Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/fail_duke_nukem/all/1 Phantom Menace Review The best (and longest) movie review I’ve ever encountered. http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/17/watch-this-70-minute-video-review-of-star-wars-the-phantom-menace/ Star Wars quotes in Japanese http://nihonshock.com/2009/12/star-wars-quotes-in-japanese/ Can tongue surgery improve English-speaking ability? http://www.japanprobe.com/2009/12/21/can-tongue-surgery-improve-english-speaking-ability/ Richard K Morgan on…
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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Reacting to Numbers
Reading By Numbers, my first SFWA-level published story has garnered some nice feedback. Fantasy Magazine interviewed me about the story. After reading the interview, quite a few people (including computer programmer friends) realised they’d missed the hidden codes in the…
The Real Reason the Terrorism Watchlist Failed
http://www.theage.com.au/world/terrorist-scare-puts-pressure-on-obama-20091228-lh9e.html?autostart=1 But around the nation, politicians and security experts were questioning Ms Napolitano’s assessment, particularly in light of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s father, a former Nigerian government minister, notifying the US embassy in Abuja six months ago of his son’s increasingly…
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Trained-up ninja monkeys ‘turn on master’ http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/984812/trained-up-ninja-monkeys-turn-on-trainer Chinese opera face-changing http://www.reuters.com/article/video/idUSTRE5BA0I720091211?videoId=12268497 Coconut Collecting Octopus The Inexplicable Adventures Of “Zombie vs. Ninja” http://io9.com/5429240/the-inexplicable-adventures-of-zombie-vs-ninja Creepy Japanese Baby Simulator http://gizmodo.com/5429651/japanese-baby-simulator-is-1000-times-creepier-than-a-normal-baby Your Chance to buy a Japanese island previously used by the Imperial Navy…
The War on December
Anything that happens in December is irrelevant. That’s the impression you could get from the fact that swarms of best of the year lists were released in November and early December. It seems just a tad presumptious to chronicle the…
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Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/11/dr-peter-watts-canad.html Ten Ways Space Travel Isn’t Like Television or the Movies http://www.satelliteinternet.com/news/ten-ways-space-travel-isnt-like-television-or-the-movies/ The Funniest Reasons Customers Reject Books http://www.publishersweekly.com/blog/660000266/post/210048821.html “I don’t do books about elephants set during the…
Monkey Picked Tea
A friend of mine acquired some tea that the packaging claims has been picked by monkeys. The company’s web site says: No folks we’re not pulling you leg! This rare chinese tea is carefully picked by specially trained monkeys…
