Monthly Archives: April 2007

I’ve ben reading and enjoying David Wong’s work for a while, but frankly I think this is his masterwork. It encapsules in one neat little capsule theory the reasons why we as a race can be so tolerant of some … Continue reading →

Faithful reader and fellow Sick Puppy Clive has pointed out this little gem from The Onion’s AV Club. Dammit, all my Vonneguts are in boxes under the stairs. I think I may have to go Kurt-mining…

We were in Malmö this weekend, as part of an informal gathering of Scandinavian friends. Clare and I are honorary Scandies, and we wear our horned hats with pride. It was a real blast, and we discovered some whole new … Continue reading →

This is just the finest piece of autobiography I’ve read in a long time, and of all places it’s appeared on the Something Awful forums. Bruiser has his own voice, a nice line in avoided obscenity, and the deftest of … Continue reading →

In the light of yesterday’s nightmare in Virginia, I’ve been musing on the problems facing a country which seems content to allow hormonal, confused teenagers access to semi-automatic assault rifles. Blame has been attributed already to slow response times of … Continue reading →

Kurt Vonnegut has died. Not entirely unexpected (he was 84 after all, and has looked at death’s door for the last 5 years, frankly) but still utterly rotten news.

…and no, that’s not an excuse to have another Creme Egg.

Oh, now this is interesting. Leo at Lifehack throws out some ideas on how the netsavvy geek can run his life just using Google Apps. This is increasingly how I’m running things at Casa de la Verdad Fea. I’m a … Continue reading →

NASA have reported that they now have concrete evidence of the presence of water on Mars. The astonishing evidence has been posted here.(a little lax in posting. This should have gone up on Sunday.)