Random Thoughts

House of the Ded has some nice words for me in the ongoing (?) debate about female bloggers. "She's funny, she's informative, she's obsessive, she's never hostile..." Hrm, he hasn't been reading me long if he thinks I'm not hostile.

Kaja wants to know what you'd like to see in the Girl Genius GURPS. If you have some thoughts, add a comment.

Polite Dissent tells us the identity of The Half-Blood Prince. Oddly, there are no spoilers for the Harry Potter book in this post.

Ian Brill's last two audioblogs from San Diego: July 15th and July 16th. The first one is about creator rights, the second sums up Brill's thoughts on the con.

Eisner Winners from The Beat. All I can say is it's about time Nick Cardy got in the Hall of Fame.

CBR's Photo Parades from the Nerd Prom: Day One, Day Two, and Day Three.

Newsarama has a round up of links to Comicon news.

Learn Morse Code, or even Phonetic Shorthand. Links via Augie.

People pop water balloons in Zero-G.

The Museum of Hoaxes has Vacation Photos.

What's Killing Hollywood. A look at the real causes of the current "slump".

You can download Duck and Cover at the Archive, says Boing Boing. And you can also download Plan 9 From Outer Space says Slashdot.

Someone on Metafilter has spotted a face on Google Maps.

Daily Kos gives me reason to hope that Republicans will eventually take their party back from the thugs.