WordRidden

Bye-bye, Pioneer 10. Godspeed.…

Today is my Oma’s birthday! (For the uninitiated, my Oma is my grandma. When I was little, every time I tried to say "grandma", it came out "Oma" instead, and the name stuck. Coincidentally, Oma is the German word for grandma, so…

As a follow-up to yesterday’s blog entry about ready.gov, I thought I’d point out two more funny responses that make great use of the brilliant images from the Department of Homeland Security site.…

As much as I love my iMac, I would kill to have a computer that looked like this.…

My daily trip to MetaFilter today pointed me in the direction of ready.gov ("Don’t be afraid…Be ready"), the Department of Homeland Security’s website for concerned citizens wondering if they really should be out buying duct ta…

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions as such, but this winter I did kind of decide that one of my goals for 2003 should be to learn how to bake bread.…

Jeremy and I get some Lord of the Rings-style culcha.…

I’m sitting here listening to my newly purchased Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack and practically panting with excitement at the thought that in just three days I will be going to see this: the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing the Fellowship o…

Oh for pity’s sake - first the West Pier collapses, and now the Palace Pier goes up in flames. What’s going on here?…

I’ve already written a longer article about the Columbia disaster, but in trawling MetaFilter I came across something that I thought should be shared.…

Slipping the surly bonds of Earth.…