Today's online readings

Locus prize winning novella "Missile Gap" by Charlie Stross.
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.php/magazine/spring2007/fiction-missile-gap-by-charles-stross/

Fanfic: "Happy Father's Day, Harry Potter!"
http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/cragarrows/HFDHP01a.html

Passages in the Void
Deep time interstellar future without FTL or even fancy STL drives, and
a novel take on where you want to live for the long term.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757
and sequel
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/5/3/171611/0410

and finally, from the comment thread http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48062
"I don't need a Holy Symbol to Turn Undead. I'm a Paladin. I AM a Holy Symbol!"
Word.

Rushdie knighthood 'justifies suicide attacks'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,,2105748,00.html