This will be growing by about two or three links per day as I get my bookmark data gradually transcribed here.
Most Recent Edit: Thor's Day, the 19th of Ninthmonth ("November"), 2009 C.E., 3:57 p.m., C.S.T.
Amygdala; Animation World Magazine; Apostropher; Ariel Gore
Bad Astronomy; Bear's Battlestar Galactica Blog; Bob Mitchell in the 21st Century; Brendan Calling; By Ken Levine
Chaos Manor Musings; Chaos Manor Reviews; Classically Liberal; Consumerist; Crooks And Liars; The Crotchety Old Fan; Cult News from Rick Ross
The Daily Dish; The Daily Superman; The Daily WTF; Dandelion Salad; Darth Mojo; Disloyal Opposition
Eschaton; Exposing LJ Abuse
The Faculty Lounge; Fafblog; Felicia Day; File 770; For What It's Worth
Generation Y; Goodbye, Microsoft; Grits for Breakfast
Hero Complex; The Hill; Hullabaloo
Ideas; iFeminists.net; Instapinch
J. Neil Schulman @ RationalReview.com; Johnny Dollar's Place; JustOneMinute
L. Neil Smith At Random; Lance Mannion
Mightygodking; Mises.org Weblog; My Favorite Books
Neal Rubin's Blog; Neptunus Lex; News From Me; Notes from a Final Frontiersman; notmymayor
Oberon Zell-Ravenheart; The One Ring; Operation Yellow Elephant; Orcinus
Pangloss; Papers, Please!; PeterDavid.Net; Physorg.com; The Planetary Society blog; Pro Libertate
Real Live Preacher
Schneier On Security; SciFi Wire, SFScope; The Sideshow; Skippy's List; Slacktivist; Soul of Star Trek; The Space Review, Space Solar Power; Spider Robinson; Starship Dimensions; Startrekdom; Sunni and the Conspirators; Susie Bright's Journal; Swingers' Chatter
Tailspin's Tales; This Modern World; Thomas Jefferson Center; Threat Level; Tom Wilson USA...Large Man, Good Blog; Toonopedia; Topless Robot; Trek Movie Report; Trek Today
An Unfortunate Set of Events
View from Above; Views from the Cyberhenge
Waiter Rant; We'll Know When We Get There; Wendy McElroy.com; The Wild Hunt; Wren's Nest News; WWdN: in Exile
Zoe Paleologa
Having been reminded in a couple of weblogs that last week was the 50th anniversary of the premier of Rocky and His Friends, I am also reminded of sitting with some of my friends years later and ago -- 1986, actually -- all of us unwinding after a Doctor Who convention in the restaurant of the lamented, lost Henry VIII Hotel in Bridgeton (with Patrick Troughton and Nicholas Courtney one table over) when I suddenly came up with:
"Hey, Doc, watch me pull a Sontaran out of my hat!"
"Again, Harry?[*] That trick never works!"
"This time for sure."
(pulls out Dalek instead) "Exterminate!"
"No doubt about it, I've got to get meself a new hat!"
It was about nine o'clock on Sunday night, after everything else at the con was finished, with all of us tired and it probably seeming funnier at the time than it does now, with Messrs. Troughton and Courtney looking over at us, no doubt wondering why we were all in convulsions from laughter, but it still was a great "you had to be there" moment.
Those were the days.
[*] Harry Sullivan, of course.
This is the Monday Morning Video, twenty-fifth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
Today, I need a big damn hero. Hell, we all need big damn heroes. So here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mher704i
It's been way too long since I watched my boxed set. Time to dig it out, along with my copy of Serenity.
This is a very late edition of the Monday Morning Video, twenty-fourth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
Since I again wasn't feeling well this morning, instead of skipping, as I did last week, instead I'm posting two videos celebrating a third subject: the recent 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.
First, the Man of Steel substantiates his favorite sibilant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hRKBPTu
Then Patrick Stewart solos sublimely about whether this is a B or not a B (yes, that is a question):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA7lv1SD
I'm not feeling well, so I'm not up to searching for a cool video this morning. I'll have a new one next week, unless I decide to do one tomorrow instead.
[organ music plays]
Announcer:
"Will he have a new video? Stay tuned tomorrow and next week for our possible thrilling answer! And in the meantime, be sure to stock up on our sponsor, Little Chocolate Donuts, John Belushi's Breakfast of Champions!
This has been Don Pardo speaking.
This is the Monday Morning Video, twenty-third in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
Remembering the late William Rotsler's rules for convention masquerade costume presentations ("Short is good, funny is better. Short and funny is best."), here is Patrick Stewart in three quick scenes from Jeffrey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ea7bj5Ms
My mother died four years ago today.
Today hasn't been as bad as earlier anniversaries of her death. I've been merely melancholy rather than crying outright as I usually do on this date. On the other hand, I've had bouts of tears almost daily for most of the last fortnight, so maybe I'm just cried out for a while.
I know I will never get over this, that I will feel the hole in my heart of her absence (and that of my father, too) every day for the rest of my life.
"Mourning never ends." -- Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Illuminatus!
This is the Monday Morning Video, twenty-second in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
It was difficult to find something Halloweenish which wasn't too gross and/or scary for my own tender sensibilities, yet fit the Holiday theme and still was funny, so it was either this or fifteen minutes (not funny but nonetheless magnificent minutes) of Vincent Price performing a one-man show of "The Cask of Amontillado", which I will save perhaps for Poe's birthday next October. In the meantime...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4i7OKW
By the way, with regard to the title and some of the verses, while Floyd was always intended to be a little slow on the pickup (although not to the level of the Pyle brothers), actor Howard McNear did actually have a stroke during the course of the series, which affected his speech, slowed his ability to react to other actors, and required him to spend most of his time in a chair. In a remarkable act of decency, Andy Griffith and Executive Producer Sheldon Leonard kept him working on the show, enabling him to keep his dignity. He never was a dimwit, and I think the video maker put that in just to keep the title rhythmically similar to the original, as Floyd was certainly never hard-hearted or ill-tempered in any way that even satirically he could be called a "demon barber".
This is the Monday Morning Video, twenty-first in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
Being from 2000, this is already dated in a few ways (most obviously the failure to predict flatscreen monitors becoming common) but it still holds up in most others.
Note that two of the boxes of discards in the closet are labled "Commodore Amiga" and "Apple IIgs", two innovative personal computer technologies which didn't survive the Attack of the Marketing Departments. To this day, bit for bit, the most fun sustained computing experiences I've ever had were with my Apple IIgs. I guess as with your first Doctor or your first starship command, as it were, your first computer remains the one you love best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiB0VgOK
This is the Monday Morning Video, twentieth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
This is why Star Trek's Universal Translator for non-Human languages will never happen...
...because this can occur with a language we already understand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_mlwnA
This is the Monday Morning Video, nineteenth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
Actually, this is a re-run of a video I used during SpaceWeek, back on Wednesday, July 15th, the reason being that yesterday was the 52nd Anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1 and the beginning of the Space Race.
"Surprise!", lyrics and music by Leslie Fish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mZ9pKv
This is the Monday Morning Video, eighteenth in a series of videos intended to help you get your work week off to a better start.
I'm late today because Kevin is home with influenza. His pediatrician is swamped -- maybe I can get him in to see her tomorrow if I call when they open at 8 a.m., but no Tamiflu prescription without an office visit. In the meantime he's getting acetaminophen, loratadine-d, and vitamin C (we're out of zinc until Wednesday night) and being urged to drink as much water as he can.
Anyway, this was probably the only Starfleet bridge set ever built which was large enough to dance upon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjNKyoRu
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