Teresa Nielsen Hayden
About: Moderator, Boing Boing and Making Light. Community and Author Services, Federated Media.
Editor, 25+ years. Forum moderator and community engineer since the early 1980s. Disemvoweller. Will walk barefoot over broken glass for good conversation.
Currently most interested in moderation techniques, moderation hacks, the function of rule sets in virtual communities, linguistic markers of online behavior, the actual size of the troll population, and whether hardcore troll behaviors are symptoms of an actual illness.
Blog Posts
"Can we have this for the entire Internet?"
--For those of you who think the comment-section moderation style around here is too lax, check out YouTube Comment Snob,...
What the internet is for
--Via Making Light commenter Michael Turyn, who spotted it linked from SF Signal: "My Little Pony" figures dressed up as...
Crazy Creek Chair
--The Crazy Creek Chair is a small, light, easily portable, camp chair. It keeps your butt dry when you're sitting...
If you use Gmail, read this
--Via Chad Orzel: why all GMail users should use https, never http, no exceptions and no foolin': Before Gmail released...
Open thread 113
--In AD 113, the dread of all moviegoers was first released upon the unsuspecting world. I refer not to Godzilla,...
Biden
--Barack Obama has chosen Joseph Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate. Comments? Views? Opinions?...
The honor of your assistance is requested in a small matter of language
--Gentle reader, In the course of her duties today, this blogger was obliged to consider the vast range of input...
Moose Festival
--So, there you are. Weekend coming up. "Ma, I'm bored," you say. "I want to do something I've never done...
Folk Radio
--WUMB Boston is my favorite radio station. Folk music! Hurrah! They're on the internet, too!...
Mama's Little Babies Love Zucchini
--Zucchini, Mama's little babies love zucchini bread. So there I was, reading The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, when M. Poirot...
Carl Drega, Part III
--Pictures, taken 19 August 2008. Below the cut....
Carl Drega, Part II
--I wrote this some years ago, 11 September 2002, on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and e-mailed it...
I am not a programmer, but ...
--XKCD nailed this story, but as straight text I favor John Brownlee's version from Boing Boing Gadgets, quoting the news...
Carl Drega, Part I
--Today is the 11th anniversary of the Colebrook Massacre. The first two murders were a mile north of my house...
Tying It All Together
--CNN reports, today, on cyber-war in Georgia: Experts say last week's attack on the former Soviet republic of Georgia, in...
Gravitation
--A simulation game, simulating bipolar disorder. No, really. The author calls it "a video game about mania, melancholia, and the...
As promised—
----Nielsenhayden.com is now up-to-date once again. Whew....
Lost clarity
--While helping Patrick find a word today (salonnière is the current candidate), I found a surprisingly well-written article on literary...
What the Email Fairy Brought
--Oh, goody! Look what I found in my spam filter! Vous êtes invité :: SOMEONE YOU CALL YOUR FRIEND,...
Air Farce One (movie review)
--From the Unpublished Archives of Red Mike SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Let us talk, dearly beloved, about Air Force One (1997)....
Last-minute Whisperado announcement
--When the server hosting Making Light tanked at the beginning of May, I had just (the day before!) put in...
The Bombs of Georgia
--Over at CNN, Glenn Beck is saying: "This is for America. This is for NATO. This is for Bush." These...
The Ludington Librarian
--On 23 June, 2008, a review was posted at Amazon by someone called "Speakthe truth." It was Speakthe truth's first...
Gnomic Verses
--My father had some words of advice for me, and now I pass them on to you: Once you have...
Paperblogging the Worldcon
--Back in March, a graphic designer named Mike Rohde took a pocket Moleskine sketchbook along with him to the SXSW...
The Ball of Kirriemuir
--Tuvok the Vulcan he was there Standin' at the bar, Sayin' "This isn't logical An' I'm not in pon farr."...
Home
--Back from Denvention. Our flight was delayed to oh-god-o-clock this morning, and both Teresa and I have urgent things to...
Tales of the Big Advance
--When did vanity POD AuthorHouse start giving out million-dollar advances? AuthorHouse is a "self-publishing" service: For a modest financial invest...
Classifying the Novel
--Novels may be classified in this manner: (a) Those that are best-sellers, (b) those that were assigned to you in...
CNN Spam?
--Over on the so-called "CNN Blog" we find this entry: August 8, 2008 Fraudulent spam about CNN.com Posted: 07:45 PM...
