So, I’ve been digging around on the “cult” section of the BBC’s website, and I’ve been finding all kinds of great stuff there. Today’s happy discovery is that they have a bunch of Sherlock Holmes stories up, written by some great British SF (and SF-ish) writers, including Jon Courtenay Grimwood (who I talked about earlier) and Paul Cornell (who wrote… Read more →
Day: January 20, 2005
An important resource for travellers
So, in the course of confirming today that dans les vignes du Seigneur meant what I thought it meant (it does), I found The Alternative Dictionaries, which describes itself as ‘ a collection of various forms of “bad language” from many languages.’ So, if you ever needed to know how that in Hungarian the colloquial form of ‘go to hell’… Read more →
