various links as promised to various people

xkcd -- for map of online communities

samandshiva -- chaos and carnage a speciality

my book review blog (there's an LJ feed but it only grabs the first 255 characters -- mostly because I'd rather get comments there than here.) The book I was recommending was The Stolen Child.

my (partial) giving-away inventory on BookMooch

my (less partial, also less up-to-date) giving-away inventory on LibraryThing

Amazon wishlist (I'm happy to trade used books for CDs from this list, in pretty much any condition: can get most of the books I'm after via BookMooch, but don't have a CD equivalent lined up yet and crave more music!)

EDIT: Paleo-futures blog -- futures from the past.

Mike Harrison wins Clarke Award; former administrator ecstatic

A moment...
Originally uploaded by tamaranth.

I don't think peake is really crying.

apologies for ghastly quality -- was being fifth-row fandom, and there were a lot of awful people an awful lot of people there -- but this just had to be posted