Obama 666
--I'd been wondering about all the wingers who were calling Obama "the Messiah." It seemed like an odd kind of...
Tor party logistics
--Greetings from Denvention!* If you're at the worldcon and feel like lending a helping hand this afternoon, Tor has a...
Russia Invades Georgia
--Breaking news: Russian tanks are rolling south. Georgia (whose army has US trainers) appears to be surprised and is calling...
Graphing the Novel
--I claim that all novels can be plotted in 3-space along the following axes: x: True to Beautiful y: Realistic...
Open thread 112
--112 is the Europe-wide emergency telephone number, supplanting or supplementing (in the case of the UK, which still uses 999...
Scenes From The Lives Of The Great Moderators
--You really have to read the first seventy or so comments to this innocuous Boing Boing post, tiresome though many...
All Singing
--It is a time of civil war in the galaxy... Actually, it isn't. The war's over and the browncoats lost....
The Internet, finder of lost things
--Remember when, if you needed to remember the date of the Treaty of Westphalia1 or the members of the First...
Tor.com
--As discussed four months ago on Making Light--Tor.com is public. Join us....
The “aye” in God’s mote
--I’ve been thinking about the paradox of the stone. You know, Could God make a rock so big he couldn’t...
Iran again
--Last April, I discussed the basic problems of going to war with Iran: (1.) We can't even pacify Iraq, and...
Recently on Tor.com
--Liz Gorinsky interviews Mystery Science Theatre 3000 PNH on the life and work of Pauline Baynes David Moldawer on the...
Trinity
--The sixteenth of July, 1945, fell on a Monday. That was sixty-three years ago today. And sixty-three years ago today,...
Trauma and You: Final Exam Pt. Two
--Teresa, don't look. A more complex scene: Car crash. (Another copy here.) What the video shows: The scene is at...
Mindreading
--Think of any number from one to 10. When you have it, multiply it by 9. If it's a two-digit...
Trauma and You: Final Exam Pt. One
--Teresa, don't look. A simple scene. Skateboard accident. What the video shows: A skateboarder tries to do a trick and...
Card Tricks
--Did someone tell you that the way to be popular is to learn politics and join parties? No! The way...
"In the groove with Harold Wilson, violin."
--Like a real-life line from "The Intro and the Outro," it's Jimmy Carter on harmonica. (Joining Willie Nelson in a...
How to run a revolution, in five easy steps
--My friend Emma Jane Hogbin has been building a plan to dominate the world (as soon as she finishes her...
am-phi-brach (n) + am-phi-brach (n) + i-amb (n)
--A dictionary written in verse Is not new, but quite the reverse (I once had a tome in the language...
P - A - R - T - Y? 'Cause I gotta
--Kathryn, Serge, and sundry other lights of the firmament have arranged a Making Light party at Denvention! Entire post has...
"And lightly drizzled with a glistening varnish of epic fail."
--John Scalzi on much the same issues as Our Jim. I want a T-shirt reading "Editing! Gerunds! Death!"...
Time Notices Comments
--Time magazine has noticed that comment threads exist. The article is called Post Apocalypse (heh-heh, get it?) and it starts...
UCVH Seeks COO
--Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital (UCVH) in Colebrook, New Hampshire, is looking for a Chief Operating Officer. The hospital services an...
Trauma and You, Part Four: The Squishy Bits
--Soft-tissue injuries can be dramatic and grotesque. For this reason, even injuries that aren't life-threating in themselves can prove deadly...
"In America, they bring only a penny"
--Perhaps you have already observed that in the White House, human life is cheap. The EPA has reduced the value...
Back on the Table
--Remember when Nancy Pelosi said that impeachment was "off the table"? Well lookee here: CBS News is reporting... Speaker Nancy...
Darn, these gnats are hard to swallow. Please pass the camels.
--Speaking as an editor, if I ever reject a submission by means of a spluttering fulmination about the depravity of...
Today's Captain Renault Award
--... goes to Attorney General Michael Mukasey:. WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Wednesday dismissed allegations of widespread polit...
Who won in New Hampshire?
--Belatedly I look at some of the results from the New Hampshire Recount. While the data is available on the...
The Libertarian Party: racism for smart people
--Thank you, Bob Barr, for reminding us that "libertarianism," as espoused in America today, is fundamentally about hating black people,...
