C For Cookie
Always remember, cookies are a sometimes food.
Wes Phillips
Steam Powered Aeroplane
A (very) short history. You mean it wasn't just a John Hartford song?
Creating Characters People Want to Spend Time With
The Blackwing Diaries makes a few points about characterization. This blog has become a regular stop for me.
Titanic II
My buddy Jeff and I went to the movies last week and I'd see this before any of the movies we saw trailers for.
Productivity Enhancer
A collection (sort of) of short speculative-fiction presented as "The Periodic Table of Science Fiction." Bet you can't read just one!
The Lambrett Twist
Via BoingBoing, the greatest Scooter ad ever.
Eureka!
Charting that "A ha!" moment.
Eye of the Beholder?
As far as color perception goes, it's in the brain. Maybe. Probably.
It's a Good Story, But . . .
The story of Carl Friedrich Gauss' schoolboy triumph over a manipulative teacher is well-known, but Brian Hayes discovered a more interesting tale—and a moral.
How Many Folk Musicians Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb?
I guess that depends on the era.