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Charlie Jade

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Hmm. What to say about Charlie Jade? It’s a freaky little SF show you’ve probably never heard of. I hadn’t, until Preston mentioned it in his blog. I was intrigued enough to go looking for the episodes. They were surprisingly easy to come by, given that the show has never aired in the US and [...]

Book reviews: Greywalker

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007

I’m going to try to remember to actually review the books I’m reading instead of just mentioning them in passing. We’ll see how long this resolution lasts, but in the meantime, here’s what I thought of Kat Richardson’s Greywalker.

This is yet another entry in the urban dark fantasy genre. Its premise is a little different: [...]

Music recommendations again

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

To everyone who liked Anna Nalick: try KT Tunstall, Tina Dico, and Over the Rhine. Excellent stuff, if you go for altos-with-guitars (and of course I do). Anything else in that vein I should check out? I’m always on the hunt for things I can sing to on the way to work.

Anna Nalick has a [...]

Recommended: His Majesty’s Dragon

Friday, March 31st, 2006

So I said I’d be posting recommended stuff, and here’s the first: His Majesty’s Dragon, by Naomi Novik. This was already out in the UK (as Temeraire) and has been getting a fair amount of buzz on my friendslist, so I snapped it up when it came out on Tuesday.

DAMN, y’all, this is a good [...]

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Blockbuster CEO Doesn’t Understand the Fascination With Netflix — ‘Equally bewildering to Mr. Keyes is the emphasis on catalog size. Why would anyone want to watch anything other than new releases, he wonders. “I don’t care how many movies are available to me. As my personal taste as a customer, I want to watch the new stuff so whether we have 10,000 movies or 200 movies doesn’t matter if I don’t want to see any of the movies that we have . . . our assortment is heavily weighted toward newer releases and mainstream staple titles.”’ And that is why I no longer go to Blockbuster, you idiot. Because I saw the new releases in the theater, thanks very much, and I like watching old stuff that I’ve never seen. You know, on this nifty archival disc format we have. (via DF)

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Lenovo’s ad with the two guys in the airport is absolutely hysterical. (For all the people here not watching NBC’s Olympic coverage.)

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Writing a novel, a love story — so very true. I think you all know which stage I’m in….

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The Shire is in foreclosure! — anybody up for establishing a commune? (via MeFi)

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Neuromancer — with Hayden Christiansen in the lead role, I fear for the quality of the movie. The poster makes a most excellent iPhone wallpaper, though.

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The second annual A List Apart web design survey is up. If you design sites professionally, please fill it out! No one else is gathering data on our industry.

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Revision Control for WP — limits or disables the new revision feature in WordPress 2.6.

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Font Conference — Times New Roman presides as the standard fonts debate whether to allow Zapf Dingbats into the club. Hysterical! (via DF)

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To celebrate the launch of Tor.com, they’ve reposting the free giveaways they did as teasers. Among other things, that page is a source for some pretty kick-ass iPhone wallpapers.

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F*cking programming — Yeah, that sums up my working life. (via comment at Making Light)

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