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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 about Strokes and Head Injuries (sometime after the long-delayed Trauma And You, Part IV), and this isn't going to be it. It'll just be a few quick notes. You have two... Read more...
Published 1 hour ago

Links
All sorts of neat visual ideas in this collection of modern typography. Look: slab-serif Avant-Garde! And what’d these people do to piss Teresa off? (via Kottke) How food portion sizes have changed over the past twenty years, also via Kottke. I noticed a decade or more ago that my capacity... Read more...
Published 18 hours ago

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 shooting them out. Read more...
Published 2 days ago

Open thread 108
Quoth Xopher, when willed to speak where what is willed may or may not be: 108 is the sacred number of Hinduism. A Hindu mala is a string of 108 beads (usually with a flag bead, not used in counting) for counting recitations of a mantra; Hindu deities have 108 names; the dance of Shiva Nataraja... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

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 at a new slogan building on the change message that has already been shown to have political resonance with a public unhappy with the nations direction. It looks like Republicans will... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

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 name is Carl Lau And a-spamming I did go To gull writers of their dough On the web, on the web To gull writers of their dough On the web. (Tune: Captain Kidd) Long-time readers of Making Light will remember The... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

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 be Pentecost2. This conjunction can only happen when Easter is as early as possible in the calendar. It is proposed, therefore, that the common theme of these two holidays be combined... Read more...
Published 6 days ago

Thoroughly spoiled Little Brother
Discuss it here. Keep the rest of the threads safe for people who haven't read it yet. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Open thread 107
Hey, look--it's an open thread that's guaranteed to have all its comments. Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

What's still broken?
Overnight, Michael Roberts has restored the missing posts. As he says, restoring the comments will be a more challenging job, albeit one helped considerably by the work of Chris Sullins, who converted the missing threads into a form that will be easier to inject back into the database. Both... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Restoration drama
Our story so far, as documented over the last day and a half: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. Short version: Our server fell over hard. Smoke came out. Disks and motherboard did what all hardware eventually does. Which was a great time to discover that the backups I'd been... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Open thread 106
The process of draining an entire lake started with the construction of a pair of dikes surrounding the lake. The space between the dikes would become the canal from which the drained water would eventually flow to the sea. A large network of windmills was constructed around the perimeter of... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago