A paper of mine on the social education of youth in Final Fantasy 6, 7, & 8 appears today. It’s in the online journal Reconstruction: Studies in contemporary culture, in a “special issue”:http://reconstruction.eserver.org/061/contents.shtml on videogame culture. This paper (mentioned in a “previous post”:http://benhourigan.com/archives/2005/01/21/you-need-love-and-friendship-for-this-mission/) has a tortured history. The editors of this issue of Reconstruction, Matthew [...]
Nick Hornby, How to Be Good (London: Penguin, 2001), 244pp. ★★★ (3 stars) I got this as a Christmas present from Mum and Dad: unusual, since in Australia I’ve got so many unread books that I never read anything that people give me, and I think they know that. But they rightly guessed that books, [...]
I had the misfortune of falling sick today, my one day off this week. So I spent several hours finishing reading “Penny Arcade.”:http://www.penny-arcade.com Yes, all of it, from the first strip (“11 November 1998″:http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1998/11/18) to the most recent “10 February 2006.”:http://www.penny-arcade.com/2006/02/10 I’m pleased to say that the strip has gotten better over time (as it [...]
Novell recently announced its release of the “Xgl”:http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ code that it’s been working on by itself for a while. There are some videos of the upcoming Novell Linux Desktop 10 (NLD) at the “release page.”:http://www.novell.com/linux/xglrelease/ The above picture is a mockup released a few months ago, but as “Jono Bacon”:http://www.jonobacon.org/viewcomments.php?id=637 has written, it’s very similar [...]
Today I’ve been reading about the “Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons controversy…”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_cartoons_controversy To summarise briefly, in September 2005, a Danish newspaper (the Jyllands-Posten) published a collection of caricatures of Mohammed. Doing so was intended to highlight a feeling that artists were self-censoring, afraid to depict Mohammed because of fear of reprisal from Muslim extremists–Islam forbidding depictions of [...]
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Kiss Me, Genius Boy is Ben Hourigan's debut novel, and the first of three volumes in the No More Dreams series. Available on the full range of ebook platforms starting at just 99c on Kindle, KMGB is an unforgettable tragi-comic tale of teen romance and obsession. Full details here.About
Ben Hourigan is an indie novelist, the author of Kiss Me, Genius Boy (2011). He is also the manager of digital operations at a Melbourne design publisher, a freelance writer and editor, and the founder of ebook label hourigan.co.
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