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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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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