The “It has a nice ring to it” edition.
- Virgin Black - [Requiem - Mezzo Forte #06] Lacrimosa (I am blind with weeping)
- Spires That In The Sunset Rise - [Curse The Traced Bird #04] Equus Haar
- The Snake The Cross The Crown…
Archive for October, 2008
Oct 31 2008
Friday Random Ten CLXX
Oct 29 2008
Wednesday’s Word LIV
- jack o’lantern
- n. A vegetable, usually a pumpkin, but alternatively a turnip, carved into the form of a face and lighted within by a candle. Associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween.
Every year around Halloween, we’re bombarded with images of glowing pumpkins, traditionally…
Oct 28 2008
In defense of Snopes
For over a decade now, the home for urban legend debunking on the web has been Snopes.com, a personal website run by Barbara and David Mikkelson.
While much of its initial incarnation focused on debunking the oldest of the old—”escaped serial…
Oct 27 2008
Sam Vaknin is still an idiot
You’ll pardon my bluntness in the title, but I find it concise and to the point.
My entry “Sam Vaknin’s Self-Love” remains one of my most popular entries, and continues to attract a dialog/argument between refugees from various fora and user…
Oct 25 2008
Stuff White People Like
Stuff White People Like by Christian Lander- Publisher: Random House
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 224
- See the rest of this year’s listings
- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №63
In less than a year, the blog Stuff White People Like went from being an obscure satirical blog to a full-fledged tour de…
Oct 24 2008
Friday Random Ten CLXIX
The “Day off” edition
- Solefald - [The Circular Drain #05] Red For Fire + Black For Death (by Exorcise)
- Arcturus - [Aspera Hiems Symfonia, Constellation, My Angel CD1 #03] Whence And Whither Goest The Wind
- A Hawk and a Hacksaw - [Darkness At…
Oct 23 2008
Brisingr
Brisingr by Christopher Paolini- Publisher: Knopf
- Year: 2008
- Pages: 784
- See the rest of this year’s listings
- What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
- №62
It may interest you to read my review of the previous book in this series, Eldest.
You might recall that I’ve been reading Christopher Paolini’s mediocre Eragon series…
Oct 22 2008
In defense of open models
Andrew Keen has no idea how open models work.
In his latest article, he pontificates that the recent economic downturn is a death knell for community-supported or community-built programs/sites/&c.
So how will today’s brutal economic climate change the Web 2.0 “free” economy?…
Oct 22 2008
Wednesday’s Word LIII
- Wednesday
- n. The fourth day of the week in the USA, and the third day of the week in Europe
We all know vaguely that our days of the week (and our months of the year, too) generally have their origins in antiquity,…