A few years ago, I came across a review of a book called Fools Errant. I believe it was in Locus magazine, and the novel was by a new author named Matthew Hughes.
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Book Review 2007 #46: Endgame
Disclaimer: I received an ARC from EOS of this book.
Endgame, by Kristine Smith.
Verizon Rejects Messages from NARAL
Verizon Rejects Messages of Abortion Rights Group – New York Times
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for text messages from Naral by sending a message to a five-digit number known as a short code.
Update: Verizon recants:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/business/27cnd-verizon.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print
Verizon Reverses Itself on Abortion Messages
By ADAM LIPTAK
Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless last week rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program.
But the company reversed course this morning, saying it had made a mistake.
“The decision to not allow text messaging on an important, though sensitive, public policy issue was incorrect, and we have fixed the process that led to this isolated incident,” Jeffrey Nelson, a company spokesman, said in a statement.
Movie Review 2007 #124: An Ideal Husband
A little gem of a movie, starring Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett and Minnie Driver
Khruschev then, Ahmadinejad now
Bed-wetter Nation | Campaign for America’s Future
Rick Perlestein at Common sense has an entry entitled “Bed wetter Nation”, contrasting the treatment we gave the Soviet Premier at the height of the Cold War in 1959, and Iran’s President this week in 2007.
Its a saddening indictment of how America has changed. Read it.
On NPR recently, they had a story about the Premier’s visit to Iowa, and how a gift that the Premier had given to the first lady of Iowa was recently brought to light–a set of records of Russian music.
Can you imagine the outcry today if the Iranian President gave Mayor Bloomberg a gift from Iran? Or perhaps can you imagine the outcry if he, instead wished to visit the site of Ground Zero and lay a wreath?
Wait…that already has happened.
Help me populate a F/SF football league
One of the games I play is the stat based computer game Front Office Football.
Its a lot of fun, even if its mostly numbers. There is no joystick control a la Madden or its rivals. On the other hand the career mode is deep. You can play year after year of a league of your making and i have done so.
It occurred to me today that I could have fun starting a new league, with a draft for imaginary teams. I briefly flirted with world cities without teams, and then a better idea struck me, one that *you* can help me with.
2 Conferences, 16 teams in each conference. With a little creativity, I can change city names and locations and make imaginary places. And since I could start with a draft so that all teams started equal…
Well, I could have 32 teams taken from fantasy and science fiction.
Where you can help me is with suggestions. Site in a world plus a name for the team would be great.
For example:
The Babylon 5 Starfuries
The Amber Royals
The Traken Keepers
I open the floor for suggestions. Help Populate my league!
A guidebook for me to pick up
MPR: New North Shore guidebook explains Minnesota’s origins
The author of a new guidebook to trails on Minnesota’s North Shore was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio today. The book sounds like its right up my alley for geological,historical and botanical explorations up there.
Movie Review 2007 #123: All the President’s Men
Recommended to me by Arref, I plugged a lacunae in my cinematic education with this Oscar winning story of the reporters who broke the Watergate coverup. The movie stars Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman.
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Movie Review 2007 #122: Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
An incompletely successful movie adaptation of the late Douglas Adams’ universe.
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Movie Review 2007 #121: 300
I reviewed this movie earlier this year when I saw it in theaters.