Nothing Better Has Happened Since
--Today, July 7th, is the 80th anniversary of sliced bread. The Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, put pre-sliced bread...
The Corner of 4th Ave and 9th Street
--Promoted from Sidelights: Call for Entries: Your bright ideas are needed to redesign the intersection of 9th Street and 4th...
Where's Victor's Manuscript?
--Victor L. Martin, a prisoner in Elizabeth City, NC, has had his latest manuscript, 310 pages, confiscated, for "prison safety."...
The modern office: technological boneyard and slough of despond
--Ars Technica's Jon Stokes on "IT Consumerization and the Future of Work": [T]he cheap, ubiquitous transistors provided by Moore's Curves...
Thomas M. Disch, 1940-2008
--Ellen Datlow writes: I've just found out that Tom Disch committed suicide in his apartment on July 4th. He was...
Clarion West, crisis and response
--Tor employee and Clarion West attendee Theresa Delucci phoned me with this the night before last: the news, now spread...
Cold beef salad with preserved lemons and fresh basil
--Here's the setup: While working too fast in the kitchen late last night, put the plastic bag full of little...
One Simple Reason to Vote for Obama
--The US Supreme Court: John Roberts, age 55 John Paul Stevens, age 88 Antonin Scalia, age 72 Anthony Kennedy, age...
Hey, McCain and Obama!
--The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and...
Eat Shit and Die
--I don't often read books twice in rapid succession. I just did that with The Ghost Map: The Story of...
McCain, sockpuppets, and comment spam
--I swear, McCain's websites feel like every scrap of intelligence that goes into them is being charged for at retail...
Got it in one
--There's a reason everyone says Anil Dash is smart....
Where the Hell Is Matt?
--A film in which Matthew Harding dances, and is joined by other dancers. "Utterly wonderful," said Patrick after watching it,...
Open thread 111
--Ad tempus novum incipere....
Things that ought to be obvious
--Persons who are against political censorship and corporate malfeasance are not for that reason obliged to live their entire personal...
"No," he said apartmently
--Courtesy of the American Family Association, their AP feed, and ill-considered auto-replace: US Olympic sprinter Tyson Homosexual. (Via The Carpetb...
Consumer notes
--Rhapsody is easy to set up and easy to use, and (despite their recent troubles) arguably a good deal if...
I Can Has Cheezburger
--This being the summer, and therefore the Hamburger Grilling Months, I present the recipe that we're using here to Great...
If I Had Another Penny
--I first ran into "Byker Hill" on a Boiled in Lead album, Old Lead. This is the song that begins:...
Point, counterpoint, set, match
--Via Crooked Timber: the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain perform David Bowie's "Life on Mars" and, simultaneously, pretty much everything...
I Can See Your Lips Are Moving, I Can't Hear a Single Word You Say
--From the New York Times: The White House in December refused to accept the Environmental Protection Agency’s conclusion that greenhouse...
Unprecedented wildfires in California
--Estimates are that 842 separate wildfires are burning in California--and for once, they aren't in Southern California. The southernmost fire...
So close
--McCain aide Mark Soohoo, when asked to defend McCain for being computer-illiterate: “You don’t actually have to use a computer...
Shit!
--George Carlin is dead of a heart attack (“a gawddamned myocahdial infahction” as he once described an earlier attack) at...
Art links
--Rick Veitch has a new comic miniseries called The Art of War, part of his Army@Love series. The covers seem...
High On Life
--Dear Tristero: All that music you cite is outstanding. And I'm not personally eager to join Neal Pollack in messing...
AP to negotiate with sham "Media Bloggers Association"
--This weblog does not belong to the Media Bloggers Association. This weblog had never heard of the Media Bloggers Association...
The internet filters! They perform inadequately!
--Actual human beings over the age of 12 thought this campaign video was a good idea. Produced, of course, for...
A great day
--"May equality live long and prosper." (Photo via Nick Mamatas.) I was never much of a Star Trek fan, but...
The Associated Press: worse than merely foolish
--It's hard to believe the AP's recent behavior could be more odious than what's already been discussed, but on Boing...
The Red Cross is strapped for funds
--From the comment thread on Five Feet High and Rising:#120 ::: Edward Oleander ::: (view all by) ::: June 16,...
Secret Masters
--First Charles Stross, now Doctor Who: the very distinguished Paul Krugman continues to out himself as a gigantic science fiction...
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them
--The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from...
