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News that has nothing to do with gaming!
I signed up a couple of weeks ago for Tor’s “Watch the Skies” promotion, where they send you a dozen of their books, once a week, in PDF format. I’m always on the look for more books to put on my Sony Reader, but PDF files are usually formatted to a much larger page than … Read more
You can get a sense for how popular a show is by how many people are downloading it. That’s as direct correlation of interest as you’re likely to get. Using the most popular tracker (I may go back and sum up all trackers), Jericho had about 2400 seeds and leeches this morning. By comparison, Lost … Read more
When I was a kid growing up in New Hampshire, there was this show on PBS called “Jean Shepherd’s America”, which was this guy’s “Travels with Charlie”-esque journey through contemporary 70’s America. He was hilarious, a wonderful speaker and raconteur, and my Dad loved his show. A few years later, he would narrate a movie … Read more
Tuesday — American Idol begins Hollywood week, which winnows the people who made it through the audition process to the twenty-four people who will make it to the actual contest. This year, people are allowed to play instruments. I don’t know how this fits into a singing show, but I guess, anything for the ratings. … Read more
I don’t normally repost advertising, but this kids book, of the sort to explain why Mommy is having a baby or why they have incurable bone cancer but instead being a long, frank discussion of the changes the family’s new file server will make in their lives, is precious.