(b)logophile

Fair warning: this post will make absolutely no sense to anyone who thinks creationism is as dead as it should be.1 In the US it’s alive and well and trying to get itself into school curricula. PZ Myers writes a lot about it; it’s horrifying but often horribly funny. Yesterday he quoted an Intelligent Design [...]

Suvudu.com recently gave away a bunch of ebooks1 in pdf format. I was pretty surprised by the reaction: people were angry because the free stuff wasn’t the right free stuff. They didn’t want pdf, that was pretty clear. Now suvudu are offering a bunch of other formats, but it got me thinking about why I [...]

I’m in the bathroom, not quite awake yet. Open the cabinet, take out the toothpaste. Reaching for toothbrush I knock something off the shelf — grab! I miss, of course, and knock tubes and bottles all over the place. Pause a moment for the chaos to subside. I pick up the nail-clipper from the floor, [...]

Apparently it’s read-an-ebook week, and has been since… nearly a week ago. Some publishers are offering extra freebies in honour of the occasion, although I must say many of the offerings look pretty hopeless to me. I’m going to let the occasion provoke me into posting, since otherwise I’ll never get those half-baked thoughts out [...]

Lhasa has a new release coming April 21st. Fantastic. [How do I know? Soundamus tells me so.]