Category Archives: Reccommended Reading

Geert Wilders’ Speech That Wasn’t Given

Geert Wilders – Counting Cats in Zanzibar.
This needs to be said. This needs to be heard. If I were invited to speak at the House of Lords, this is the speech I would give.

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Digital Native, or Digital Immigrant?

Digital Natives Digital Immigrants – Prensky (PDF)

Having downloaded this a while ago and finally got around to reading it last night I find myself wondering which camp I belong in.
I did not grow up with ubiquitous network access and a world of information at my fingertips but I now find myself being able to assimilate [...]

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Cyberpunk MMO Otherland revealed News // MMO /// Eurogamer – Games Reviews, News and More

Cyberpunk MMO Otherland revealed News // MMO /// Eurogamer – Games Reviews, News and More.
I remember when first reading the Otherland quadrilogy by Tad Williams that it would make a great, if difficult, project for an MMO developer. I’ll be watching this one closely.

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Google Asking For Trouble in Chrome EULA

Google’s new browser, Chrome (I’m not going to link to it, you’ll see why in a minute) is being hailed as a Firefox beater. Its slim, fast and built to work very well with The Goog’s online services. There is a  rather large fly in this online ointment however. It is better explained by a [...]

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Did he just do that? Yes he did.

And he deserves some props for it.
You may wonder what I’m blathering about, well its this. I’ve been following CAD for some time now (if you like a good chuckle and a well written webcomic check out the archives) and honestly didn’t see this coming. The subject matter is a difficult one and as a [...]

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Simon Of Space is now available

Simon Of Space, by the author known as Cheeseburger Brown, from whose pen came The Darth Side and other great works of internet science fiction, has been published and is available from Amazon US, Barnes and Noble and direct from the publisher.

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Vision of a CyberState…

During the early spring, I get depressed. I hadn’t noticed a pattern before but my wife pointed it out to me the other day.
“Yeah,” she said, “its the same every year. For about a month you get irritable, restless, and are unable to focus your attention on any one thing for very long.” Theres also [...]

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A story in one sentence…

onesentence.org 
Write about a life event in one sentence. Harder than it sounds. There are some really touching ones on there if you take the time to look.
The link is to mine btw.

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Ctrl+Alt+Del

Ctrl+Alt+Del
Funny, funny and more funny. A comic for gamers by gamers. My current favourite is “l33t 3nuf?”
More news:
Arthur has a tooth and is sleeping through the night at last.
I am currently unable to read any blogspot blogs or Samizdata which is a pain. If anyone knows why this might be and possible solutions let me [...]

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Cheeseburger Brown: The Bikes of New York

Cheeseburger Brown: The Bikes of New York
The story is available on Blogger but for some strange reason I can’t read it there, or comment unfortunately. If you read it there tell them Mandrill sent you
A dark and dystopian vision of our future from Mr. Brown. Lacking his usual whimsy but no worse for [...]

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