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LOL Firefly: Jaynestown — Put down liquids before clicking the clicky. (via Mike in chat)
Barcodes as art from Japan and Russia — brilliant stuff. (via Jeremy Tolbert)
The 20 Worst Foods in America — Chili’s and On the Border are conspiring to kill you.
OH JOHN RINGO NO. — I think I just ruptured something. (via the other Steph)
Maureen McHugh’s collection Mothers & Other Monsters free to download from Small Beer. The more I read on my iPhone, the more I appreciate plain text or HTML versions of free online things. PDFs work, but they scroll oddly. (via GalleyCat)
The Open Source Swift Kick to the Balls Project and the Open-Source Knuckle Sandwich Project are both excellent reactions to the Open Source Boob Project. As Harlan Ellison has taught us, SF cons are rife with unwanted groping. Publicizing what should have been a private party, and recommending that it be extended to other cons, is ill-conceived and inconsiderate as hell.
Learn to count cards with Mr. 21 in a bunch of handy video tutorials
Signet drops Cassie Edwards, reverts book rights — In retrospect, it’s not at all surprising that it took them nearly four months to comb through all her books.
Tales from Redesignland — “Where Web developers live and wish they could die”
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Hmm. I’ve read all of John Ringo’s books but the Ghost series and I hadn’t really see him do wrong yet. Hell he has an entire female character devoted to the psychological effects of being raped in the There Will Be Dragon’s series. Makes me kinda weary of this reviewer. What are their credentials?