The moon is small scale.
In the Red Dwarf books, the Cola wars escalated to the point that one of the sides (I believe it was, again, Coke) sent out a fleet of ships with bombs capable of inducing supernovae in stars at a pre-established distance from the earth, so that they formed "DRINK COCA-COLA" in the night sky in letters that could be seen even in the daylight.
The Flatiron ad, though, is almost as tacky. Bleh.
Bryan, I can think of an example closer to home, for the especially geeky part of the house, anyway.
Heart Cutter-outer...that's that guy that stands behind the catcher, right?
I'm currently reading Jo's Tooth and Claw (and enjoying it muchly), and Jordan's New Spring (which I finally found used).
Nifty. Looks like I have some cousins doing what looks to be some pretty groovy research. That's cool.
Chris, in case you missed the implications of my last post, there, a substantial portion of this blog's regulars, including its host, are at the WorldCon for the next 4 or 5 days. IOW, someone knowledgeable may pop in with a response...but it could be a bit.
Oh...WorldCon! That started, didn't it? I was wondering why everything was so quiet today...
Avram, as is pointed out in the text of that link, those are multiple camel spiders holding on to each other. It's amazing to me how many people don't see that the moment they look at it.
I've often considered whether I should use a pseudonym in my theoretical future publishing career, largely because I feel sorry for future readers trying to pronounce the author's name, and all the ways in which it might be mangled. Trust me, spend some time as a Langlinais and you'll learn some fascinating mispronunciations. Now, if I can just get companies to stop thinking my first name is Evans...
Oh, and BTW, I've updated my homepage to the point where I no longer mind linking to it on various blogs and whatnot, but I just realized that in doing so I've removed most references to my real name. I'll have to fix that...
Skwid, here. That's me. I go by that online and off. The only people that always call me Evan are my boss, my grandmother, and telemarketer scum. My wife calls me Skwid. Seriously.
I don't bother linking to my homepage 'cause it hasn't been redesigned since 1997 and I'm not too proud of it, but if you Google "skwid" I'm hit #1...and I should hope it's patently obvious that the same character is posting here as you can see there.
For those who missed its front page appearance, the typo in question can now be found in the National News section.
PNH, amusingly, I didn't see the "Paris" typo on first scan...but I saw it out of the corner of my eye when I got to the second line.
We're coming dangerously close to a redux of the "Spelling Gifted" conversation from way back when on Making Light...
Wow. Speaking of the New York Smite, check out what I just got off their front page:
Now I haved seen it all.
Bad day for proofreaders, I guess...
Here's one I found recently and particularly enjoyed...Prime Publishing (about whose business I know nothing), has a typically obnoxious Flash intro on the above website. The opening text (with sentimental electric keyboard chords pleading in the background) is as follows:
"Call us If you need our help. Prime Publishing Service. When You Image is Critical"
Uh-huh. I'll get right on the phone, 'cause I Image are Critical.
I love my state, I really do. I'm proud of so many aspects of Texas...but I sure do hate a whole lot of Texans.
FWIW, I was raised in a UU church, and right now I'm so pissed off I could spit.
At the same time, I have to agree in part with Heresiarch...please don't cut me off to spite my jackass neighbours...
I make coasters out of them.
No, real coasters, really!
How about "Books Unmade?"
A wide enough interpretation would allow that to include both those books that have not been published for various reasons, and those books which were published in folly for the reasons that have been (and might otherwise be) enumerated.
In case anyone goes looking for the original article, it's been archived in Scifi.com's back issues' archive.
Also on the list, Beware by Panjabi MC, which has the unlikely MTV hit "Beware of the Boys (Mundian to Bach Ke)" (Love that Knight Rider sample!).
Of course, I might be the only Electrolite-reading Bhangra hip-hop fan...but I do recommend it.
There's an anecdote (possibly apocryphal, I certainly have no source) that Houston, though publically against the laws that were being passed by the State legislature about cities only being able to expand their boundaries beyond a certain radius of their current borders, was surprisingly quiet about it all. Then, once said laws were passed, it was revealed that the city had quietly purchased the medians of every major road leading out of it, effectively extending its legal expansion radius far beyond what would otherwise have been allowed.
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