My Kindle Fire has led me to do a couple of things that I never thought I would.

1. I downloaded and played, far more than I thought I would, a game: Kairsoft's Pocket League Story, wherein you manage a football (soccer) team, peopled by icky-cute munchkins, to hopefully that championship season. I haven't finished my first play-through yet -- ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of electrons killed on Teh Internets over Netflix's recent (effective 1 September) price increase/plan restructuring, and I'm a bit late to pile onto that particular bandwagon; in any case, I don't really have a problem with it, since the cost of my preferred plan actually decreased, owing to the fact that I opted out of their ( Read more... )

Tip o' the shako to pithhelmet, who linked to the "I Write Like" site, which purports to analyze your writing style based on a sample of several paragraphs (not tweets) that you've written.

For shits and giggles, I pasted in my two most recent LiveJournal entries. First, the entry from Saturday, 23 April (a book review of Philip Kerr's A Quiet Flame, the ( Read more... )

"We guess http://uvula-fr-b4.livejournal.com/ is written by a man (58%), however it's quite gender neutral."

(Spotted on an entry on marlowe1 at 3:48 a.m. today.)

Heh. This underscores my feeling of being neither fish nor fowl (or, for comic book nerds, the In-Betweener....); but the fact that my LJ is "quite gender neutral" is oddly pleasing to me ( Read more... )

Saw an article in last Wednesday's (5 August) New York Times that actually made me want to start my own Twitter account and follow someone:

The Massachusetts Historical Society is "tweeting" the diary that our sixth president, and son of our second president, John Quincy Adams, kept in 1809, briefly chronicling his trip from Boston to St. ( Read more... )

I wonder: if some paranormal entity plunked its magic twanger and let everyone on Earth eliminate each other on the slightest whim with the same ease that members of online communities can leave in a huff or banish one another, how long it would take for the Earth to become wholly depopulated ( Read more... )

Critic’s Choice - Critic’s Choice - ‘Risky Business’ and ‘The Last Laugh’ - NYTimes.com  --  Published in today's (Tuesday, 7 October 2008) New York Times (David Kehr's "Critics Choice" DVD review column).

Huh: I'd rented The Last Laugh this past March and was suitably impressed with the camerawork, and nonplussed to find the "Hollywood-style" ( Read more... )

BBC Radio 4's website hasn't allowed a goodly chunk of its programmes to be streamed over the internet all week, which means that I've been unable to listen to Part 2 of Classic Serial's adaptation of Tobias Smollett's The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker. As I'd listened to Part 1 (which was originally broadcast on 31 August), and as Part 2 will be ( Read more... )

I guess I should be thankful, in the wake of this year's Thanksgiving, that I don't have a bigger Net presence than I do; because I don't see how I could frickin' stand all the trolls that are out there ( Read more... )

Saw this last weekend that Lone Star Comics has revamped their web site, after, what, at least three or four years.

*Blinks*

OK, it's easier on the eyes, and it looks like they're posting a lot more info on the back issues that they actually have in stock; but I still have a quibble with their categorization methods, to wit: you can't find ( Read more... )