Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

One of the delights of a big con like Eastercon is the dealers' room. This year's con Seacon had an excellent selection of dealers and books. Along with the wonder that is the BSFA tombola (5 tickets for £1, and an excellent chance of winning)...
( So what were this year's selections from the new and the old on the many stands? )
Twenty nine books in total (of which nine were hardcovers, ten were trades, and two oversize). Good job I'd taken the car...

(Oh, and if the numbers don't seem to tally, that's because one of the books was a compilation of two PS Publishing novellas, and I have entered them on the main list seperately...)

This photo and movie are an amateur shot of the ISS crossing the disk of the Moon on the 11th of April 2003. It's a little blob moving very fast, but still impressive considering the set up used...

(found via Oblomovka)

The Windows Media Player 9 LJ plug-in is now publicly available. If you're using WMP to play MP3s, and want to be able to detect music automatically from the official LJ Windows client or Semagic, then you'll want to download and install this.

...and he's not ashamed to admit it.

A triumphant Jeoffrey has just sauntered in yowling proudly and carrying a large slice of processed chicken in his mouth. The square watery stuff that we'd not let anywhere near our cix:gourmet certified kitchen...

Now, which neighbour do we need to go and apologise to?