Published December 16, 2008 | 
Some annotations for Dorothy L. Sayers’s Lord Peter Wimsey books. Not complete, but fun if you’d like to know more about the many allusions. I need to email this guy; I can add to it.
matociquala declares: Today is the first annual freedom from writing guilt day.
It’s also the birthday of Jane Austen, Arthur C. Clarke, and Philip K. Dick, not to mention Ludwig von Beethoven and Noel Coward. Points to cynthia1960 and supergee, who both posted some birthday greetings.
Making words and data into images. Beautiful and fun.
A Dress a Day. Lots of vintage patterns and sewing discussions. Link from jonquil
Abominations and Comments Thereon
Avatar Racefail Bingo. Casting directors prove they’re blind to race by using white actors in Asian roles. (pounding head on desk) Does anyone else remember Marlon Brando — Stanley Kowalski,Mister Kurtz, the freaking Godfather — in The Teahouse of the August Moon? No. Just — no.
The admirable blue_vervain reminds us to back up our files. Today. Yesterday several writers lost laptops to theft or irreparable crashes.
Yet another huge security hole found in Internet Explorer.
Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro, said, … “If users can find an alternative browser, then that’s good mitigation against the threat.”
But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.
“I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw,” said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK’s Windows group.
How about due to all the other security flaws, not to mention a honking ugly interface? Why is anyone still using this browser? Link from jabber..
The author of the Lord Peter Wimsey Companion
hangs out on the LordPeter list @yahoogroups. The second edition was compiled while I was an active member there, and curious people will find lots and lots and lots of informatin in that list’s archives. The list members contributed a lot of material, actually.
*twitchtwitch* journalism has spoiled me… whenever I now see the phrase “first annual”
something cannot be a first annual… it can only be annual when it’s reached it’s second year…
*sigh* i feel like one of those unclean grammar fascists now…
Re: The author of the Lord Peter Wimsey Companion
Yep. He goes by the nom “Lord Mountweazle.”
In terms of why anyone still uses MSIE, there are a few compelling reasons. One is that some sites *only* work in MSIE, and sometimes you don’t have a choice about using or not using that site. Another is that the alternate browsers don’t work well on all systems. Opera’s compatability is quite poor, and Firefox (and all its variants) reduce our machines at work to a completely unusable crawl. Like, quite literally unusable — they’ll just stop working for ten or twenty seconds every so often.
I was unhappy to learn that Brad Pitt is playing the lead in the movie version of Mary Doria Russell’s “The Sparrow.” One of the stronger Native/Hispanic parts in sff in a while (though written by a white person, it has huge potential) and given to…Brad Pitt?
Could it be the first annual whatever if you have already contracted to do it again in the following years?