August 2012
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Americans Think Cloud Computing Is Disrupted By... →
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Player One by Douglas Coupland My rating: 2 of 5 stars Not sure what the point of a Douglas Coupland is, in a world where he has been outclassed and superseded by Chuck Palahniuk, but on the strength of this novel it’s to show how to be trite and banal and to manage to write a claustrophobic set of inane characters making obvious insights and all speaking in the same voice, likely that of...
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Rereading Stephen King: week seven – The Long Walk →
“Stephen King devotee James Smythe retakes The Long Walk in his survey of the horror master, and finds King’s earliest book, written when he was just 18, as powerful today as it was in 1979…”
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Church of the SubGenius Hour of Slack #1375...
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The Fallen by Dale Bailey My rating: 4 of 5 stars I very much want to give this book five stars, I really do. It’s the best horror novel I’ve read in years. The characters are deftly, if lightly, drawn, and their stories are immediately engaging. The protagonist is one of the most ingenious - and sympathetic, and simple - villains I’ve ever read; no irredeemable and totally...
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Not Some New Man: The Hidden Pattern Behind the... →
“Regeneration can be confusing for even the most ardent Doctor Who fan. Our intrepid hero literally becomes a new person and the adjustment is always a little heartbreaking, as though you have to say goodbye to one friend in order to gain another. The process itself is woolly; the Doctor himself admitting upon his seventh transformation that it was “a lottery” and that he had never been...
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Christmas comes early as Asda opens Santa's... →
“August is not yet over but Christmas has come four months early atAsda, which has opened a string of Santa’s grottos at stores across the country.
“The supermarket chain said the grottos were designed to encourage people to start saving for the festive season…”
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Watchryannxp:
Batman of Shanghai: The Destiny Scroll Here’s the complete short film for all of you~ I especially love how fluid the animation and fighting style is. Reminiscent of Kung-fu Cooking Girls.
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Woman took part in search for herself →
“It appears she had even taken part in the search, without realising that she was the woman being searched for. Eventually, it occurred to her that she could very well be the “missing person” being described, and reported the matter to the police. The search was called off shortly thereafter.”
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Grand Island Preschooler Asked to Change the Sign... →
Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it.
“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” explained Hunter’s father, Brian Spanjer.
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Paul Ryan Explains: Rape Is Just a “Method of...
Interviewer: Abortion now… something we’re talking about and I think our viewers want to know exactly where you stand, specifically, you’re pro-life, Catholic…
Paul Ryan: Oh yeah, yeah.
Interviewer: But specifically where you stand when it comes to rape, and when it comes to the issue of, should it be legal for a woman to be able to get an abortion if she’s…
Paul Ryan: Yeah, well, so, I’m very proud of my pro-life record, and I’ve always adopted the idea, the position that the method of conception doesn’t change the definition of life.
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Tom Waits to Appear on "The Simpsons" →
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Man dressed as Sasquatch hit and killed near... →
“Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider says friends of the victim said Tenley was wearing a military-style camouflage ghillie suit in hopes of creating a Bigfoot hoax.
“Schneider said Tenley was first hit by a 15-year-old Somers girl driving in the right southbound lane who said she couldn’t get out of the way. Tenley was then struck by again by another Somers...
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Stanford researchers discover the 'anternet' →
“A collaboration between a Stanford ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet.”
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2 dead, 9 wounded in Empire State Building... →
“We have on tape the perpetrator pulled his gun out and tried to shoot at the cops,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. “Whether he got off any bullets or not, to be determined.”
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said the bystanders were not hit directly by police, but rather the officers’ struck “flowerpots and other objects around, so … their bullets...
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