Everybody loves Carny Lingo!

94 year old Red Cross volunteer and WWII ambulance driver, Marilyn Benemen, walked down to the hospital to help out those injured in the recent London bombing:
“Oh, when you’re Red Cross, you’re expected to do it. Oh, yes, if you’re in walking distance, I think you should turn up. And long as you can just soothe people down and an extra cup of tea, a spot of tea, yes–it’s a wicked, wicked thing, though. You say, `Well, the world’s got to go on. Everything’s got to go on. You can’t give in to these things.’ And so one presses on.”

Who’d have thunk it?

I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction.

The CDC has a Public Health Image Library (it was mentioned in some of the flu coverage that Craig linked to), and if they have to warn you about the content, you know it’s good!

Even Nicky Brendon is working (and with our favorite Ralph Fiennes-alike Bradley Cooper (the reporter best friend from Alias), no less). Lots of other Buffy/Angel alumni are mentioned in the article, too.

If only the purchase of this shirt somehow credited Joss with a beer or other tasty beverage of his choice.

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has declared a leap second for the end of this year, after which the difference between UTC and TAI will be 33 seconds. GPS-UTC will be 14 seconds.

H5N1 has started to spread among wild geese.

The LoC has a “web magazine” to guide you to cool stuff in their collections. Which I suppose I could do, too, were I not so busy goofing off with Corbis.

Wow, it’s all about sheds. In the UK, where a shed is really a shed.