I got two. Roll up, roll up!

OK, this is a test post from my new Dreamwidth account
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It's like, post a picture of yourself, no posing, no doing of your hair or dressing up or nuffink, no post-processing.
Here you are, from the webcam on the top of the screen on my Dell laptop.

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I was just reading one of the stories I'd copied off the SCI FICTION site, and googled it to read the appreciation. A couple of links later, I was reading "First published on SCI FICTION" and idly clicked the link, to discover the story was still there!

So it seems that nearly a month after they said they'd take the stories, down, they're still up ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm talking about that sorry-ass "My Favourite Album" thing on Triple J. benpeek was the first to notify me of the results in this post, and he treats it to the usual LJ memeage: Bold if you liked it, strikethrough if you hated it, and, well I'm assuming italic means "meh". Needless to say I'm not going to agree with many of his choices ( Read more... )

From benpeek, whose answers here.
The meme part of this works like so: Bold the ones you have read, strike through the ones you read and hated, italicize those you started but never finished and put a star next to the ones you love.

1. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3. Dune, Frank Herbert
4. Stranger in a ( Read more... )

Stolen from Andrew Wheeler, editor of the Science Fiction Book Club. A whole lot of bands I couldn't give two fucks about, which makes it interesting ( Read more... )

benpeek did it. He gave me K. So I gotta do it now.

K is for:

Kid A, which is the point at which Radiohead started to be really exciting. Easily eclipsing OK Computer, Kid A combines sonic experimentalism (which doesn't, perhaps, match the skill of the electronic artists they admire so much, such as Autechre, but is nevertheless great stuff) with ( Read more... )

Courtesy ninebelow, this is apparently the Museum, Libraries and Arts Councils of UK's idea of 30 books you just gotta read, man!
As always, bold = read it, italics = own it and/or want to read it.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Bible (well, not the whole thing! Haha. And I don't own one. And are you talking about the Christian bible, or the Torah ( Read more... )

In my spam folder at work ( Read more... )