"Orphan's Tales" podcast

For those of you who loved Cat Valente's "The Orphan's Tales" books, or--even better--those of you who haven't read them yet (I'm looking at you, chadu), she's presenting a podcast of her reading the entire thing. See her post for details.

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I suppose I shouldn't laugh (and I do feel bad for the users who lost their content), but the Google ad on the right side of the page? Insult to injury, even if the injury in question was pretty much self-inflicted.

( D'oh! )

Backstory for those who missed it: Journalspace.com apparently lost all of their data recently because they were relying on RAID rather than doing regular backups of their database. (That's bad.) They're strongly implying that the initial data loss might've been sabotage, but who knows?