On this, the day of the latest Harry Potter film’s release, I stumbled across Cracked.com’ Top 6 Reasons Harry Potter Isn’t For Kids. For instance, from Reason #3, “Welcome to the Wonderful World of White Supremacy”: […] Rowling, on the…
I recently stumbled across a wonderful thread on the Straight Dope message board posing the following question: What if Lord of the Rings Had Been Written By Someone Else? Some quick examples, starting with an adaptation that would make Theodor…
The original helpdesk employees, apparently, were not brought about by the advent of the computer as previously thought. Instead, a far earlier invention spawned an entire industry: I bet those Gutenberg rollouts were a real bear at monasteries Europe-wide.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
