PSA

Remember, folks, it's Peep season!

brief PSA

I’m currently reading through Volume I and Volume II of Titanic: the Ship Magnificent; both volumes, while expensive, are magnificently well-researched, with copious illustrations; having read roughly forty books on the subject (as opposed to innumerable works of fiction that are completely or partially set upon the ship)- if you’re looking for references novels on the Titanic, look no further. (Volume I deals with the construction of the ship itself; Volume II deals with interior fittings and decorations.)

Boosting the signal

Cut n’ pasted from mhael, in spacexploration:

NASA is letting people vote on the name of the new Space Station Node, and currently "Serenity" is leading by a landslide. But our girl might have some new competition from host Stephen Colbert, who last night urged his viewers to write in his name in the Suggestion Box. So head over to NASA and help make sure our Lady flies!

(Not that Stephen Colbert isn’t absolutely ginchy, mind you...)

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almeda writes:

The most surreal thing I ever participated in, as a disability-assistant at O'Hare, was a woman in a wheelchair flying with her pet duck.

Big white duck, like in Charlotte's Web and other fine set-on-farms fiction. In a duffel bag. Wearing a harness, with a little leash clipped to it, and a diaper.

He was exceedingly interested and pleased with everything he saw, his head swivelling from side to side as I pushed his owner down the concourse towards baggage claim, making little half-swallowed 'quackquackQWAAquackquack' comments to himself under his breath.

(Via matociquala’s LJ.)