Aargh. After reading this screed, which pretty much explains why I hate when Koreans ask me what my religion is (not even whether I have one, but which one I have), I was looking up the answer to whether Hitler actually was an atheist or not. It’s one of those things that niggles at one, […]
Want some free, legal MP3s? Live shows by all kinds of bands who don’t object to bootlegs? Look no further than here. Via a review at Blogcritics.org from way back when…
Last week’s Friday Five was a question I posed, rather unintelligibly: Our world is one in which many fully-literate citizens can be expected to know much more about entertainers than about the politicians who they’re told represent them in government. It’s easy for intellectual types like us Friday Fivers to dismiss pop stars, of course, […]
Richard Morgan is an SF writer who works with extremely violent plotlines and vicious, tough characters. But when I listened to this interview with him that I learned something very interesting about him: he used to be an ESL (EFL) teacher in Britain. In fact, he attributes the extreme violence in his writing to his […]
My CD-burner drive is about to be replaced by a DVD-burner. There’s a lot of crap on my hard disk, and I’d like to clear it off, but the machine is not cooperating, and I can’t quite tell whether it’s a hardware problem—just a faulty drive finally having given out—or a bigger problem with the […]