• Clan: McTiVo - SciFi/Fantasy

    Brilliant but Cancelled: Top Ten SF Series

    Yeah, I had to see if Earth2 was on this list. Not. Darn thos Philistines at SciFi Wire. Wire’s Top 10 Brilliant But Canceled 1. Firefly, created by Joss Whedon. Fox. Original run: September 2002 to August 2003. Number of episodes produced: 14 A completely valid and worthy choice. I don’t own a Browncoat in real life, but I’d sure wear one in Second Life. And I’ve hung out at a Firefly-inspired bar inworld, too. 2. Wonderfalls, created by Bryan Fuller and Todd Holland. Fox. Original run: March 2004 to December 2004. Number of episodes produced: 14 Sorry, didn’t watch…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Stately Moans: Successful Event Planning (Except For Ducks)

    Thank goodness Doris is back on the blogbeat, recounting the triumphs and challenges of stately manor management… and the possibility of committing nursery crimes, encountering ducks bent on debauchery, and the utter indispensability of a Lovely Warden. Stately Moans: Successful Event Planning, the Stately Moans Way I hastened to reassure bemused visitors and volunteers alike that we did not actually erect the marquee in the moat and that it must have blown in. After the tenth repetition I got bored with that and started telling people it was for a duck wedding instead. Well, it was a lovely party, except…

  • Geek Out!

    O Rly? Guess I better delete that Facebook group then…

    Jack Myers – JackMyersMediaBusinessReport.com – U.S. Will Never Become a Mobile-Centric Culture, Argues Third Screen Media Founder Tom Burgess In an exclusive interview with JackMyers Media Business Report, Burgess argues that although Apple’s iPhone has dramatically changed the American mobile market, it is unlikely the U.S. will ever become a truly mobile-centric culture. Darn, I guess the group I created on Facebook the other night will never get off the ground: I called it “My iPhone Has Been Permanently Grafted To My Body.”

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Hot Off The Presses

    The Economist Covers The Anglican Angle

    The Anglican Communion | The high price of togetherness | Economist.com On the brighter side from the Communion’s viewpoint, some Americans who went to Lambeth do now have a better sense of the social and political constraints on bishops in traditional societies. One African bishop recalls that after news reached his country of the gay-friendly stance of America’s bishops, a senior Muslim asked him, in bewilderment, whether he too had ceased to be Christian. “I came to understand as never before that there are places and cultures where it is not possible to discuss [homosexuality],” said Bishop Jeff Lee of…