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Month: July, 2008

[Book Review] The Cheese Monkeys

The Cheese Monkeys
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Next on my list out of the four books I spontaneously bought was Chip Kidd’s ‘The Cheese Monkeys’, subtitled ‘A Novel in Two Semesters’. For those not familiar with the author’s name, you’d probably be familiar with …

[Book Review] Slaughterhouse-Five; or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death

First (paperback) edition of Slaughterhouse-Five
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I was not aware of Kurt Vonnegut when he passed away last year. I hadn’t read a single book of his, and that situation remained until a few weeks ago when, after watching a documentary on …

They got a lot of brains…

Some of you may have heard of a little game called Spore, a ‘god game’ being developed by the same guy that invented SimCity and The (incredibly persistent) Sims. It’s set to be the next big thing in this …

Uncle Delicious

Gather ’round folks, I’ve just had a Life Experience. And dang was it tasty.

Ever since becoming an uncle, I’ve been contemplating exactly what my role is. There’s this nagging fear that I might turn out to be That Uncle. …

[Rant] Fallout 3 Banned in Australia

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This just in from Tim’s blog; apparently Fallout 3 has been banned in Australia. What this means in legal terms is that it was refused a classification by the OFLC (Office of Film and Literature …