Robert B. Parker is Dead – Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

January 19, 2010

January 19, 2010

Robert B. Parker is Dead

At the age of 77, “just sitting at his desk” at his home in the Boston area, according to his U.K. publisher Quercus, Robert B. Parker is dead. I’m really not sure how to process this. Not at all. I suppose it’s exactly the way the author best known [...]

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In Which We Count Down The 100 Greatest Science Fiction or Fantasy Novels of All Time

January 18, 2010

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Discus.

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Bill Hicks nailed it long ago

January 12, 2010

(h/t Gawker)
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Too many roundhouses to the head?

January 12, 2010

Chuck Norris Hunts for Obama’s ‘Secret Vault’ as Interpol Conspiracy Theories Get Wilder — Declassified Blog

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Between this guy, the Birthers and Jesse Ventura… conspiracy whackadoos abound!

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Mind Hacks: The case of the haunted scrotum

January 12, 2010

January 10, 2010
The case of the haunted scrotum:
This is quite possibly the oddest example of an illusory face I have ever discovered.
Seeing meaningful information in meaningless data is a psychological effect known as pareidolia or apophenia and this is an example that was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in [...]

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Then, by all means, please stop

March 9, 2009

Writing novels is no fun; nor is, generally speaking, reading novels. Reading people writing about novels is not always fun, either, because relatively little of this kind of writing is any good. Then there’s the group of people who don’t enjoy being novelists, to which I probably belong; whose lives are at once shaped and [...]

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