Here were are, November and even though I am an Ossee (to use the American pronunciation ;) and having once been a keen student of US history, I have one question burning in my mind:Obama or McCain?I wonder what Europe would be like as the ruler of a state? and I wonder what life in a place ruled by the Branden Rose might be like for Joe the Plumber...? Who would you like from the Half-Continent to...
Jumat, 31 Oktober 2008
Senin, 27 Oktober 2008
19.51
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Facebook (remember the days when it was exclusive to students only?), aka. cum bucket of the internet, has so much to offer.You can get reconnect with "friends" that you never had interest in real life, lose your privacy, get bombarded by clever data-mining advertisers, and blah blah blah...It comes with no surprise there is a group called "CooLeSt...
Sabtu, 25 Oktober 2008
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io9.com recently posted something about futuristic bad-ass tattoos, one that received much attention is on the back of Enola in Waterworld (it was a shitty movie by Kevin Costner, come to think of it, were any of Costner's movies good?).From Engrish & Hanzi SmatterI thought Enola was a dwarf when I first saw the movie. Perhaps that was because...
Selasa, 21 Oktober 2008
16.47
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me was wondering: "It's nice to see that there are upgrades, add-ons, plugins, etc [Europe v3.11, perhaps?]. in the half-continent. Are these upgrades limited to internal organs only? Are there pugnators out there who figure an extra eye/arm/thorny-bark-like-skin-in-sensitive-areas/claw/magic-big-toe in addition to their modified innards might improve their trade [and fees]?."You have hit the nail...
Minggu, 19 Oktober 2008
19.07
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This weeks piece of folksy wisdom: do not stay up way past your bedtime, tap yourself a glass o' water when overtired, go to bed and have your wife/partner/flatmate wake up 3 hours later to find that said tap (faucet) has not been properly turned off and the kitchen bench, floor and draws are all swimming, then spend next hour+ ladling water out of draws that can not be removed and towel dry every...
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In November 2008 issue of Wired magazine, there is an interesting article about underground (or should that be "under-net") volunteers that would add subtitles to popular American television shows for those who do not understand English.The concept is interesting however the illustration accompanying the story is not so.While both English and Arabic...
Sabtu, 18 Oktober 2008
Rabu, 15 Oktober 2008
16.28
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Something I find frustrating when I write is those times when I am keen to press on with the story but it occurs to me that one of the characters (usually Rossamünd, bless him) is not being quite true to himself in an earlier chapter. Sometimes I will try to write on, enjoying too much the sensation of the word count increasing and chapters being marked off (especially with the hot breath of deadlines...
Sabtu, 11 Oktober 2008
10.26
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While scanning through gossip site, The Superficial, I came across several images of Melanie Brown, aka. the former Scary Spice, modeling for Ultimo Autumn/Winter lingerie line.http://thesuperficial.com/2008/10/scary_spice_will_frighten_your.phpI have no idea what the character circled in red supposedly to be. Is it 女? Or, is it 太?Oh, Melanie B, why...
Kamis, 09 Oktober 2008
19.05
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Alan noticed something odd about the photograph in BBC's article about Russian journalist, Elena Tregubova.http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3227666.stmAlan says: "The Japanese in the background is obviously reversed. Perhaps the BBC published a mirror-image reversed copy of the photo. Although obviously intended to be Japanese, the text in the background...
Selasa, 07 Oktober 2008
18.39
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Just a quick heads-up that there is a prototype version of the Zoomable Map of the Half-Continent up and functioning. My esteemed comrade G.R. Morton and I shall be working to make it a tad more Halfcontinenty over the next x period, but I figured folks had waited long enough, so sneak preview away!(oh, and if it seems to stay blury, just give the map some time and maybe a click and it should focus)Ok,...
Rabu, 01 Oktober 2008
19.25
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A great little post I found over at Whatever by John Scalzi (and its original source @ xkcd - thank you Tom) regarding word length of a book as being conversely proportional to is unreadability. The comments are illuminating too, MBT even gets a mention from a Seattle-based bookseller friend of mine in comment #51. Have a read if you will and come on back...In reading the aforementioned blog and its...
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