When Does Fan Fiction Cross an Ethical Line?.

Another interesting article here which does a comparison of the published work against the fan fic work, refuting the author's claim that it was a largely original work ( Read more... )

Further to my earlier post about the frequent misspelling of "devastating", I saw devastating spelt "devestating", "devistating" and "devasting" the other day ( Read more... )

I was reading on dogsintraining about the Olympic Animal Sanctuary. It's a place set up by a man named Steve Markwell to save dogs that are considered dangerous and have no chances of adoption so are likely to be euthanised. Many of the dogs have mauled humans or killed other animals. The dogs will never be adopted out because of their temperaments but ( Read more... )

The ad says that it's a great wedding or anniversary present ... Ummm ...

Believe it or not it's a real product. ( Read more... )

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When I was commenting on the book Gravity by Tess Gerritsen, I mentioned that I find plague/epidemic/pandemic stories very interesting.

The second book that I've read on my Kindle has been The Demon in the Freezer, a book by Richard Preston that is ostensibly about the eradication of smallpox ... the problem is that the author very awkwardly ( Read more... )

Hmm. Song similarities. I was listening to Sinéad O'Connor's song Back Where You Belong (the theme from The Water Horse). At first the Canadian said that it was reminiscent of the woman who sang the album Wrecking Ball and I said that that made sense because Wrecking Ball had been produced by Daniel Lanois who also produced Back Where You Belong ( Read more... )

I was pondering PostSecret the other day.

Wikipedia describes it as:

"an ongoing community art project in which people mail their secrets anonymously on one side of a home made postcard ... The simple concept of the project was that completely anonymous people decorate a postcard and portray a secret that they had never previously revealed. No ( Read more... )

I once posted this comic before. It was a not so subtle dig by Stephen :)


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I like the Korean film My Sassy Girl. Download it here and watch it. If you get past the nausea on the train scene, you'll love it like I do.

So sad. Of course there's a US remake. I don't mean to be pessimistic but it's bound to be horrible. :| The Canadian likes all of the "Woman of No Consequence" roles in the cast :)


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