Holy cow, futurefeedforward lives! My inbox told me that "Socal Skyfires Torch Subprime Skytellites."

The airborne fires, some of which have burned for more than nine days, are fueled by thermobaric clouds of atomized landfill and other condensing nano-particulates disbursed into the upper atmosphere by disposal units commonly used in the county's tethered, low-earth-orbit neighborhoods. The roiling clouds of burning waste-vapor have been described by local witnesses as both "apocalyptic" and "breathtaking." "I mean, I've seen the entire rainbow in those fires," notes William Lennox, 43, a Plato Verde dentist and father of two. "The heat is incredible, and the smell, but the colors are really what gets you. The sky is literally burning, but the colors are just amazing."

They're also working on a novel.

If I had a dollar for every time I've said this over the past dozen odd years I'd have enough to money buy a sandwich, a bag of chips and maybe a chocolate chip cookie, but hooray! An Entirely Other Day is back.

You know it will be a good day when The Cold Inclusive posts more in the ongoing adventures of Jennifer Love Hewitt.  Today our protagonist is being interviewed alongside Cory Doctorow:

CD: I guess it depends on the kind of profit and how they’re profiting by it. I don’t get upset if a carpenter sells a bookcase to someone and makes money because that person needs somewhere to put my book. Even though that carpenter is benefiting from my labor.

JLH: You did not just say that. Cory honey, if you want to change people’s mind about something, you have to use examples from this planet to illustrate your point.

Oh. Hey. You just caught us blogging.

It shouldn't surprise any of you that this made me laugh out loud. (Via pasc.)

My God, I can't top linking to Webb. "You're very clever, young man, very clever.  But it's finite-state machines all the way down."

Thanks for playing, ladies and gentlemen, the official winner of the October 2007 edition of "the girl on a bike game" is miz_ginevra, who (un)knowingly takes the whole thing full circle.  (See, it's like when a stadium does the wave, and it makes it all the way around...oh, never mind.)

I've found the best twitter post ever. (Are twitter posts really called "tweets"? Seriously?) (Via this, in a kind of roundabout and meandering way.)

Apropos of nothing, other than being a sucker for these kinds of things, here's a video of Stacy Hedger in some unidentified beauty pageant playing trumpet to the Star Wars theme song (thanks, Mike!), which reminded me of Bill Murray doing Nick Winters singing the nightclub version.

Very nice: Hiding Information in an Image Histogram.

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