wfzimmerman’s review: “I’ll approach this one with some interest. The choice of Kevin J. Anderson for the sequel to SLAN seems less inspired than the choice of John C. Wright for the sequel to THE WORLD OF NULL-A. “
Tor Books (2007), Hardcover, 272 pages
Some excitement in our neighborhood yesterday — it’s been so dry that our neighbor’s lawn caught on fire. We suspect a sparkler dropped by neighborhood kids.
Kelsey saw the fire and told Cheryl and me. We came running across the street — our neighbor is 89 years old and frail. I pounded on the door, and Kelsey alertly found Esther in her back yard. I put out the fire with a hose.
Wow — like living out west with wildfires!
Potter Effect Is Entertainment Magic - 7/11/2007 5:48:00 AM - Publishers Weekly
Harry Potter is an entertainment industry juggernaut. Every segment of the biz—from book publishing to movies to music—will tell you so. But now we can get a glimpse of all those figures in one place. The Nielsen Company has produced a report that provides a snapshot of the boy wizard’s deep reach into a broad range of entertainment segments via the usage and trend data that the company tracks as its core business.
Numbers on book sales, movie revenue, ad spending, and more.
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The same thing happened at the second meeting — discussion from other commissioners about terrorism, nuclear proliferation, anarchy of failed states, etc, and then this one woman warning about the looming Chinese menace. And the third meeting too. Perhaps more.Finally, in frustration, this woman left the commission.
“Her name was Lynne Cheney,” Hart said. “I am convinced that if it had not been for 9/11, we would be in a military showdown with China today.”
Let’s try this story again and replace Lynne Cheney with …
Marilyn Quayle?
Betty Ford?
Tipper Gore?
Mrs. Spiro Agnew?
So many of these problems trace back to Bush allowing his Vice President to be more than a figurehead. Here’s hoping that future Presidents will go back to the days of selecting powerless, amiable lightweights for Vice President and keeping them on a very short leash.
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Clay Aiken apparently involved in airplane spat - CNN.com
Johnson said the dispute was over the male passenger’s foot resting on the woman’s armrest.
If your FOOT is on someone’s ARMrest, you’re in the wrong, dude.
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MacDailyNews - The only thing really wrong with Apple’s iPhone is its name
Back to the naming issue: Apple’s “iPhone” isn’t really a phone at all. It’s really a small touchscreen Mac OS X computer, a Mac nano tablet, it you will. Here’s how misnamed the iPhone is: some people are complaining that Jobs didn’t spend enough time on the Mac in his keynote! Folks, iPhone is not only a Mac, it’s the most radical new Mac in years! What’s to stop Apple from making a 12-inch (and larger, and smaller) one of these (use the headset for the phone, please) and calling it a Mac tablet?
I don’t want an iPhone. I don’t want to be stuck with AT&T’s pokey EDGE network and I don’t want a 3.5″ browser.
But I’d love an 8 1/2 x 11 iPhone with a hard disk and about a thousand PDF books on it… wouldn’t that make a terrific complement for Google Books? I’ve read rumors that Google and Apple are thinking about working much more closely … an iReader with iBookstore would make a lot of sense. Maybe this is where Google Book Search is going with its long-delayed “online access” option. (I submitted my pricing info for online access more than 18 months ago, and no sign of the feature yet…)
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