"The truth of a matter"
--Some advice from playwright and screenwriter Todd Alcott on writing dialog: To every extent possible, characters should not tell each...
John Scalzi Gives You Tomorrow's Punditry--Today!
--John Scalzi, June 7, 2008: I do think that when the dust settles what we’re going to find is that...
Five Feet High and Rising
--Flooding. Downtown Des Moines is being evacuated even as we speak. Included are all areas in Des Moines' 500-year floodplain....
An engine that runs on water?
--A Japanese company, Genepax, has announced and demonstrated a new fuel cell system that runs on water. No, really. Some...
"Dog-whistling so loudly that it's vibrating the windows"
--John Scalzi serves up the rantage, fresh and piping-hot. A classic, already being linked to from far and wide....
A precedent that will reach to himself
--Thursday, as you’ve probably heard by now, the US Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Guantánamo Bay do have habeas...
Slavery
--In America. Now. Here. Today. This is what we get for letting unions wither. This is what we get for...
What we can agree about--and what we can't (and shouldn't try)
--Two ways of making the same point. Both worth your time. Discuss....
Sumer Is Icumen In
--Yesterday it was 100 degrees in Manchester, New Hampshire. So it's time to remind folks that heat stress (hyperthermia) can...
Bush Lied, and Fred Hiatt Lied Too
--Currently stirring up the faithful in the right-wing blogosphere is this article in the Washington Post titled 'Bush Lied'? If...
Impeach Bush
--Thanks to Paula Lieberman for noting that Congressman Dennis Kucinich has read 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush on...
Obama and Healthcare
--According to the Boston Globe, Obama will be working with Elizabeth Edwards on a healthcare plan. Barack Obama announced in...
McCain Lies
--John McCain claims "I've supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the [Katrina] tragedy." This is a...
The Mall Ninja made visible
--I know I've linked to it before: LonelyMachines' Shrine of the Mall Ninja, which preserves a string of messages posted...
The power of storytelling...to make us stupid and crazy
--Bruce Schneier in the Guardian: What is it with photographers these days? Are they really all terrorists, or does everyone...
Open thread 110
--Today is one of twelve Date Unity Days* of the year. Now the Americans and the Europeans can relax and...
That sounds painful
--From The Politico: In April of last year, Drudge featured an image of a dark spot on the head of...
Just a lotta animals
--Several years back, I read about a rhesus monkey being given the gene for green florescence from a jellyfish. I...
Open thread 109
--Element 109 on the Periodic Table is meitnerium, first synthesized by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg in 1982; Mendeleev referred...
The Left Was Right All Along
--Uh-oh. Scott McClellan has written a book. It's called What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of...
"We did this. This is what we can do."
--From the Planetary Society weblog: a photo of the Phoenix lander descending to Mars, still hanging from its parachute, still...
Little Brother signing in NYC today
--Since the book has been much discussed around here, it seems like a good idea to announce that Cory Doctorow...
Insert Pink Floyd reference here
--We're sitting at the picnic table, J and I, keeping the remains of our lunch from blowing away. J's wife...
A dewdrop can exalt us like the music of the sun
--Robert Rossney explains how the galumphing prog-rock classic "Close to the Edge," performed to an audience of foot-stomping, fist-pumping parents...
At Least This One's Hetero
--Tired of Family-Values Republicans being outed as closeted gays? Now for something completely different: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A New York...
McCain Targets Obama
--Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama of inexperience and reckless judgment for saying Iran does not pose the same...
Life at Home with Nielsen Haydens
--T: What's that playing on the speakers in your office? It sounds great. P: Crooked Timber has a MySpace page,...
A Fast Note on Strokes
--Senator Kennedy (D-Mass) has apparently been flown to Boston due to stroke-like symptoms. I've been meaning to write a post...
Links
--All sorts of neat visual ideas in this collection of modern typography. Look: slab-serif Avant-Garde! And what’d these people...
Little Brother on the New York Times bestseller list
--Debuting at #9 in the kids' section, on May 25, 2008. At Tor, we're celebrating by finding security cameras, and...
Open thread 108
--Quoth Xopher, when willed to speak where what is willed may or may not be: 108 is the sacred number...
Be careful what you ask for
--The House Republicans have a new slogan: In a memo to be sent to Republican members today, the leadership hints...
Busted! Airleaf/Bookman Marketing and the Indiana AG
--My name is Carl Lau On the web, on the web, My name is Carl Lau On the web My...
