unite to attack creationism - Independent Online

I'm a likely candidate for this one

The disorder of
these times, neophilia

Imagine that.

U.S. Senate Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq

Weekend Adventuring

Spent all day & night Saturday running a Dragonquest roleplaying game based in the world of my short story, "The Ancient Bridge" with six of my good friends from college. A fine time was had by all.

Interesting and a little unsettling

HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway - The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.

Top 10 Strangest Computer Mods

TechEBlog

Will check these

Wired Blogs

For Tobermory

BibliOdyssey: Pantagruel I

Tivo on cellphone

Qtek 8300 Smartphone + Slingbox = TiVo on Your Mobile @ Alice Hill’s Real Tech News - Independent Tech

Will have to start checking this one

TechEBlog

More shopping

FLAX art design: Where Creative People Shop

Oh my

'Mind over matter' no longer science fiction

A little lifehacking from Britain

20 things everyone needs to know

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Southern Counties | Honours for Britain's oldest man

Honours for Britain's oldest man - 110 year-old WWI vet - : "In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to 'cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women'."

A Libertarian Link List

Ten Visions of Libertaria

DIGITAL MAOISM

The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism By Jaron Lanier - Edge.

Oh I need this

List of Latin phrases (A–E) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Finally something on NPR I can agree with.

NPR : There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue

This is exactly what we need

Bacteria-eating chocolate that produces hydrogen waste that can be used to generate electric power! - New Scientist Tech.

This list has got my name on it

Top 10 Gadgets You Can Actually Afford - SCI FI Tech