Random Access

Wednesday – 22 July 2009
Last night, after dinner, I crashed on the sofa for about an hour. Crashed. And the fact that I made it through dinner was a feat of willpower in itself. I was that tired. After waking up, I felt better and then proceeded to just lounge around for the rest of the evening.

Chew on This: Food for Thought
In a rare – but not unprecedented – instance, Craig Ferguson had a bit of a rant last night in his… pre-monologue:

Intersting… and rather insightful, too.

Stray Toasters

• I’m giving Firefox a break and taking Safari on an extended test drive. So far, so good.
• From NPR Music: Lee Fields: Soul Survivor
• By way of : World of Warcraft movie: From computer screen to the big screen, with Spider-Man’s Sam Raimi to direct
• The View from the Middle: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
  • Part 2 of the interview was posted this morning.

  

• If advertisers were supervillains, or vice-versa
• The ground floor of my new ‘Clix building is complete. At some point, I’ll finish off the second story.
• Guide to Pirate Parenting
• Sussex cops try to supress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright
• From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file: Commissioned paintings using ashes of dead person
• Explain emergency, Musharraf told
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• Intergalactic Playground: engrossing, insightful history of sf aimed at kids
• Also from the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file: PowerPoint considered militarily harmful

Tonight: High Noon, with Gary Cooper. (“Super duper…!”) ¹

Namaste.

¹ – Bonus points for anyone who can identify this reference.