I sent off my conversion of Kelly Link’s “Stranger Things Happen” to Jelly Ink Press a while ago. Due to a massive tea shortage in the UK, they didn’t have the energy to put it up until just now. So, it’s up. Thanks, Gavin! Oh and Thank you Kelly for such wonderful dreamy stories.

My favorite is “Travels with the Snow Queen.” It is a fairy tale, but with a strong female instead of yet another wilting damsel. It’s funny and surprising and juicy and good. Check it out.

Because it is a single html file, you can download this and read it with anything that has a web browser – PSP, Treo, PocketPC, whatever. Enjoy!

Stepping barefoot on a cockroach. An excellent way to wake up in the morning, and I recommend it to everyone as an eye-opener.

What’s grosser than that? Getting started on sourceforge. I’m trying to get everything ready and done for automatic builds etc on sf.net. The process is not very streamlined.
But never fear, my trivial software will go up there.

This article was published in October 2001 originally: Drowning New Orleans. Found via kuro5hin

Mike sends me a link and now I have to buy all of these. Way to fucking go there buddy.

I found out about ski dubai via treehugger blog. They quite rightly point out how immensely terrible this is for the environment.

One of the major problems facing the world is it’s unification. All places are becoming the same, becoming a monoculture. It’s not just a problem for sentimental reasons – I like that I can have pals in other countries and that we can interknit more and more. I like that people know more languages so that we can all converse. But, you don’t need to go snowboarding when you are in dubai. It will never be as good as the alps or the rockies, and the costs are immense. Yes, we can do it, but we probably shouldn’t. Instead, we should work on better ways to enable you to get to where the amazing stuff is.

But OH OH OH would I like to have it in my backyard. Except, come to think of it, the heat venting from this would probably make my backyard look like Dubai.

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originally uploaded by antimethod.

Flickr.com has a new feature called “interestingness” that helps you find pictures that knock you for a loop. Since it is a huge social site, they can see who’s looking at what and how they got there. They can analyze who’s commenting on a picture, what strange combinations of tags are on it, etc. And then they generate from this data a page full of pictures that you have just GOTTA see.

Along the way, it wouldn’t hurt you to join. Maybe you are interesting?