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Spring Breakers. That was actually... a damn good movie. I was expecting trashy exploitation and got a dreamlike, Terrence Malick-light-like movie with a lot of guts and brains (and not just in the visceral sense). Possibly the best new movie I've seen this year.

A while back I read Paul Davies' The Eerie Silence. He's very skeptical about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life; his argument goes something like this: No matter how huge the universe is, and no matter how many planets could support life, we still have no statistics on how...

I recently bought a Kobo Glo, which I'm really happy with - it's got a proper reading light integrated in the screen, it's got WiFi, it syncs across devices, and the Kobo store generally has everything Anglophone I need - if it doesn't, transferring files onto it is easy. Of course, two weeks...

Actually (and sorry for resurrecting this thread just to be picky) those are two different songs. The Kingston Trio et al "500 Miles" and the Proclaimers "500 Miles" share only the title and some acoustic guitars. My favourite version of the "classic" "500 Miles" (which apparently goes back to...

So it would seem. :) Hiya, Polly! Good to know some things haven't changed...

Cory Doctorow has Opinions. (We knew that already, right?) He has Opinions on issues such as copyright, lawyers, entrepreneurship, digitization not only of information but of life itself, the role of technology in transforming our view of the world, etc etc etc. And that's all well and good...

"Hi, my fellow atheists, my name is Alain and I'm a Philosopher." "Hi Alain. Sounds like a fun job." "You have no idea. And when I say 'my fellow atheists', I include you lot over there who may believe in something in general but don't live actively religious lives." "Really? Um... OK, hi."...

Amerika. Very obviously an early work - not only is it unfinished (especially noticeable towards the end, where it doesn't so much end as just stop) and not as quintessentially Kafka as his later works, but you really notice him developing the identity of the novel as it goes on. From a simple...

This may be the best book I've read so far this year (well, Karen Tei Yamashita's I Hotel may be a close second). Wolf Hall is so beautifully multi-layered, at once a simple soap opera (the same, and yet very different, story was televised as The Tudors after all) and a hard-hitting look at the...

I was, at one point. Then I wasn't. Let's see what the future holds. Parts of me missed this place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpoOjoiYcWY My Bloody Valentine don't release a new album every day. In fact, it's been 22 years since their last one. You know what? I'm happy.

Thomas Pynchon - Gravity's Rainbow :stars5: :stars5: That's January gone, then. But well spent. Damn, this book eats everything.

The hero: Abba Alhadi. People of Timbuktu save manuscripts from invaders - Yahoo! News Bad. Ass. Also, most of the documents that were torched had already been digitized. Manuscripts don't burn.

Destruction of Timbuktu manuscripts is an offence against the whole of Africa | Jonathan Jones | Comment is free | The Guardian

Stephen King risks wrath of NRA by releasing pro-gun control essay | Books | guardian.co.uk Anyone read it yet?

Marty McFly seems to be compensating for something.

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https://twitter.com/scottsimpson/status/283363098495156224 And again, if the smell really is such a huge turn-on, there's always this: http://smellofbooks.com/