One of the best definitions of Bipolar I’ve ever heard

“Imagine having a mood system that functions essentially like the weather — independently of what’s going on in your life. So the facts of your life remain the same, just the emotional fiction that you’re responding to differs. It’s like I’m not properly insulated — so all the bad and the good ways that you [...]

Happy birthday, Sam I Am!

A tribute in verse from GNews: It was 50 years to the day, That Green Eggs And Ham went on display, It was written by beloved Dr Seuss, Whose oft-rhyming characters were let loose, Seuss was challenged in the form of a bet, A limit of only 50 words was set. Crafty Dr Seuss managed [...]

“Who Will Write Our History” by Samuel Kassow

If Anne Frank’s diary made an impression on you, you’ll be overwhelmed by American historian Samuel Kassow’s “Who Will Write Our History?: Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto.”  In 1940 50 Polish Jews, confined in the Warsaw Ghetto, began a project of recording the Nazi atrocities as they happened, eventually burying 10 boxes [...]

Rappin’ with the Cat in the Hat

Not Dr. Dre — Dr. Seuss!

Twilight, anyone?

Le Stat would never sparkle.

A children’s guide to nip, tuck

I’ve had this story from Newsweek open in my browser since it first came across my Bloglines on Tuesday, unsure of how to approach it. I have serious body image problems and while intellectually I reject the idea that women must erase imperfections and signs of aging to be considered attractive, on an emotional level [...]

Resurrecting the undead

Lestat lives! For all of us who refused to give up hope after Blood Cantical and Anne Rice‘s fervent conversion to Christianity, the reward for our faithfulness may be in sight. In a surprising reversal from her vow to only “write for the Lord,” Ms. Rice spoke with Time Magazine about returning to her literary [...]

Quote of the day

“How do you expect me not to conspire?” Aŕena would ask his judges. “Everyone is conspiring these days. There is plotting in the streets, plotting at social gatherings, plotting at every crossroads, plotting in public squares.” And Fouchè himself would say, to prod Bonaparte out of his apathy regarding conspirators, “The air is full of [...]

A crash course

Meta Filter asks: “What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?” I’d have to say CSS Web Design For Dummies, followed up by PHP and MySQL for Dummies, from which they can learn enough to really eff things up. Then I’d send them on a visit [...]

If you like LOL Cats …

… you’ll love these LOL fantasy book covers by Jim C. Hines. Via Steve Leigh, whose book Holder of Lightning (under the pseudo S.L. Farrell) is at the top of the page.

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