Tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day, so get your essentials.

What do you do when you see something accidentally drop from a young woman’s purse, and you want to alert her to that fact, except right then you notice that the thing is an exotic condom, Bill Tozier wonders.

I am not sure if I am going to keep this new style … probably not. I have taken the opportunity to kick Ini Kim off my list of links; he stopped blogging when he became a father. Natasha was added; her blog is new, and so far fairly interesting. Let’s hope she keeps it … Read More

1) About a week ago (?) I saw a Dutch couple, Henk and Yvonne Berg-something, talk about how they got out after the hurricane. I tried to jot down what they said, mainly because it resonated with a memory I had of a similar story I read on the web–the exception being that that similar … Read More

I stumbled upon a blog that claims you can now book holidays to the North Pole as easily as to, say, Mallorca. The reason they give is post-Soviet Union ice breakers; no longer on the state’s pay-roll, they had to find other means of making money, and one of those means was taking tourists to … Read More

Outpost Crystal is the blog from an employee of an internet hosting provider that decided to ride the hurricane. If this were Slashdot, I’d have marked it “+6 Insightful”. Update: Interdictor quite sensibly says that he does not want to talk politics, and then equally sensibly launches into a long political rant. :-) Basically he … Read More

Natasha’s reports that photo blog One Man Safari is now called Happy Palace. Speaking of happy palaces, if you’ve never looked at the candy architecture and pinhole photography of Bethany de Forest, you should.

Romanian X Prize and X Prize Cup contestants ARCA presented their Orizont space craft last Saturday to the public of Bucharest. The Orizont is a winged rocket that, like X Prize winner SpaceShipOne, is to be dropped from a plane, after which it will use its H2O2 powered engine to climb to sub-orbital space. ARCA, … Read More

When Charles Stross decided to give away the ebook version of his recent novel Accelerando for free, using a Creative Commons license, he did it in the hope of stimulating the sales of the p-book. By releasing a free download, he can get a wider readership which–if the book is good–will create better word of … Read More

He was a Cosby fan at heart, it’s clear He searched and found a Cosby hair He spent ten long years to build a cloning machine And now he has accomplished his wonderful dream: To make a house of Cosbys It’s A House of Cosbys Frankenstein meets The Cosby Show, Theo. And remember, Rudy, in … Read More