*sigh*

PM Palpatine and Mayor Harkonnen bond over subways.

Exit Dorchester

Nicked from ocelott in genre_reviews:

Dorchester Publishing, plagued by financial troubles for years and having recently divested itself of its remaining editorial staff, appears to be marching towards an ignoble end after more than 40 years in business. In a twist worthy of Dorchester's tortured road to collapse, the publisher's owner is the one foreclosing, on a personal basis, against the company itself, and will collect the proceeds from the sale of at least some of its property--raising questions about whether any assets will remain to pay creditors.

As pointed out to me some time ago

Vocaloid Hatsune Miku sings "Still Alive" from Portal.

Context and a question

Context

JAXA's solar sail mission IKAROS is still hibernating, and there's no way of knowing if the spacecraft will reawaken or not. They try to raise contact with the spacecraft once a month, with the last attempt being made on March 10; we can only wait to see if they'll succeed. What better time to release a theme song for the mission?

If NASA was to give its space probes theme songs, what genre should they be?

As pointed out over on Charlie's Diary

What happened to traditional Scottish conflict resolution, like that time Robert the Bruce stabbed the Red Comyn to death in a church in front of a bishop? But now apparently one cannot even head-butt a Tory as a opening salvo in a drunken rampage without the law getting involved.

MP Eric Joyce has been fined £3,000 and banned from pubs for three months after he admitted assaulting politicians in a House of Commons bar.

What would you say is

The most gloriously overproduced version of House of the Rising Sun?

Reminder

Midnight tonight is the deadline for Hugo nominations.