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#bookreview
Terry Pratchett vs. the Global Economic Crisis
Making Money, Terry Pratchett's Nebula-nominated, thirty-somethingth novel in Discworld series, could be a subtitled, "a comic fantasy on contemporary themes," ie the large-scale consensual fraud that is a banking system.
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#rant
Nerd and Anti-Nerd
Is it time to retire the term "nerd"? It's had a good run, sure, but does anyone else feel it's not what it used to be? More » -
#nerdculturalinsurgency
Michael Chabon, Matt Fraction, and the Nerd Cultural Insurgency (NCI)
I made it to the Michael Chabon (The Yiddish Policemen's Union) and Matt Fraction (Casanova) dual appearance at Wondercon, which was well worth it for anyone into literary comics - or comic-bookish literature. More » -
#spore
Spore's Creature Creator Lets You Seed the Galaxy with Life
Spore, the upcoming 6+-years-in-the-making project from Will Wright (Sim City, The Sims, and Sim everything else) is releasing its fabulous alien species design tool, the Creator Creator today as a free download. Spore is Sim-Rise-of-Intelligent-Life-In-The-Galaxy, and it is a fountain of scifi awesomeness. I've followed Spore’s development for a long time, and feel licensed to talk about what I’ve seen and speculate irresponsibly about what I haven’t. (I should disclose at this point that periodically I work as a freelance game designer for Electronic Arts, which owns Maxis, which makes Spore.) More » -
