Dolphins blow bubble rings. Amazing.

Some book recommendations from my sojourn:

-- The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross, particularly for mysterycult: it's roughly equal measures James Bond, X-Files and the IT Crowd. Yes, you read that right.

-- A Short History Of Islam by Karen Armstrong; it is short indeed at under 200 pages but informative if a bit dry towards the end. Still, if you want a ( Read more... )

Now I remember why I dislike FF3... on Mac at least, the tabs are upside down. What kind of interface metaphor is that, exactly?

Y'know, sometimes even if you do believe that God exists, you might just have to accept that he doesn't like you...

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Pro-life == pro-McMuffin.

The Dark Knight - perhaps because I'd had three cocktails in quick succession before seeing this, but - what? Two and a half hours for that? Seriously? There was about 90 minutes of plot in there. And they killed Aaron Eckhart :(

6/10 DISAPPOINTING

( Dear The Writers Of Doctor Who )

Which is worse? or ?

The final day for us because we are flying back to the UK today, so will miss REM and the fireworks show. We caught the end of The Dø, who were really good - PJ Harvey gone a bit more pop. During their set it really started bucketing it down so we evacuated to a friend of Elizabeth's house, where we sat around drinking and playing three card speed ( Read more... )