Tom Yager makes an interesting use of conservative sentiment in an “article”:http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/612778D0F4A9FC1DCC2571EA0013CF45 from Monday, about OS X: bq. Apple has redesigned Leopard — Release 10.5 of its software platform — to meet The Open Group’s requirements for compliance with the Unix standard. … Apple, Darwin and BSD will take computing to the next level by [...]
For best line in an obituary speech this year, Bindi Irwin: bq. Whenever I see a crocodile, I will think of him. I’m not making fun: I think it’s incredible that a man can make his children remember him through the wild animals he wrestled and cared for, instead of something prosaic like an old [...]
Today the “Christian Science Monitor”:http://www.csmonitor.com has “an article about the failure of the Xbox in Japan.”:http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0110/p04s01-woap.html There’s some comments there by me, on Japanese tastes and the centrality of the RPG genre to console success there. “Gonzalo Frasca”:http://www.ludology.org also contributed his words to the piece. Despite the Xbox’s apparent failure, Microsoft bq. “were able to [...]
So I proposed in my review of Japanese Story. Adam Ford commented: This is a joke, right? No, Adam, it’s no joke. Here’s why I’d like to see an immediate end to government arts funding: Taxation is a form of coercion (which under normal circumstances I view as always being wrong). The government uses the [...]
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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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