Here are some of the things I’ve accomplished thus far or need to get done for our impending Big Trip to Great Britain: Air reservations American (fooey, coach. No agent deals available) Hotel reservations London Stow-on-the-Wold York Dublin Rail and transit Purchased Heathrow Express tickets online rather than burn a rail day Ordered Essential London Kit Britrail Flexi-pass Advised Stow hotel our arrival time Need advise London, York, Dublin friends of arrival times Need book York-Dublin in Britain L28 per person at station Home Front Book petsitter for Riley Stage packing items Need tidy Need make packing list Pack Gear…
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A giant decorative poseable spider from Costco. Plushy fur, not for outdoor display. Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Every one needs one By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 9 Aug ’08, 12.51pm CDT PST A giant decorative poseable spider from Costco. Plushy fur, not for outdoor display. Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: photo.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 9 Aug ’08, 12.11pm CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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Economist’s View: Paul Krugman: Know-Nothing Politics Another good phrase: “the party of stupid.”
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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…
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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…
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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.”
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Bob Cesca: Protecting McCain’s Ignorance with a ‘Great Wall of Duh’ Wow! I love that phrase. Gotta keep that one around.
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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…
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Next up, a free application shows the status of the London tube lines in a slightly different way… clean, simple, but there’s not a lot to it: Pretty straightforward – when you click the blue i for more information, you get: And that’s it – no maps, no routefinder, but more updates are promised in future versions – iTunes still shows version 1.0