Mark Owings (1945-2009)

Another fannish friend gone.

Thanx to File 770

Another "natural health product" debunked

Ginkgo doesn't work. I keep thinking that ephedra was removed from the list of natural health products when it was found to do something. Like "homeopathic," "natural" is a euphemism for "placebo."

Thanx to andrewducker

Only you can prevent typeface snobbery

Comic Sans Liberation Movement

Thanx to Making Light, which does not approve.

Terminological exactitude

I will do a summary of the decade one year from now, when the decade ends.

Worst of the Year

The Golden Dukes for general public malfeasance.

Thanx to Susie Bright