The most recent tracks I've been listening to on last.fm: Love In My Pocket by VHS or Beta from the Bring On The Comets album. Listen to it now » bring on the comets by VHS or Beta from the Bring On The Comets album. Listen to it now » You Got Me by VHS or Beta from the You Got Me album....

On the shore of Lake Isabella, about 150 miles north of Los Angeles, a crowd of flight techs, most of them either pierced or tattooed, swarms around a small white airplane. It's called an Icon A5. It's a collaboration between an F-16 pilot and a skateboard designer, and it looks like an odd, rakish ...

John Scalzi turns the Whatever mike over to Jim C. Hines, author of The Stepsister Scheme. Los Angeles Times interviews Jane Espenson. [via Whedonesque] Emma Bull shows off the cover for her book Bone Dance . For your consideration...the Hugo Award nominations are open and SF Awards Watch is trackin...

Transition Watch: Petitioning at NASA, Federal Times "But despite these obvious roadblocks, this reporter wonders if Rebecca Griffin won't be successful in the end. After all, in recent years there have been a few successful online campaigns. For example, in 2007, the fans for the now-cancelled show...

What do you all think of all the shit happening in the Gaza strip?I have read a number of posts on various blogs with varying views.Those of you who have been reading my drivel for a few years now may recall my views on the conflict in the Middle East as something like.Nuke the mothers.Every last on...

Shamelessly stolen from himeykitty . I've done these before though. 1. What did you do in 2008 that you’d never done before?Rode a New York City Subway. 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?I don't make resolutions so that way they cannot be broken. I...

Being in space is cool but you do have to deal with the lack of gravity, although astronauts don't have to worry about their sagging bits and waste a ton of money on a plastic surgeon. One of the more inconvenient thing about being in space is relieving oneself, and currently they have special attac...

[It’s a miracle! A homily! Remember those. . .?] Christmas Week (T): 1 Jn 4:7-10; Mk 6:34-44Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OPConvento SS Domenico e Sisto, Roma How casually do you use the word “love”? How quickly does it trip off your tongue when necessary, yet means almost nothing at all? Or, are yo...

We've seen good news in the last week as Israel finally got tired of terrorist bastards lobbing missiles into their backyards and started kicking some ass.  Terrorists are not always easy to spot, though I'm sure Dearborn is still a target rich environment.   As a service to my l...

Holy crap, Batman!  Monday's post is almost entirely brand-spankin'-new!  Do you smell that?  It's New Audio Smell.  And not that New Audio Smell you can get in a bottle to make people think your audio is new, either. Onto the posts! Like in the old days, feel free to request stu...