(Well, Wednesday flew by without my noticing: the first slip up. I blame Grand Theft Auto IV.)
The thing with CDs is, I buy them, I rip them to MP3, I look at the packaging a bit, then I put them on the shelf where they stay. A nice thing about doing these blog entries […]
Leamington has an awful lot of pizza places. What it really needs now is:
Mexican (Chico’s doesn’t count because it’s useless)
Noodles (a Wagamama would do nicely)
Sushi
Hooray! Sushi is struck off the list, because Sushiya has opened on Holly Walk.
Debbie and I were so eager that we strode in shortly after noon, to a cheery “Irashamasai!” […]
Google has an informal company motto, ‘Don’t be evil’. I wonder how that’s going, when there’s pressure from governments and shareholders. Privacy advocates are already doubting.
But enough of Google. Has O’Reilly Media ever done anything evil? They always seem squeaky clean, virtuous even.
Having published PDF and HTML versions of many of their books for […]
Sooo, number three.
My first exposure to The Apples in Stereo was on the rather wonderful compilation Heroes and Villains - in which acts like Bis, Devo and Frank Black sing their way through a Powerpuff Girls storyline. The Apples in Stereo explain how the mayor contacts the girls in Signal in the Sky.
I think […]
Last Wednesday, I told you that the credibility of the artist in this weekly alphabetical look at my CD collection would rise sharply this week, then plunge next week. Actually that was based on a mis-sorted CD shelf. Next week’s plunge was to be Bryan Adams’ Waking Up The Neighbours. Due to the mis-sorting, […]
To celebrate this week’s breakthrough, in which the open source 3D printer RepRap (currently Slashdotted, as I write) printed a copy of itself (sort of) for the first time, here’s Corey Doctrow’s short story ‘Printcrime‘.
Printcrime
Copy this story.
(originally published in Nature Magazine, January 2006)
Cory Doctorow
The coppers smashed my father’s printer when I was eight. I […]