This is a list of archived entries published in July 2006.
I’ve started to follow the news recently (after staying away from much of the news media, for my mental health) and came across this article about the development of hardware that will allow us to control mechanical devices with our minds. According to the article, scientists have already managed to implant a chip in a [...]
Sean pointed out to me that I didn’t have feeds to my various RSS capabilities available (for instance, you couldn’t add a Live Bookmark in Firefox). I’ve now rectified the situation, or appear to have. If you have any trouble with the RSS feeds, let me know.
It’s interesting how, when you end an email with the expression “Keep in touch,” what you’re really saying is, “I’m ending this particular round of correspondence and hope I don’t have to write to you again for quite some time.” And in some instances it could arguably mean “Never email me again.”
It doesn’t have quite [...]
What with all the M. Night Shyamalan bashing going on over his latest dopus (as in opposite of opus) Lady in the Water, I thought I might remind you that Mr. Shyamalan’s been on a slide for some time and direct your attention to The Journal of the Alien from “Signs”, which I wrote back [...]
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke (no relation—to my knowledge, anyway).
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Assessment so far: Very good, very entertaining, very British. I think a lot of American writers tend to come up with a plot and stick close to it (especially in fantasy writing), whereas British authors seem [...]
The Amazing Screw-On Head was a one-shot comic book by Mike Mignola. Published in 2002, it went on to win an Eisner award for Best Humor Publication. Mignola’s idea with Screw-On Head was that his Hellboy stories never quite turned out as bizarre and weird on paper as they did in his head. ASOH was [...]