Oct 07 2009
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apple sues god, says fruit too similar to logo
@jr raphael has some fun at apple’s expense …
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“ So is there anything more to this book than just an excuse for sex in microgravity? Well, yeah, of course! It’s Charles Stross so it’s packed full of awesome original world building and mind blowing ideas
Oct 06 2009
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Brontosaurus - actually I’m testing google reader -> tumblr -> twitter -> friendfeed -> facebook pipeline.
Sep 24 2009
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“ ‘here’s to all of mum’s husbands past and present!’, that last one from a girl of 11, which caused three people at my table to choke on their champagne, one woman shooting it through her nose, which you hardly ever see.
Sep 22 2009
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“ …we would feel cheated if we found out that someone had won the New York Marathon by taking a subway, or had taken drugs in order to win any kind of race. We actually want to see authentic human achievement, we want to see it in the arts, and we want to see it everywhere in human life.
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“ The first you know of a mouse in the house is a blur of movement in the corner of your eye as you wonder aimlessly about the house. A few times, you think it is just a reflection but then these peripheral events start to take shape and with a feeling of dread your suspicions coalesce. Still you tell no one, not even your wife, especially not your wife. Maybe the mouse is just a one-off, an accidental interloper from the overgrown outside. But you start to keep an eye out for it.
Sep 03 2009
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Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Blog posts / Lena Headey Joins <em>Game of Thrones</em>. Very Interesting...
The Game of Thrones casting started with period-piece powerhouses (Sean Bean, Jennifer Ehle) and strong character actors who elevate their material (Mark Addy, Peter Dinklage), but the last few reveals have gone from uncannily perfect to television standard (we’re pulling ingénues from The Tudors? For real?), and I’m beginning to worry.
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“ its release unexpectedly marked the death of some part of me, and in monitoring the shift in my heart of Star Trek from a living, vital pleasure to a glass-encased museum piece, I got a bit lost in myself. It led to a summer’s worth of soul-searching about certain things…
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“ Invasion of Poland began this morning. Warsaw bombed. General mobilization proclaimed in England, ditto in France plus martial law.
