November 2007
22 posts
Tay zonday →
Nov 29th
Who Says That Size Matters? →
Not too long ago, The Powers That Be in the emerging eastern-European country of Latveria (as I’ll call it) decided that the time had come for a massive, central monitoring system that would be used to ensure the country’s security. SENTINEL, as the system would be called, involved data exchange between virtually every governmental agency, airports, financial institutions, transit systems, and so...
Nov 27th
Axis →
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Nov 23rd
Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the... →
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Nov 17th
Mission Child →
Book — £5.59 With her third SF novel, Maureen F. McHugh continues the dense plausibility and warmly human characterisation that she achieved in China Mountain Zhang and Half the Day is Night. Human settlements on the colony planet Koziko are carefully restricted to appropriate technology for their region. Thus tough heroine Janna grows up in a “Mission” village in frozen...
Nov 16th
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic →
Book — £1.90
Nov 12th
Dude. →
This has got to be the most exciting thing I’ve ever seen.
Nov 10th
Jay-Z as economic indicator? In his new video for... →
Jay-Z as economic indicator? In his new video for Blue Magic, the rapper flashes Euros, not US dollars. When I start seeing rap stars flashing euros instead of U.S. dollars, I know our economy is in trouble. Relatedly, supermodel Gisele Bundchen wants to be paid for her modeling and sponsorship gigs in euros, not dollars. (Or maybe not.) (link)
Nov 9th
Delia Online →
Nov 8th
Free Radiohead →
IT HAS been just over a month since Radiohead jolted the music business and the economics blogosphere by allowing fans to set their own price for the band’s latest album, and the initial results are in. According to comScore, a firm given permission to study downloads from the British rock group’s website, only 38% of album “buyers” opted to pay the band for the new record,...
Nov 8th
Why Strike II →
What’s This All About Then, Oy? For those of you not knee-deep in this — John August explains it best here: If you know absolutely nothing about the issues — or if you have to explain it to your grandmother, who’s upset that her favorite soap opera is off the air — here’s my very short summary of the situation. Writers for film and television are paid a small fee when the things...
Nov 5th
A Simplified Map of London →
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Nov 4th
Slimmy Front Pocket Pen | Uncrate →
Nov 3rd
YouTube - SIMS 141 - Search, Google, and Life:... →
Nov 3rd
Lego Star Wars Motorized Walking AT-AT | Uncrate →
Nov 3rd
Step By Step: Mirror Your Mac on a Bootable... →
Nov 3rd
I'm a boy. I need a bag. Does that make a bag boy?... →
Nov 3rd
Quicksilver: Universal Access and Action →
Nov 3rd
Tag: Volume 1 (Tag (Boom! Studios)) →
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Nov 3rd
Phonogram: Rue Britannia →
Book — £4.05
Nov 2nd