I need a shirt like this, and if you're cool, you need one too.

"SpecOps-27. Wordage is our business. Grammar is our game."

Here' s a video over at Youtube. You should all check it out, it's fabulous. If you like Salvatore's Drizzt books, you'll really enjoy it, but even if you just like fantasy, watch it, it's very well done.

Now, this is one of the reasons I like the idea of re-reading Lord of the Rings along the calendar. We all know Frodo was stabbed, and that sucked, and it hurt a bunch. But it's never really gotten through (at least to me), just how long he spent wandering the countryside with shadow-knife stuck in him. He was stabbed on Oct. 6, late in the evening/night, which is today. He arrived in Rivendell on the 20th -- two weeks later. That happens in like two chapters of the book, time scale is lost. Even in re-reading today, I accidentally slipped in the events of tomorrow, when Strider returns from tracking the Riders and seeks the athelas. So I'll read that again tomorrow, and intersperse the travelling through the two weeks, I suppose.

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First, I can't really do anything to liven this up: Iran's Supreme Leader: "Don't masturbate during Ramadan."

Here's a short review of the South Park episode, "Make Love, Not Warcraft.". Some great lines (mentioned from the article, as I can't remember them from one viewing: Cartman: You can just hang around outside all day tossing a ball around, or you can sit at your computer and do something that matters. Blizzard employee: How do you kill something that has no life? It looks like Blizzard actually made the in-game stuff for the show, so they worked pretty closely together. Looks like you can watch it here.

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett charged Terry Gilliam a groat for the Good Omens movie rights. Apparently the agent fee will be a farthing, and Gaiman had to hit ebay to pick one up.

Did anyone else hear about the guy that recited pi to 100,000 places? Yeah, 100,000. Fear!

Do you have any idea how irritating it is to write a story and have to make sure, every time you use the word "dragon," the word "fate" can replace it sensibly?

That is all.

I link you to things that are important for your life!

Some of you may be interested -- you should all be -- but Someone made a cake shaped like the Great A'Tuin.

should have a particular interest, but you should all be fascinated by glass models of natural science stuffs.

Halloween approaches on hooked feet, so prepare yourself a bat-costume with an umbrella and a hoodie.

There's a new replica of the original Star Trek phaser. Since this phaser is obviously superior to the Blackberry Picard & crew carried, you should be enthralled.

Apparently, There's a new version of Make Love! The Bruce Campbell way coming out, with more scenes and a prologue.

Somewhere in England, you could live in the Shire. John Hodgman is mortally offended that it offers no underground homes, which makes sense.

So, Tolkien was professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford.

Why, then, does Quenya have eight noun cases? That makes it like Latin, a horrible abomination of counfounding grammar and sadism.