Archive for November, 2006

I’m afraid of the future. If I move to NZ, can I be protected from 2007, too?

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Great white sharks will be protected in New Zealand from 2007 – Wikinews

Wordie: Flaublian

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Yes, because words really needed a social metadata site.

Wordie: My list of Vowel Changetacular adjectives

Why does Japan have all the cool stuff?

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

This (via Engadget) is the only ipod wireless device I’ve seen that actually provides the functionality I want—most wireless headphones are both expensive and fragile. With one of these, I can pop in my cheap headphone of the week (this week it’s the Koss KSC75, which hook over the ear rather than having a snappable [...]

Finished.

Monday, November 27th, 2006

Well, I’m still tweaking, but I’ve hit 50k, more or less finished out a truly crappy plot, and am, as they say, spent.

I can’t wait for next year! Except that I can and will happily wait at least the intervening year, because that’s how long it will take for me to recover from this one.

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Flixens to shut down?

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

That would suck. I just found them a few weeks ago, and they quickly became my favorite source for tv and movie news, rumors, reviews, etc.

Flixens |

Especially since my other main source of information along these lines is geekdrome, which is utterly devoid of female perspective.

Knitting as Comic

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

Another experiment with ComicLife

Comic Life

Saturday, November 18th, 2006

I helped my sister set up her new computer (a mac mini), and I have to say, it’s got some nice bells and whistles, including Front Row, which is pretty nifty looking, a remote, etc. But one of the biggest crowd pleasers is Plasq’s “Comic Life” software, which lets you take whatever images you happen [...]