Another neat technology blog
Afrigadget, is a site with neat technology appropriate to Africa.
Street Use
Street Use, a blog on how people really use things, or squodge them together with other things to make them better.
Rent another's Rental
Seems a little meta, but you can rent a place that someone else is renting. OK, it’s just short-term sublet type deal, of neat vacationy places.
Spiced amusement
Spamusement is comics inspired by actual spam subject lines. It is, as advertised, actually amusing!
I Am the Messenger Review
I Am the Messenger, Zusak. Yes. I have a couple issues with the book. First, it assumes (or perhaps implies) a characteristic of human nature that I am firmly convinced does not exist; second, the writer does a thing that I ordinarily disapprove of. He executes it competently, but it is not necessary to the story and I believe it does a disservice to the characters. Your assignment: compare and contrast IAtM and Zero Effect.
Walking in Circles before Lying Down Review
Walking in Circles before Lying Down, Markoe. Yes. I laughed more reading this book than I have laughed at a book in a long, long time. Ms Markoe is a gifted humorist.
Visionary in Residence Review
Visionary in Residence, Sterling. No. This was quite a struggle for me to finish. I usually enjoy Sterling’s work, and I did enjoy the final two stories in this collection, but the rest, by and large, made me think that he was taking the title of the collection (which is also, I believe, his job title where he’s a visiting professor of design or some such) far too seriously. I really don’t care how smart you are, or how smart you think I am, just use the right words in the right order. Almost no one is good enough to show off and get it right.
But if they move my desk again…
So your pesky co-workers won’t let you listen to your police scanner at a reasonable volume, check out today’s 911 dispatches in Seattle.
Deadly Chiropractors!
In the deceptively boring titled press release (“State revokes, suspends licenses, certifications, registrations of health care providers”) from the Washington Department of Health, some people lose their medical licenses for some terribly exciting reasons.