Last week, to celebrate returning to Hankering for Yarn, and to also celebrate the launch of Bliss Tree, I announced a contest… Celebration Contest I asked people to list off everything- and I REALLY DID MEAN  E V E R Y T H I N G - in this photo. 21 people left comments (thanks everyone - big...

The Guardian Media Group has just announced it is making 78 journalists redundant and closing all its weekly newspaper offices in Greater Manchester - 39 jobs will go at the Manchester Evening News and another 39 at the weeklies. Further cuts in advertising, distribution and IT will bring the total ...

Awesome:- Having amazing friends who listen to my bitching and incoherent rambling no matter what- Watching Genji raw and actually understanding a lot of it, because damn if that's not a shit-ton of keigo and outdated language. Can't get raws past 6 though, my torrent proxy skills are failing me.- N...

For psychics....

Ferret Tarot. A deck for all sexual persuasions. Double-sided decks. Disney tarot (not for publication) Tarot dog tags. Decks with a Happy Squirrel! Electronic Republican Tarot....

The last few days have been very busy, covering DEMO09 from the insides of a Palm Springs hotel. Today, then, was time to get into the outside world. And where better on a beautiful spring day than Joshua Tree? The desert is blooming right now, all the bright colours of the ephemeral desert flowers:...

Well, first the good news. Peter Straub has selected "The Long Hall on the Top Floor" for Fantastic Tales: American Stories of Terror and the Uncanny, which he's editing for the Library of America. The volume is due out in October 2009. I count this, with the reprint of "In the Water Works (1889)" i...

Due to a formatting error discovered at the last minute, and requiring production of a second PDF, Sirenia Digest #39 only just went out to subscribers, about five minutes ago (though, by the time I finish this entry, it'll be more like 45 minutes ago). Again, my apologies on the lateness of this is...

I am one of very few that thinks U2 really isn’t that great, other than The Joshua Tree and a few other random songs. The fact that Rolling Stone gave the new release five stars pretty much guarantees I won’t like it. But Neko Case… ohhh Neko Case. If only you were ten years younge...

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed During our last GoToMeeting, we took a look at what Will had on his desktop. He was using StepTree in order to view and manage the files in his hard drives. This free program is extremely extensive, and will allow you to keep control of what&...