Let’s postulate a peaceful tribe of Noble Savage warriors descended from carnivores. Send them an Honorable White Man with a selfish motive. Let’s have this HWM, this super Everyman’s Gary Stu, be sucked right into their neo-aztec NuAge culture and impress the tits off them. Yeehah. Uh…too oxymoronic for you? Okay, let’s pile on a…
Spammers are almost the sorriest thing on Earth. I say almost, because the filthy pigs that create the malware and other fool-traps and pay stupid spammers to push their garbage are worse. You can’t even flush them down toilets. They should be vaporized in nuclear reactors, or they will continue to contaminate everything. Yuck. I’m…
This sucks. Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US border Well, there’s Homeland Security for you. Authors are dangerous people, you know. Subversive. Some of us want to make you think. If I had a spare chunk of cash…. Watts’ website
What exactly makes a word or phrase “too modern” to be used by a resident of the Pleistocene? Can anyone give me a nice concise accurate dictionary of caveman-speak? I don’t think so. I am constantly amazed at how one person after another can pick out dozens of “wrong” words — and no two lists…
I’ve always kvetched about how clunky and horrible Java is. I suppose it still is, but now that I have DSL and am getting to be a spoiled brat, I have to admit that wordl is fun. Here’s all of ADIE in one tidy little word cloud: I guess it’s kind of obvious who the…