Random, disconnected things. I think Halo 2 is quality because you can play it cooperatively, which is not only huge fun in and of itself but also nixes having to deal with overly competitive people, and it has clever characters and a setting that while not originally fleshed out, has become so. Hockey is a very, very, very violent sport; so it's cool, because you can't take little kids to cage fighting. The annual martial arts tournament that KoSho puts on was a success; we had people from several schools, even from Paradise Valley and Surprise, and a Shaolin group. And Anne McCaffrey's Harper Hall trilogy is noticeably kiddy in style, but perfect for one-shift reads in the ER.

-fine, but now I want somebody to cluster balloon across an ocean

-interesting but vaguely scary (via Wyatt)