All those topics that i wish i had time to pursue more earnestly.

The Seattle Times: Local News: Octavia Butler, prominent science fiction author, dies at 58:

Octavia E. Butler, the first black woman to gain national prominence as a science fiction writer, died after falling and striking her head on the cobbled walkway outside her home, a close friend said Sunday. She was 58.
Butler was found outside her home in the north Seattle suburb of Lake Forest Park on Friday. She had suffered from high blood pressure and heart trouble and could only take a few steps without stopping for breath, said Leslie Howle, who knew Butler for two decades and works at the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle.

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a great creative mind…. this world will miss her.

Open Source Web Page Editor:

NVU is a free program for editing webpages, with Linux, Mac, and Windows versions.  Read a review.

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this is what i recommend to everyone who uses the more proprietary systems…

Weird Meat: Bug Cart, Khao San Road, Bangkok:

Where else can you find a transvestite selling deep-fried scorpions and giant cockroaches for tourist consumption? Consumption as in food, for people.

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this is an interesting, if a bit wierd blog… i like it

Are there any testicle chefs out there? – National – www.theage.com.au:

Australian chefs with a skill in cooking kangaroo testicles are
being invited to Serbia next year for the World Testicle Cooking
Championship.
The annual event which is organised by the Serbian Tourism Board
is open to specialist cooks from around the world and this year the
contestants had to come up with the best “bull and wild boar
testicle combination”.

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the unsurprising bit is that most people have probably eaten some variation of these, but not known…

VW strikes again: Un-Pimp My Ride [VIDEOS] | Leftlane News – Car News For Enthusiasts:

VW strikes again: Un-Pimp My Ride [VIDEOS]

mostly funny… unpimp my ride.

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US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane.

In John They Trust:

interesting article on cargo cults

I’m Impressed:

Usually I experience a movie trailer as a good reason not to see the movie: either the trailer is awful, or it has all the best parts, or it has all the plot, so why bother. (Or it has icky voice-overs by that deep-voiced guy who does all the voice overs, or the same intensifying chorus that they use for effect in so many action movies and expect me to react to in a Pavlovian fashion.)

But the trailer for ‘A Scanner Darkly’ not only has none of these, but it makes me want to see the movie.

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this looks like it could be a great movie

Ron DeCorte’s Notebook – TimeZone:

The McGonigle Brothers
by Ron DeCorteRead This Article…

The Hublot Solo T Tourbillon
by Ron DeCorteRead This Article…

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some of these are too cool.