Via a knit/geek friend (and I see knitmeapony 's picked it up as well), Empire magazine celebrates its twentieth birthday with...well, a 2009 revisit of some films. Seriously fun. Besides this absolutely brilliant Silence of the Lambs shot (seriously, if you look at ONE of these...) here are a few favourites. Open in a new window, they do auto-resize, which is annoying. Sam Neill Laurence...

I can't even...I literally cannot form the words to comment on this except, SERIOUSLY? OTHER SPECIES ??? More brilliant social and scientific commentary from the geniuses at Fox News . (Thanks--I think--to knitmeapony for the link)

Just had dinner with my friend Kat. She's been having a bit of a rough time as of late (step-father died last week and is dealing with his greedy kids, etc., etc.). In an effort to make her laugh after we finished eating, wolfshark read her a post that had us both cracking up with laughter this morning when we first read it: Quick background : Thread is from Fandom...

knitmeapony pointed to this blog article at the Shakeville blog [ shakes_sis ], pointing to Paul Campos's piece on the fat hatred, prejudice, and ignorance permeating discussions of whom Obama should nominate to replace the retiring Justice David Souter: Within hours after the news broke that Souter was resigning, concerns arose that [former Harvard Law School dean and current Solicitor...

If so, do I have the grill for you! (thanks to knitmeapony for the link)

London Daily Photo A photo a day of London. Quirky, beautiful and well worth a look. Even if you haven't seen Watchmen ... take a look at exhibits 'B' and 'F' . Utterly *awesome* (hat tip to knitmeapony for the heads up. Also, I could not have been the only person who was wanting to know if Bubastis made the cut?! Wasn't she *adorable?!*. Couldn't give a toss about the squid - I...

changed layout and default userpic. i haven't seen this layout before, it might be new, but it is *perfect*. the picture reminds me of kurt halsey (who incidentally, i've been meaning to make icons of his art for just ages now, ugh) and it is just love. but the lengthy style-selection process did remind me of the layout i'd planned and begun oh, god, back last summer maybe, and i'm going to get my...

here . Thanks to knitmeapony for the link.

How long will it take your portfolio to recover from this financial Armageddon? Check out the NYT's cool calculator : just punch in how much your portfolio was worth at its peak, its current value, how much you contribute on a regular basis, and play with the annual return. It generates a nice Times-quality graph of how long it's going to take you to get it all back, and what the outlook is for years...

Halfway there! Today's topic at 14valentines is domestic violence . I don't have anything specifically geared toward this topic, so here are some women-centric fic recs (all HP). Unlike the ones from the other night, most of these are non-porny. ;-) As with the the other set, most some of these have been recced here before and others are new. In the Turning by casirafics ...