POEM MASHUPS!

I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen.
Of shoes, and ships, and sealing-wax
Of cabbages and kings.


Read the Tolkien poem this morning and promptly forgot everything past that line. Then my brain obligingly supplied the Carroll, and it weirdly fit.

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NE coast people: stay safe! I keep poking my nose at news.google.com and cnn.com to see what's going on.

(And in other weather news, I'm hoping Texas actually has a winter, unlike last year.)

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Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves

Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets, taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes. Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch … powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out the camera, and had hacked Android.”

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Cats that Look Like Pinup Girls. NSFW for classic cheesecake.

What is this I don't even

Of all the ridiculous things! From the Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, regarding their Paypal account being locked up:

Paypal has currently locked our account due to the name of the single note Iranian Galbanum. We are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Once Paypal is working again, please do not use the name Iranian Galbanum. If you wish to order it, just order Galbanum or Single Note Galbanum.

Sheesh.