Charlie Stross, he who writes SF that makes your brain hurt (in a good way) has posted an interesting “conspiracy theory.” To use one of his shorthand descriptions, we can blame William Gladstone for the mess in Iraq today. Since Gladstone died more than 100 years ago, go read Charlie’s blog entry to find […]
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A few recent odds and ends now that the Thanksgiving and snow break have ended and I’ve looked at something other than a book: I’m a big fan of Wikipedia. Now comes Wiktionary and it looks quite intriguing. Now I just need Firefox to add it to the options for its search box so I […] Although I haven’t checked extensively, so far one of the better analyses of the Padilla indictment I’ve seen in the blogosphere is at Discourse.net. From Tuesday’s WaPo (registration required…or BugMeNot): The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, […] A few items of interest as I get caught up on periodicals and being away from my newsreader for a few days. The Atlantic is quickly becoming one of my favorite magazines. Just the first several pages of this month’s issue (not the cover story or the features) includes: an excellent column on how the […] A few quick notes while attending the state AA volleyball tournament: Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking won the National Book Award for nonfiction. It remains in my TBR pile and has in fact moved down in the stack as there’s a couple books since received which I have committments to review. Willaim T. […] |
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