Like seriously.

I originally wrote this as a comment for another site, but it was too long for short-comment. But, I know enough people who like books to be interested in this, what with live-journal and crossposting to facebook.

In the future of e-publishing, electronic publication of long-form fiction will be as easy as blogging-- point, click, and port your ( Read more... )

A couple of you as well as myself have been following this issue with China, to which there is now a new point ( Read more... )

"Analysis examines what it's like to be a 'rich' family in America"

This is one of those articles that gets me steamed up. It examines what the costs/spending habits of the typical family making 250k would be, more or less an effort to say, "I'm not really rich-- I have all these expenses, you see!"

So I'm going to pick it apart, bit by bit.

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So we're in the middle of an economic crisis, the world around. Recently, Ireland's debt concerns have re-sparked fears about Euro-backed bonds and currencies, as speculation mounts that the IMF and Germany will have to step in to rescue the Euro. That begs the natural question: after bailing out Greece, and with the prospects of bailing out ( Read more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/09/AR2010110903639.html

From the article:

"In the CAF-Democracy poll, voters were asked whether they favored or opposed a plan to "launch a five-year strategy to revive manufacturing in America," including "providing companies with incentives to make it in America, ending tax breaks ( Read more... )

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/10/How-to-Cut-343-Billion-from-the-Federal-BudgetRead more... )

So for PC Gaming week, Kotaku has been asking PC game developers about the future of PC Gaming.

Mark Skaggs, one of the creators Farmville has chimed in-- will (a) leave platform behind, (b) be more social, and (c) games will start to scale difficulty to player ability internally.

Cevat Yerli, CEO of Cyrtek (creators of Crysis) has also chimed in-- ( Read more... )

According to Arizona's governor, in Arizona, once this bill goes into effect, local law enforcement has a right to detain you on suspicion of being an illegal alien until specific Federal Agencies intervene: Even if you're carrying your ID with you.

So yeah, apparently under the new Arizona law, your Driver's license (you know, the primary form of ( Read more... )

Since it's the thing to talk about, given the incident over the weekend:

Frankly, this is the result of the increasingly militant policy set by Likud. Likud has continued to escalate it's militant policy since 2006, and this is only a piece of the logical progression of that militant escalation, which continues apace.

The multiparty politics (and ( Read more... )