This is What The Future Looked Like in my Head

From APOD (and via the ever-useful jaylake) the perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when I was thirteen.

Why Didn't I Know I Loved Daniel Radcliffe?

In which he introduces a British TV audience to Tom Lehrer.

I did miss the last bit, but it may be nation-specific.

ETA(By which I meant "these are the elements as they are known to Harvard and there may be many others but they haven't been dis-cah-verd." Somehow I can't figure out how to make either Cambridge or Oxford rhyme in a useful way.)

Inspiration is Where You Find It...

I'm trying to write journal pieces now and then over at my sarahtolerance.com site. Today I remember a book I read as a teenager that totally irritated me, and how it wound up affecting my take on Miss Tolerance's life and situation. If you're interested in that sort of backstage info, it's here.