A Modest Construct

Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

Publisher: Pantheon

Year: 2007

Pages: 288

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I briefly considered not even bothering with Soon I Will Be Invincible, thinking two superhero books in one summer would be overkill. Thankfully, I enjoyed this one far more than From the…

Chuck Klosterman IV by Chuck Klosterman

Publisher: Scribner

Year: 2006

Pages: 384

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You may recall that I read Klosterman’s 2003 work, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, at the end of last year’s meme. At the time, my views on Klosterman’s work was about as divided as…

The “moving is hard work” edition.

1. In Flames - Moonshield
2. Jason Falkner - Song for Her
3. Arcturus - Nightmare Heaven
4. Andrew Bird - Ethiobirds
5. Sondre Lerche - Virtue and Wine
6. Rachel’s - Egon & Wally Embrace & Say Farewell
7. Aerial - My God It’s Full of Stars
8. Paatos - Téa
9. The Tea Party - Interzone
10. Calexico - When Only Ashes Are Left

Deep of the nectarine sunset to drink:

• The Smedley Log (I…

Show Stopper! by G. Pascal Zachary

Publisher: Free Press

Year: 1994

Pages: 312

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While perusing the (absolutely wonderful: you should be reading it every day) blog of Jeff Atwood, I came across his review of Show Stopper!, and was intrigued enough to check it out myself.

I’m…

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman

Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company

Year: 1997

Pages: 350

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I’ve never been a follower of Feynman’s work—in fact, I was only familiar with him in passing, in a vague “famous physicist, somehow connected with The Bomb” sort…

5 Nov. 2007 • I’ve formatted this code as a plugin, too. Go to the project page.

Blockquotes, by definition, can and should in most cases have a title attribute and, if possible, a cite attribute. The former is the actually name of the quote’s source. The latter is the URI to the…

The “Banner Upgrades” edition

1. Pain of Salvation - Leaving Entropia (12:5)
2. Guster - The Beginning of the End
3. KT Tunstall - White Bird
4. Leaves - Shakma (Drunken Starlit Sky)
5. Ben Christophers - The Drinking Tree
6. Mono & World’s End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer/Mass Murder Refrain 4
7. Nine Inch Nails - Into the Void
8. Beirut - The Penalty
9. Nick Drake - At the Chime of a City Clock
10. Tool - The…

Lord Conrad’s Crusade by Leo Frankowski

Publisher: Great Authors Online

Year: 2005

Pages: 230

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It may be of interest to you to read my review of the previous book, Conrad’s Quest for Rubber

This most recent entry in Leo Frankowski’s Adventures of Conrad Stargard series is the…

It’s been a work in development for quite some time now, and I’ve been using it as my main client ever since it entered beta stage, but developer Tim Kosse has finally published a stable 3.0.0 version of the famous open source S/FTP client, FileZilla.

This release is important for a…