it’s about time

Watch Neil Gaiman read The Graveyard Book on a 9-city video tour. At each stop on the tour, Neil will read one chapter from The Graveyard Book. Beginning on October 1st, we will post the video readings daily. By the end of the tour, on October 9th, you will be able to watch the master storyteller himself read The Graveyard Book in its entirety right here.

how excellent!!!!

Rap music originated in the medieval taverns of Scotland rather than the mean streets of the Bronx and Brooklyn, an American academic has claimed.

In this guide I will describe you how to backup your DVDs under Linux. I will use k9copy, which is an open source program. k9copy supports Video compression for fit onto a 4.7GB single layer DVD (just like dvdschrink does), xvid, x264 and mpeg-4 compression as well as it has options for selecting the menus, audio and subtitles you like. Let's move on to the installation and use part.

How weird a year was it?
Here's how weird:

• O.J. actually got convicted of something.

• Gasoline hit $4 a gallon — and those were the good times.

• On several occasions, Saturday Night Live was funny.

• There were a few days there in October when you could not completely rule out the possibility that the next Treasury Secretary would be Joe the Plumber.

fowr teh washun uf teh harez

Divorce, drunkenness and in one case the desire to be legally recognised as Mr Happy Adjustable Spanners led record numbers of Britons to change their name this year.

Wow your scientist friends and colleagues with the coolness of this piece of knitted art. The frog is hand knit from a silk/wool blend, and his little innards are needle-felted by hand out of 100% wool. He comes pinned into his wooden 8 x 10 inch frame, but he is not glued down, so you can take him out and cuddle him if you wish. The backing material for this frog is matte black.

We have in our minds an idealised vision of Christmas: all rosy-cheeked angelic children singing carols while the picture-postcard extended family gathers around the tree. Well, this must exist in some parallel universe, because what I discovered is that this picture is no more Victorian than I am. The Victorian traditional Christmas turns out to have been just a myth.

Designers and developers in particular get a lot of love from the AIR community with tools to help them with just about every aspect of their jobs. Here are over 30 great Adobe AIR apps for designers and developers that can help you do everything from tracking your time to measuring pixels, and more.

ABC is saying that they'll be "fast tracking" the latest Doctor Who Christmas Special, where viewers discover the identity of the new Doctor. The episode will screen on Christmas Day in the UK, while in Australia, fans will be able to enjoy the episode just one month later on January 25.

In the past year, Twitter has exploded; more and more users are joining and finding new ways to stay connected to the service 24/7. Here are over 35 Twitter resources for your iPhone, G1, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile device, smartphone, or basic cell phone.

This list isn't a compendium of the worst names of all time—or a statement on the quality of their music—just the ones we encountered this year. New for this year: Asterisks next to our favorites. Who's ready to rock?

for once,music is appropriate. and like a homecoming.

I LOVE this book. Ok, I love ALL Paulo's books - what gifts!

As speculation grows about who will be the next Doctor Who, the show's Christmas special will offer a glimpse of the Time Lord's past.
Every incarnation of the Doctor will make an appearance in the hour-long Christmas Day programme.

COME ON SA - get your act together, Victoria is beating us in sensibility!!!
VICTORIAN state primary school students will soon be able to take religious education classes which teach there is no evidence God exists.
The Humanist Society of Victoria has developed a curriculum for primary pupils that the state government accreditation body says it intends to approve, The Sunday Age newspaper reported.