Top Posts
For those of you who are interested in seeing some of our more interesting or popular posts, here they are sorted by category.
Most Popular
- LOLTrek and the one-off LOLHouse joke.
- Rubik’s Companion Cube, or How to Make a Custom Rubik’s Cube
- How to Disassemble a Toilet in Many Easy Steps
Science Stuff
- Science Unfair, in which Stephen is enraged by an intelligent design science fair project that he saw when he was a science fair judge.
- I Have Stuff in Orbit, in which Stephen mentions that some stuff he built is even now circling the earth.
- A Physicist Grumbles About Jericho, in which Stephen uses the TV show Jericho to explain how nuclear weapons work.
- A Physicist Grudgingly Admits That Jericho Got EMPs Right, in which Stephen uses the TV show Jericho as an excuse to talk about how electromagnetic pulses work.
- EMP Q&A, in which Stephen follows up his discussion of electromagnetic pulses with some questions-and-answers about EMPs.
- Science Merit Badges, in which we find out which ones Stephen is eligible for.
- Pregnant Mothers Versus Fish, in which we look at how much fish pregnant mothers can safely eat.
- Two Notes on Statistics and MBAs, in which we learn that some MBA students don’t understand statistics.
- Citizen, Please Report to Room 101, in which we discuss the proliferation of video cameras observing nominally public places.
- Praise That Does More Harm Than Good, in which we learn that praising children is not necessarily the best way to motivate them.
- Object Permanence is Maybe Not So Permanent, in which we discuss when kids know that objects continue to exist even when they can’t see them.
- Autism and Vaccines, in which we investigate the tenuous link between vaccines and autism.
Books are for Reading
- Speculative Fiction Authors Considered As High School Students, in which we slot SFF authors into high school cliques.
- A Procrustean Approach to Science Fiction, in which we get annoyed at the Mundane SF movement.
- Happy International Pixel Stained Technopeasant Day, in which Stephen releases one of his non-fiction works in honor of the former SFWA vice-president and links to his favorite stories from the day.
- Cataloging Our Stuff, in which we look at four programs for cataloging our books.
- Cataloging the Granade Library, in which we learn that as of early 2007 we have over a thousand books.
Fandom
- Blogsight and how Fans Overestimate Their Importance, in which we look at how fans of TV shows and the like think they have more influence than they do.
- Qualities of Experience and Logical Consistency, in which we discuss how SFF fans have different requirements for logical consistency in media.
- Making Videos for Dragon*ConTV , in which Stephen talks about making spoof SFF videos for the annual Dragon*Con convention.
- Making Bumpers for Dragon*ConTV, in which Stephen talks about making Adult-Swim-style bumpers for the annual SFF convention.
Book Reviews
- Shopgirl; The Myth of You and Me; The Quilter’s Apprentice; Jesus Rode a Donkey.
- Mudhouse Sabbath; Searching for God Knows What.
- Walking the Bible; Spin.
- Me Talk Pretty One Day.
- The Devil Wears Prada.
- The Android’s Dream.
How To
- Faking Knowledge Using Google and Wikipedia
- Rubik’s Companion Cube, or How to Make a Custom Rubik’s Cube
- Choosing A Barbeque Restaurant
- How to Argue Badly in Many Easy Steps
- How to Put Flash Videos On Your Blog in Many Easy Steps
- How to Disassemble a Toilet in Many Easy Steps
- Adding Quicktags to WordPress and to the TinyMCE Editor for WP Plugins Authors in Many Easy Steps
Thoughts on Media
- Portal Was a Triumph
- Katamari Damacy Would Totally Roll Up Tasty Planet
- Why Project Runway is Superior to Top Chef
- Narbonic Rocks My Socks
- Ben Edlund is Crazy in a Good Way
- Jonathan Coulton Makes Great Music
General Opiniony Stuff
- The Five-Paragraph Essay Considered as Kudzu, a Shoebox, a Crutch, and Training Wheels
- Being Racist, Being Angerist
- Progress Isn’t Completion (racism in SFF)
- Granade’s Laws of Online Discussion
- Comments on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
- Dentistry, Health Care and Bildad the Shuhite
- Flair of the Spirit
- Better Dressed, for scientists and engineers
- Guitar Hero v Kidz Beats
Making Stuff
- Kindermusik business cards Misty designed.
- Presidential pardons for everyone to commemorate the passing of Gerald Ford.
- Birthday cards with frogs on.
- Misty confesses her addiction to cross-stitch.
- Office shelves.
- A concert poster and two cards.
- Hand-decorated notebooks.
Personal Musings and Family Stuff
- The Haves at the Have-Not Flea Market
- Liza Red in Toothless Maw
- Living In Print
- Simon Cowell Reviews My Son’s Music Class Performance
- We Had Been Pregnant
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be
- Queen Mommy Learns Something New
- Limbo
- Pondering…One-Sided Relationships
- Old Friends
- To Liza on Her First Week Anniversary
- To Eli On His Third Birthday
- To Eli On His Second Birthday
- To Elijah On His First Birthday
- To Elijah On His First Week Anniversary
- The Eli Lexicon
- Eli and Sam Talk Into the Microphone
- Two Car-Related Things
- Notes on How to Soothe a Newborn Baby
- Eli Crate Training
- What We Do During Advent
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