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To the flat belly ad.

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Neil Gaiman on his story I, CthulhuThat Lovecraft, a devoted anglophile, was a fan of the man's work is unsurprising. That P.G. Wodehouse was a fan of Weird Tales is perhaps more so. How their lengthy correspondence got into my grubby little hands I do not wish to go into at this point. Suffice it to say that I possess not only their only ( Read more... )

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Oprah, in case you didn't know, is about to end her show, taking with it that strange beast: Oprah Book Club ( Read more... )

WTF! When did IBM buy SPSS? And SPSS is now "PASW (Predictive Analytics SoftWare)"! Stupidest rebranding.

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I should start reading the DNA. It is, like HT or TOI, full of crud, but it does seem to carry useful stuff.

Yesterday, I spotted an article in DNA on PlayPower.

As the PlayPower wiki explains
Playpower is creating new software for a $10 computer that already exists and is being sold in street markets around the world. These computers are ( Read more... )

I probably follow a larger set of blogs than most people around me, and I follow them on Google Reader. Now, following feeds from a large set of blogs means that I generally have a lot of unread posts to go through when I want to while away time. But, at the same time I do not want most of those unread posts to be by people who talk about Things I ( Read more... )

So, it was a long day capping a long week. And the weekend would not quite be the weekend I dreamt it would be. The cold beer I had been dreaming about all day, like the alcoholic I am, just to get through the day, might just remain a dream as it is nearly too late to go out ( Read more... )