It’s one of the best adventure novels I’ve read lately: the original Redwall by Brian Jacques. Talking animals, an evil threat, a perilous quest, a sympathetic hero, and some suitably gruesome moments… the book has it all. And with a mouse as a hero, the view of carnivores […]
Here’s a little more Jonathan Coulton and Merry Xmas from Chiron Beta Prime!
“It doesn’t mean that Wil Wheaton doesn’t love you”: Jonathan Coulton explains a few things about Wil Wheaton to Wil Wheaton and the fans at PAX 2009–to the tune of “Code Monkey.”
Lady, That’s My Skull has fragments from a manifesto written by a disgruntled smoking scientist at a secret base in Nevada: “Why Anti-Telepathy Helmets Do Not Work.”
On the physics of space battles looks at the balance between realism in space battles (at least what we can estimate that would be) and fun stories.
In the course of making The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call: New Orleans, Werner Herzog seems to have discovered how to save Nicolas Cage: let him drown. Why am I writing about Nicolas Cage again, after effectively writing him off in a previous column? Maybe because, with his […]
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