I don’t know if it’s summer doldrums, the humidity, my back screwing around with me again or just general inertia. I’m struggling to go to work, get work done or even get through more than a few pages of the books I’m reading, let alone provide a real substantive post on anything. So, here’s a […]
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Having been gone for a few days, here’s a couple catch-up items: Ooops. An ad campaign for Iain Bank’s Hugo-nominated novel, The Algebraist, has bad timing. Posters promoting the book in London’s Tube, the site of recent bombings, described the book as “a perfect place to have your mind blown to smithereens.” (Via Blog of […] Two comments regarding the Roberts nomination. First, while it was fun to see the media and blogosphere blathering over the nominee who wasn’t (Edith Clement), it proves how good the Bushies are at disinformation campaigns. Second, let’s see a show of hands of those who think the timing of the announcement was linked to […] I found it interesting that Amazon shipped my kids’ copy of the new Harry Potter to the local post office, which, in turn, deposited in my mail box Saturday afternoon. I speculate that is because standard UPS shipments are not delivered on Saturday and, thus, the USPS was the most effective method of getting […] Blog line of the week candidate #1: “If we don’t blog about trivia then the terrorists have won.” — UK Author Ken MacLeod at The Early Days of a Better Nation. Blog line of the week candidate #2: “[A religion-oriented blog] is reporting that Neil Young and NPR are teaming up to kill God. […] |
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