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I started listening to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but it was getting boring. In fact, I ended up listening to Steve Martin’s autobiography instead.
My problem with the Jane Austen zombie adaptation is that the daughters were trained “in the fighting arts of the orient”, and in a “shaolin monastery” no less… Its [...]
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Richard Dawkins, the Evolutionary Biologist who coined the idea of memes and authored “The Selfish Gene” and “The God Delusion” – which is just simply brilliant – gave a speech on TED which I heard last week and very much enjoyed.
Dawkins is a confirmed, out-spoken atheist and in The God Delusion set out to criticize [...]
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I’ve found a great chinese website with a recipe for rice wine, which I’m eager to try out. The recipe is simple and, according to the author, the home-brew method of his family; apparently all over China people brew their own wine. Awesome.
In China, rice is life. Its prepared as a sticky porridge – both [...]
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On the video-podcast show called “Its the End of the World as WE KNOW IT and I Feel Fine” (downloaded and watched directly from the great free software called Miro that I just discovered the other day), there was something (on the Twiran episode) I have to quote before I got to work:
“Now, why would [...]
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Few things get me riled up like bad reporting. And while there’s bad reporting and bad reporting, intentionally compromised news by self-conscious reporters are the worst. Let me explain what I mean by that.
If the best trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world that he doesn’t exist (as the saying goes), then [...]
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A friend of mine just sent me the trailer to a movie coming out in October of this year, called the The Road. Its based on a novel by the same name by Cormac McCarthy, which I can testify was excellent.
Although from the trailer you can tell it will be significantly different from the book [...]
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You might have noticed an increase in links in my posts. While previously I used a plug-in called Smart Linker to help me, I’ve started using something called Zemanta. There’s a few reasons for this. I’ve always liked to read things that are well referenced, and while this won’t necessarily do this, it does give [...]
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For a while now I’ve considered water the best solution to weathering out the zombie apocalypse. After all, zombies can’t swim, and as long as you stick to deep waters, they’re out of reach. Its also something that struck me while reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
The best solution to The Road apocalypse is the house-boat, [...]
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