A new holiday, rarely celebrated
--Today is Mother's Day1. Due to the complex interaction of the sun, the moon, and history, it also happens to...
Thoroughly spoiled Little Brother
--Discuss it here. Keep the rest of the threads safe for people who haven't read it yet....
Open thread 107
--Hey, look--it's an open thread that's guaranteed to have all its comments....
What's still broken?
--Overnight, Michael Roberts has restored the missing posts. As he says, restoring the comments will be a more challenging job,...
Restoration drama
--Our story so far, as documented over the last day and a half: here, here, here, here, here, here, here,...
Open thread 106
--The process of draining an entire lake started with the construction of a pair of dikes surrounding the lake. The...
"Where do people find the time?"
--I generally hate being read to, and prefer transcripts to watching video of public speakers, but this fifteen-minute Web 2.0...
Eric Clapton, White Power enthusiast
--The Observer looks back at the origins of Britain’s late-1970s “Rock Against Racism” movement, one of the things that made...
Teresa in the Observer
--With a piece on narcolepsy and writing, part of this weekend’s special multi-page Observer Review section on sleep. They did...
Feeling the Heat
--Earlier today, a fire broke out on the ground floor of a mattress factory in Casablanca, Morocco. It spread rapidly,...
SFWA election results
--Since, this time, they’re of interest even to many non-SFWAns: President: Russell Davis 330 Andrew Burt 53 Full results here....
Indistinguishable from parody
--It’s embarrassing to discover that string of comments you’ve been reading as intentional parody may have been serious. This has...
The Rather Difficult Font Game
--Just as it says: it’s a Rather Difficult Font Game. Have at it and tell us how you do. (Thank...
Live in San Francisco, it's TNH!
--And several other interesting people. David Pescovitz posts the details over at Boing Boing....
NBC News calls Penn for Hillary
--The game is going into extra innings…....
Little Brother
--In twelve days, Tor will release one of the books that, should I happen to be run down by...
Newsweek invents an alarming trend
--It’s much easier to make news sound exciting if you leave the facts out, as witness a recent story by...
Housekeeping
--I’m having trouble with my work email—stuff sent to patrick.nielsenhayden@tor.com or pnh@tor.com. Among other things, people are gettin...
Open thread 105
--From my shelves: You do not come to Euphemia only to buy and sell, but also because at night, by...
Could lead to goose-stepping
--Radley Balko reports that a group of his friends — young libertarians from the Washington DC area — met at...
Bury my acorns at Wounded Knee
--The silver and the russet-gold were fighting for the crown The silver beat the russet-gold all around town. Some gave...
A book by its cover
--Wow, this may be the most elaborate book cover treatment I’ve ever seen! It’s Jordan Crane’s cover for Michael Chabon’s...
Future of Publishing, Part 5,271,009
--Matthew Yglesias: The bad thing about bloggers writing books is that we torment you with nagging about the need to...
Don't Miss the Deadline
--A reminder: The ballots for the SFWA presidential election must be received by 19 April 2008. Mail early! And weigh...
Heads they win; tails we lose
--Centrist economist Howard Gleckman is alarmed by what's been happening to American capitalism: [F]or the past three decades financial engineers...
Some must employ the scythe
--Once again, a major implementation goes pear-shaped. On Thursday, March 27, Heathrow Airport opened Terminal 5 with great fanfare. It...
Pity the Times
--Yes, it's another attempt to re-invent book publishing. A fine thing. Experimenting is good. Many things about this industry seem...
Forty years gone
--He was a lot more interesting than the plaster saint he's been recast as. He was also a lot more...
Amsterdam
--I asked Abi Sutherland for directions from the airport. Longtime readers of Making Light will be unsurprised to see the...
Deep Value
--There is a view that modern technology leads to ever more complexity, to increasingly elaborate and advanced products, and furthermore,...
The photograph that terrorized London
--Taken at Spitalfields Market, 9:20 AM, Sunday, March 30, 2008. I liked the cartoony cloud-trail decorations seemingly supporting the...
Open thread 104
--China Mountain Zhang, Maureen McHugh (Zhang Zhong Shan speaking): "We're using mathematics as metaphors," I explain. "Science filters into the...
Divided by common errors
--From The Economist, a survey of British and American opinions that shows both similarities and differences between the two nations...
