Via willendorf5761 (Who knew there were already 5760 “willdendorf”s on eljay?)

What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as “unread” by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you’ve read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish. Read more »

frankbi has the latest on the Listener against free speech. Pamela Stirling, after using dubious legal threats to shut up a critic says:

So that, we're not into censorship of any kind. As we discussed with Brian Leyland, the Voltaire quote, you know: "I disagree with what you say, but I would defend to the death your right to say it." Read more »

This means the blog will go down sometime shortly to be replaced by a message from my webhost about why you can’t see the blog. I’ve tried to get onto them to jack up the bandwidth again, but I’m not getting a reply. So this is for the benefit of those of you on feed-readers, really. Once the blog goes down, other readers won’t see any explanation at all.

Once I get the bandwidth sorted out, the blog will return (it’s even just possible that I might get it sorted before the bandwidth runs out, but we’re getting verrrrry close). Read more »

Hi y’all. Bandwidth is getting a little tight towards the end of this month (I’ve had to keep on ratcheting it up lately, hello new readers!) so I’m going to see if disabling a few of the plug-ins I have installed cuts the bandwidth usage down. Read more »

The Open Source Boob Project is demanding a round-up. I’ve tried to make this a fair portrayal of the buzz around the web.

Original post by The Ferrett

Not everyone wants to go public with it, and what happens at the con stays at the con. But trust me. If you are, and I meet you, I will ask. And you’ll understand the beauty and simplicity of the Open-Source Boob Project for yourself.

Touch the magic, my friends. Touch the magic. Read more »