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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 at least a few pieces of his work, given he’s basically designed every worthwhile book [...]
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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 another fallen hero, Hunter S. Thompson, I decided to buy some of the books I [...]
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 genre of video game, in the fact that you can create your very own species from [...]
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. The one that everyone at a family gathering takes shifts keeping an eye on because he’s [...]
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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 Classification), which in turn means that it was deemed to have more mature content than a [...]