Literal Barrage

Glenn Reynolds pointed out the following highly interesting story over at SciFi.com today:

Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in [...]

I was extremely surprised to find out that Fox News was readying an interview with O.J. Simpson in advance of his "hypothetical" book's release. I was even more surprised to find out that they not only backed off the interview but also canceled the book itself. I wouldn't have pegged Fox to be [...]

Title: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: A Novel
Author: Susanna Clarke
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Genre: Fiction
Available From: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Jonathan Strange is an odd book. Its premise is simple: it's the early 19th century and the Napoleonic wars are raging in Europe. England, once the proud seat of European magic and magicians, has all but [...]

In the wake of the Stephen Colbert Whitehouse Correspondents dinner kerfuffle, I was cruising the Internet[s] looking for prior precedent for comedians excoriating a sitting president to his face when I stumbled across a draft version of Al Franken's routine at the 1996 WHC dinner. As I perused the speech, I noted with interest [...]

Amazon will occasionally send me email with recommendations for me to check out. Apparently, I have been confusing the heck out of their suggestions system, as the above email is the result.
Yes, they simultaneously recommended War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race and What to Expect When You're [...]

You'll slap yourself over this one, as you too could have traded your disdain for OPEC in for a phat book deal. Looks like your anti-OPEC arguments are represented fairly substantially in Learsy's Over a Barrell.
*grin*

Credit goes out to Aron for ferreting this one out. He's been on a bit of a Flickr kick recently and happened across a Flickr group that is seeking to photographically document the real-world locations described in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle (i.e. Quicksilver, The Confusion and The System of the World). Thus far, [...]