If any DVD release called for a theme party, this is it: ABC’s After School Specials!

I found the 2001 Futurama calendar, so I’m adding on to the Calendar Bonus Feature from previous:

Growing Up in Tier 3000 by Felix C. Gotschalk
The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
The Funhouse by Benjamin Appel
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Earthman, Come Home by James Blish
Free Zone by Charles Platt
Quarantine by Greg Eagan
Up the Line by Robert Silverberg
Steel Beach by John Varley
Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
Dragon Masters by Jack Vance
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Zen Gun by Barrington J. Bayley
The Drive In 2: Not Just One of Them Sequels by Joe R. Lansdale
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The Movement of Mountains by Michael Blumlein
Halo by Tom Maddox
The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess
Bill, The Galactic Hero by Harry Harrison
Crashcourse by Wilhelmina Baird
Immortality, Inc by Robert Sheckley
Snowcrash by Neal Stephenson
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

So I runs acrosst this mention of “Home Children” in Canada: more than 100,000 children sent to Canada during the Child Emigration Movement. I think, “Child Emigration Movement?” Sure enough, there’s a whole history of settling the colonies with orphan (or as orphan as they needed to be) children.

Many of the children were sent to “farm schools,” which lends a whole spooky air to the day care I attended of the same name (they had a sheep and some chickens).

I’d like to think any number of folks on any side of any religious question would find the Bush fish troubling.

A collection of Feynman’s letters has been edited and published by his daughter. The Grauniad has a selection.

HBO will be airing (cabling?) a sitcom written by and starring Louis C.K. Now starts my long wait for a DVD release, since it isn’t quite enough to make me buy an HBO subscription again.

43 Folders has some tips on concentration while studying.

Did I loan you the DVD of They Live? I can’t find it anywhere!

Arianna Huffington’s new site has a bunch of people I admire (and another several I have no particular feelings about) writing about things that matter to them, frequently with humor.

I can’t decide whether the problem with this logo is a figure-ground issue or something else. If I try hard, I can see it as the designer probably intended, but the initial impression is very penetrating.
Update: crap, the page has been pulled. I’m sure someone has a copy somewhere, but my cache no longer seems to have it.
More update: Ah, BoingBoing has come through