the whole world burns

“I want to stick my long-necked Giraffe up your fluffy white bunny.”

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On the impossibility of preventing undesirable communication in virtual worlds.

“Subjugation” is now complete

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Another guilty pleasure: self-indulgent science fiction novels. This is an amateur one, so it's even more self-indulgent than usual. (I'll just say that the hero ends up with a harem of alien women and leave it at that.) That's why it's a guilty pleasure.

Glassy Eyes: “Shattering the Eyeglasses Scam”

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Information clearinghouse about buying eyeglasses online. The short of it is that you can save obscene amounts of money.

Grauniad film critic Peter Bradshaw on the cinema of YouTube

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[It] has, at its best, a transcendental amateurism, un-housetrained by the conventions of narrative interest or good taste. It is a quality to be savoured...

University of California eScholarship Editions

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Recent academic books online, some only for University affiliates but some open to all.

What the devil?

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