Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt

I want an invisible fridge! See other transparent appliances at gizmodo (via GeekPress).

GeekPress warns me that my kitchen may soon be raided by the Sushi Police. I don’t think I’ll do too well; although I make no Korean food I do have a lot of Mediterranean fusion going on right next to the sushi roller…

It’s a microwave egg boiler, guaranteed to prevent explosions!

I could spend all of November just researching my NaNo novel, and now that I’ve discovered the Boston Public Library has online JSTOR access I may do just that. I think JSTOR will let you search and read the first page of articles even without access.

And yes, I really do need to know about A Sequence of Vowel Shifts in Phoenician and Other Languages in order to meet today’s NaNo quota. Really.

I followed a NaNo forum post to this article on inventing your own naming language, and discovered to my surprise that the origin of the name “Boston” is Botwulf’s Stone. Who knew?

See BoingBoing or go straight to the close-up for the year’s best Halloween costume.

No, not here at Jemima’s Chevron. After our migrant summer, ficml.org is back up for good. No, it’s NaNoWriMo difficulties that have the spinning Safari spinner (not the rainbow pizza pie, but the daisy spinner on the tab) spinning in vain.

The load of new novelists is always an early-November stress on the NaNo back end. Maybe Google will buy them out and devote some high-powered servers to the cause of updating one’s word count every 15 minutes…