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The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies. Written for the 50th anniversary of SETI, it's not merely a history of the search for alien intelligence, but also of the methodology that underlies it - both in terms of how we do it, and what we might feasibly search...

It was. Though a word of caution: It's very much a late-period Neil Young work - which means it can come across as unfocused, overlong, repetitive, and utterly brilliant all at once. In a way, Waging Heavy Peace is a story of itself. We read it as Neil wrote it, more as a long blog post...

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Angry Birds E-Reader App to Launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair | TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics I'll be there. I'll try to get a hold of one and see how it works.

So, Neil Young's autobiography is coming out in a few days (or maybe it's already out in the US, I'm not sure). Anyone but me really excited? Interview Excerpt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOq93UqN9vU

The great thing about public domain books is that anyone can publish them. The bad thing about anyone being able to publish them is that anyone can put a cover on them. Caustic Cover Critic: Humiliating Henry James ...and many more.

And the books keep a-comin'. Fifty Shades of Mr Darcy, anyone? Or perhaps Caitlin Reads 2666? That's... not really what most people took away from 2666, I think.

And apparently New York being "New Wild Boar Village" is a long story that I had to look up; the old Roman settlement in England was named Eboracum, which is a Latin bastardization of the celtic word for "yew tree", which was at some point bastardized back into Old English as Eoforwic ("village...

I know, which is why I continue to be puzzled that you're making the exact opposite argument, and exactly what it is you think I'm wrong about. I've said numerous times that catholics have a legal safeguard in that they're allowed to say whatever they want; however they do not, and should not...

^^ I'm curious about that one. Good cast, seems to be a plot that hasn't been done five million times already... Got around to rewatching The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover for the first time in a very long time. I'd forgotten how deliciously (sorry) weird this movie is. I mean, I...

...damn, it's been so long I can't remember a single episode clearly. I'm going with the one where they go to Springfield and Mr Burns is an alien. Good morning starshine... Best guitar solo under 30 seconds?

My bad; "keep not legal" rather than "ban", then. It comes down to the same thing in the end. (Often even before that; if you look at some countries, such as the US, a lot of organisations are currently working to pre-emptively ban same-sex marriage before the majority change their mind.) And...

This is pretty neat:

If Christians think absolutely everyone is evil (and yet oddly do target some groups more than others - you can't argue that trying to ban same-sex marriage isn't targeted specifically at same-sex couples), then all the more reason not to give them veto rights when it comes to civil rights.

No. Why does Donald Duck wear bathing trunks when he goes swimming, even though he walks around tackle out everywhere else?

Beerwench - just out of curiosity, could you possibly not post major spoilers in general threads? Thanks. :(

And since apparently nothing has anything to do with anything, maybe someday we'll agree that the catholic church has nothing to do with whether the government should let same-sex couples get married. :) I do agree that people shouldn't be prosecuted for saying gays are evil, much like I don't...

And if institutionalised homophobia and campaigns against equal rights were indeed unique to Scotland, your answer might have something to do with my parable.

In Berlin. I was just told to be proud that my only son died for the Führer.