Whatever you're doing right now, stop. Go read Little Brother instead.

Little Brother is the best book I've read all year. This would have more meaning if it wasn't the start of the year, so let me rephrase that. Little Brother might be the most awesome book that I could possibly read this year.

There's an excellent summary of the book here, so ( Read more... )

I am currently addicted to Mansion Impossible. It's a house market game where you have to try to buy/sell houses as fast as possible to get enough money to buy the 10mil mansion.

Definitely more interesting than Url Adex, which is a stock market-like game where you can buy and sell URLs. Kathy, thought you might like it though -- if you don't have ( Read more... )

I was convinced that I wouldn't have Net this weekend and that I'd have to wish you a belated Happy Birthday on Monday instead but lo and behold, I have Net ( Read more... )

I wrote a HP 7 drabble. For my new favorite HP char, who'll probably get an entry to himself to explain why I suddenly like someone from HP so very much. XD ( Read more... )

China takes 'Net addiction very seriously.

The part that killed me was:

Addiction to the Internet is blamed for most juvenile crime in China, a number of suicides, and deaths from exhaustion by players unable to tear themselves away from marathon game sessions ( Read more... )

"I wouldn't play you even to save the world."
"But would you play me to destroy it?"

Attribute the lines to anyone you damn well want. XD

In other news, I've been playing around with only_fiction nearly all day, trying to get tags lined up and indented in the sidebar. I did find something that would work for it, but it required me having a paid account and I ( Read more... )