hmmm...Thoughts on stuff today.

[asa101]

I wanted to share some stuff with you all today.
If you haven't yet read the book "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow, you should.
It is a story about 4 friends playing an ARG (Altered Reality Game, something similar to a LARP) who end up out of school on the afternoon of one of the worst terrorist bombings to happen. These kids get caught up in the

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[demongrrrrl]

This has been in my Amazon "To Buy Later" cart for a while now. Maybe I should promote it to "Buy Now."

You can download it too.

[asa101]

At the bottom of the post, if you don't want to wait for the money fairy, you can download a free copy from the link I put there.

Re: You can download it too.

[demongrrrrl]

I noticed that after I made my post. I have downloaded it and look forward to having the time to read it.

Thanks!

[gessatrude]

So its like an updated 1984? Orwell was only off by about a quarter century.

I think I'm going to get that Ben Franklin quote tatoo'd on my ass.

In the mean time I'll have to add the book to my "read sometime" list... I'd read the download version, but that much text makes my eyes roll into my head and my brain explode. It will be a sad day for me when paper books go the way of the dinosaur.

Check out the Remix.

[asa101]

Check out the remix, there might be something better for you than scrolling text.
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/category/remixes/
Like this one, someone did a remix that fed it into a text to speech program and got this:
http://www.archive.org/details/Little_Brother_by_Cory_Doctorow_MP3_audio

Re: Check out the Remix.

[gessatrude]

cool. i cna listen to it while i make soap. :)