Well why not? A lot of other people seem to be. I'm starting to see mentions of it all over the place. (And when io9 starts referencing something, I tend to think it's hit at least the pop-culture-savvy "mainstream"). Matched, by Ally Condie, is apparently being cited along with The Hunger Games1 as one of the to-read / most popular YA books of ( Read more... )

D'you ever have one of those mornings where you just wake up and go, "I've had a spectacular idea! It came to me in a dream, festooned with pomegranates and tigers and needles and a naked woman!" (Thank you, Dali.) "I shall implement this immediately without thinking about it further!"

...Yeah, I think that's pretty much what some people over at ( Read more... )

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I agree with everything Ellen's saying in this post:

How the web is changing certain social exchangesThe personal back and forth is what makes it all worthwhile, in my opinion. I even get annoyed at friends who overuse email instead of the phone, because even email is slightly less personal. I love actually seeing ( Read more... )

I re-read The Fountainhead this week. It’s a good book, with some inspiring ideas, but one thing that’s always bothered me about it is that I don’t find the characters reflected in the world today, or at least not in the absolutes that Rand writes. Not that I’d want to see an Ellsworth Toohey ambling around- the very thought of him disgusts me, ( Read more... )