Blogcoven

While the guy from South Asia & the West African discussed the finer points of safety on assignment in the West Africans country and the Irish guy, South American woman and North African snickered in the offices of a French company based in Scotland, I realised we ain’t really dealing with a monoculture here…

Neil’s publisher has made “American Gods” available for free for a month. If you’ve never read anything by Neil, and have been wondering how I managed to fall so hard for some writing that I knitted a pair of plain black socks for a complete stranger, now is your chance.

I’m late to the party on this one, but “Once” won this year’s Academy Award for “Best Music (Song).” Considering three of the five nominees came from the same film, one might cynically say that the field wasn’t all that broad this year, and I suppose it wasn’t. I was happy with the outcome, however [...]

I’m still skeptical about Obama, I’m naturally pushed away by hype and I really find his message of generic change to be Blair-esque.
However, for the consideration of the candidate, it might be interesting to examine the detail of what measures Clinton and Obama have
introduced. Daily Kos has one such study of the senators.
It’s a good [...]

… was the future just turning over. “Not quite yet the headband of the Ono-Sendai deck in William Gibson’s Neuromancer, but close.” to quote Ken MacLeod, writer and general future seer-y sort.