If the leader of your country decides not to raise taxes on alcohol, and you make brandy, what do you do?

The Bulgarians have this idea:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AQ35O20091127

...I'd say people would notice wood in their coffee, but it's coffee...

*flees from the coffee drinkers*

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AO3AN20091125

...on strike, what do you do? If you're Irish, this is the answer, apparently.

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AO3AG20091125

...why this man was withdrawing that much cash in the first place. Maybe they do things differently there...

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AN4T520091124

...the LHC.

No, I don't think it's going to destroy the Earth, or piss off God, or whatever.

But I do wonder if they will actually find anything...

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AJ3TQ20091123

Will the way the world works really allow us to *actually* recreate primeval conditions after so much has changed and developed?

I don't know.

...things that live in water, pretend to be logs and have big teeth.

Right?

Check this out.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AI3MV20091119

And hey, I just won a year's subscription to Dark Discoveries magazine. Woot!

Now back to work...

...this carries some hope for a lot of people.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AI0EJ20091119

Read Twisted Legends properly, at last. It's a nice collection...some creepier than others, of course, but decent overall quality. Quite happy...recommended to anyone who's obsessed with urban legends.

...a thousand pounds?

It's a useful service, but they're only getting away with charging so much because of who's going to use it.

(Why can't famous people give their kids normal names anyway?)

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5AG4BJ20091117

In other news, I got my copy of Twisted Legends yesterday. The cover art is really sweet (IMO). Quite, quite happy with it...it isn't going to be in bookstores, but Amazon and Barnes & Noble online have it.

What are the implications? Right now, I don't know. Is there enough to support a colony? Is a colony worth the incredible effort it would require.

All I know is that if one ethnic group colonizes, the rest will have to follow. It's eggs on the edge of the basket, and we need that diversity.

And, of course, the hotel on the moon would be pretty much inevitable...

...but the real issue.

Can we develop the moon without starting the first war in space? I fear not...

Queensmen ACCEPTED by the Library of the Living Dead for their 'Zombie Feary Tales' anthology.

Yes, they are spelling it that way. The reason should be obvious ;).

...these results.

Genetics, far more complicated than we originally thought and becoming more so all the time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5AA3J920091111

Well, actually, I knew turtles were sacred. But this little spat brings home the conflict that sometimes occurs between church and state...

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5A94IQ20091111

I don't feel sorry for the turtle. It's probably eating better than it ever has.

I'm glad these guys are trying again. Let's hope for better success this time.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5A90EB20091110

(Be glad. I could have decided to comment on lab grown...umm...male anatomy).

...is on the verge of being here. At least in some applications.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5A71IV20091109

Twisted Legends: Urban and Unauthorized, which contains my story 'The Child', has now been released by Pill Hill Press.

It is available (print format) from Barnes & Noble and Amazon online. (Fair warning: This one IS horror).

From Barnes & Noble:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780984261017
 
From Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Legends-Unauthorized-Anthony-Giangregorio/dp/098426101X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256742947&sr=8-3

...that blows nobody any good.

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5A44LS20091105

The AIDS virus.

Being used to save lives.

It says so much about how sometimes the most evil things can have within them...well, after all, what was at the very bottom of Pandora's Box?

...that Americans don't take marriage seriously, should just read this story:

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5A33XC20091104

...what WILL they come up with next?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5A24BR20091103

...only one flaw in this space hotel plan. Can you spot it?

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE5A151N20091102

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE59T4P120091030

Check out the name of the lake.

This is fodder for weird occult conspiracies.