Infinitesimal

Homeopathy porn

Thanx to XKCD

Mythopoeic

The Mythopoeic Society did two good things: Gave the Best Novel award to Jo Walton's Lifelode and instituted an award named for Alexei Kondratiev

Thanx to File 770

Close the tubes!

Joe Lieberman apparently wants the government to be able to shut down the Internet. Bruce Schneier attempts to reason with him.

Vintage

Photographic evidence that Teh Gay was not invented in our lifetimes. (Didn't see any NWS.)

Thanx to skibbley

World without end, amen

Fascinating essay (in ghastly dare-you-to-read-me format) from Graham Sleight on causality, closure, and other things that fiction is more likely to have than real life. Graham praises M. John Harrison for not having closure in his work (which I see as another aspect of Harrison's effort not to be an occasion of sin by allowing people to get pleasure from fiction). I'll cop to being shamefully pre-postmodern about this. I want fiction to have closure, as a special case of a view I share with Anne Rice: Fiction should be better than life. Life has excuses.

Thanx to andrewducker

Not a scrapbooker

ursulav on being a Real Artist

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Fugged by death

Tuli Kupferberg 1923-2010