Comic: Security
Note: Sale
I know it’s not classy to do two plugs in such a short time, but turns out Zazzle has a big sale this weekend, and I DID just make a bunch of new products (though they may be familiar to some of you…), so:
Kivitasku Designs
Note: Fairy Lil on PatchTogether
PatchTogether.com is a website where artists can submit a design, which, if it gets enough votes, will be made into a figurine and sold on the site. Pretty neat, huh? I just submitted my first design, Fairy Lil.
The resulting figurines tend to be so expensive that I think this is the sort of …
Thursday Links
Section: Getting Stuff For Free
Lottery winners show people can’t necessarily handle wealth as well as they think they can – article on some shady looking MSN website. Interesting article though.
This blog links to the free iTunes tracks in the U.S. store. All quite legal.
-
Section: Facebook Still Evil and Other Internet Catastrophes
Facebook and others caught …
Book Review: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister
Gregory Maguire
http://www.gregorymaguire.com
-
It’s pretty clear what Gregory Maguire’s schtick is – find a well-known story and derivate the heck out of it. He writes a very specific kind of pro-fanfic, which challenges the accepted interpretation of a beloved tale by injecting realism, death, sex and grime and telling it from …
Note: Wear Lilac Day
Tomorrow, May 25, is the Wear Lilac Day. This can be celebrated in two ways:
a) Wear lilac and chant in-jokes about Terry Pratchett’s Night Watch; or
b) The same, and also donate for research into curing Alzheimer’s.
More information on this can be found on Livejournal and Facebook, but really, that’s about it.
Wear Lilac for Alzheimer’s …
Comic: Uses For Breasts
Fun facts about mobile phones…
…that a lot of people on the street don’t seem to know.
- You can pretty much read and send email on any phone – even the cheap ones. It’s not anything unique to a Blackberry or a smartphone.
- You should NOT send mobile email through the “Nokia Email” or “Nokia Messaging” system, because it is EVIL. Here’s …
Thursday Links
Section: Dr. John Watson
(First two links found via Queering-Holmes.)
TheLana on ”Genius Wranglers”.
The Illustrated Handbook of Watson Culture – a Sherlock Holmes/John Watson comic, or rather a leaflet on, well Watson culture, by Paperflower86.
Note: Some of the other comments in the thread are nsfw.
Squadron B animated Kate Beaton’s comic strip “A Case of the Two Watsons”.
-
Section: …
Note: I now have a photo blog.
Just created and filled up a Tumblr blog with my photography.
While, yes, it includes tourists shots and cat photos, each one is a photo I’m more or less happy with, and most of them I also slapped a Creative Commons licence on, so you can consider them stock photos.
So, with no further ado, we …
keep looking »


