Go get it, go read it.
I don’t agree with everything Spider says or writes, and he has a disconcerting preoccupation with clothing, or the lack thereof, but he is a seriously fine author (who happens to live right my backyard - Vancouver), and this compilation of short stories is VERY good.
Perhaps I’ll add more to […]

I picked up Walter M. Miller Jr.’s Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman the other day, really anticipating an excellent novel along the lines of his enormously influential A Canticle for Leibowitz some 40 years ago.
Major disappointment.
A hundred pages in, after assorted buggeries in a monastery, other nastiness with priests breaking vows, etc. and […]

This is an amazing historical book about the most forgotten massacre in history: the killing, raping, and torturing of hundreds of thousands of Chinese by the Japanese Imperial Army in the period before and including the Second World War.

I like to maintains some kind of record of the books I’ve read … I’ve sort of been in that habit for the past few months.
I like to actually do a mini-review of them all, but this week I lack the time … In any case, here’s the list, with a brief comment on each […]

This is way too cool to pass up sticking a very brief note here:
Turn off TVs wherever you go with TV be gone.
Of course, I saw this 4 days ago on Wired, and now it’s all over the blogosphere …. serves me right for waiting too long.

This must be a quintessentially Canadian story, at least to those who think of Canada as the land of trees, hills, snow, and beavers.
I was working quietly in my office when Carl, one of our developers, sais, “Uh, John, a tree just fell on your car.”

How could they be so dumb?
They’re the people who can actually answer “yes” to the question: “What are you, a rocket scientist?”
And yet they make incredibly bone-headed mistakes like installing a deceleration sensor upside down or failing to convert from imperial to metric.
Unbelievable.
Kinda restores your faith in the everyday average Joe, huh?

Ever need the sound of a wolf growling or snarling?
I just did, and I found it right here.
Very cool!
UPDATE:
This is much more cool … a search engine for sounds.
Wow. Love it.
Now why didn’t Google do this?

2 months ago I received a Gmail account. 1 GB free, no need for .Mac, Apple’s email/storage/Sync/everything solution.
So I thought I’d cancel. Nice try. You can’t cancel!