I pulled my RSS feed display for Make Magazine today because their feed is mucking up my UTF-8 charset document and it's not validating at the W3C's website. Stupid people.
I just found out about Postcrossing—much like Bookcrossing and its older relative, Geocaching, it's a social activity where you register (for free) and send postcards to people around the world, and receive postcards for those you send. Quite a neat idea, I'm going to try it out!
I just found out that one of my all-time favorite authors, Fred Saberhagen passed away at the end of June. His Science Fiction novels are great, as are his fantasy novels. He's one of the few authors that does both so well, even combined into the same story (read the Empire of the East books and the Swords series).
Fred will be sorely missed, and I'm saddened that a bright, creative light in the world is gone now.
One of the things that drives me nuts is hearing people chewing with their mouths open. I really hate that sound.