Going to need a bigger laser
--Next time anyone needs a great example of lasersharking, I can just point to the first half of this Paul...
Arthur C. Clarke, 1917-2008
--I've just got off the phone with NPR's Morning Edition. I suppose I'll find out tomorrow if I made any...
Just do it
--Sometimes there's a good reason that everyone's linking to something. Match It for Pratchett....
Literary Divination, A Parlour Game
--It's raining here in Amsterdam, the popcorn is popped and the fire is burning, and it's time for a game....
Open thread 103
--Written in 1976, by an author outwith the fannish community: But nothing defines an historical period like its vision of...
Open thread 103
--Written in 1976, by an author outwith the fannish community: But nothing defines an historical period like its vision of...
Phase one: collect underpants
--Yes, we're building a new web site, separate from our perfectly good corporate site. "We," in that sentence, being Tor...
Greyhawk's flags at half-staff
--From numerous sources, we have the sad news that E Gary Gygax has died. It’s hard to estimate the effect...
Can you read this?
--It's the niftiest puzzle I've seen in an age. If you don't want to decrypt it using normal methods, you...
All come singing
--I love watching what people do with YouTube. Throughout this campaign season, private citizens have been making political statements by...
Department of Who's Surprised?
--Attorney general declines to investigate Bush advisers WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday said he will...
Open thread 102
--I had a story idea this afternoon, kind of a mashup between the Brothers Grimm and Larry Niven. Chocolate Covered...
Hugos, 2008
--Those of you who regularly nominate and/or vote in science fiction's Hugo Awards probably don't need to be reminded, yet...
William F. Buckley, dead
--"The central question that emerges...is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as...
Art links
--If a ninja wanted to sneak up on you, would he wear something like this? (via) Game mod was...
And Then, The Fascist Octopus Sang Its Swan Song
--Leon Panetta, chief of staff for Bill Clinton from 1994 through 1997, being quoted by the New York Observer on...
Turkey is radically revising the Hadith
--Fragano Ledgister sent me this link, saying "I've a feeling that the US media won't pay much attention to this."...
Memorial
--A memorial service for Robert Legault will be held on Sunday, March 9, at the Beth Abraham Memorial Chapel, 199...
Cold Weather Drinks
--Hot Lemonade: In a coffee mug of normal size, place about 1/8 cup lemon juice (bottled ReaLemon works fine). Stir...
Leaves of Lettuce
--My inbox reminds me: there's something from the bookbinding world that I want to bring to your attention. There's no...
The Secret Service writes off security for candidates
--Here's the initial story: the Dallas police, who are more conscious of these issues than most municipal police forces, told...
Why Does Nader Hate America?
--Nader announced today that he's running for President. WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Ralph Nader is entering the presidential race as an...
Robert Legault
--I am stunned by the news that Robert Legault died of a coronary this past week. We just heard about...
Curating conversations (a meditation in the sunlight)
--Somewhere in the war between enthusiasm and cynicism, the content of Patrick's notes on the O'Reilly Tools for Change for...
And speaking of blog writers we can't get enough of
--Belle "Earth-II TNH" Waring: Sometimes I read old articles from the National Review and I think, where did that spirit...
I wondered where Michael Bérubé had got to!
--Here he is, on TPM Cafe, arguing with Reed Hundt: Yes, it’s possible...that "the Clintons will attack Obama in harsh,...
This can't be good for one's soul
--Once upon a time there was a book called Night Travels of the Elven Vampire, which was read and reviewed...
Bookhunter by Jason Shiga
--Imagine an action-packed police procedural, full of technical details like CSI, but all about bookbinding and library catalogs. Since this...
The Blog Posts, They Write Themselves
--US government to shoot down malfunctioning 5,000-pound spy satellite. Gosh, what could possibly go wrong?...
Birthday
--Happy birthday this coming Friday, Abi Sutherland! (Co-conspirators in the above image: Serge, Mary Dell, and a cast of...
False economies and either-ors
--Elise Matthesen elbows her way onto the front page of Making Light: We were discussing the comments of people who...
Sympathy for the Clintons
--It's grieved me to see the Clintons behave poorly. I figure they're going to behave worse before the election's over,...
Geolocating PNH
--In case any Making Light readers happen to be here, I should mention that I'm at the O'Reilly Tools for...
Those Clintons
--Not for the first time, Jim Henley, with whom I probably have a four-drawer file cabinet's worth of disagreements on...
