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Burning Tower Book Review

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle $7.99; 655 pages I reviewed Burning Tower along with Burning City a year ago. I recently re-read them both, so this seemed like a good time to expand upon my rather cursory review of Burning Tower. Burning Tower picks up a year after

Brave Movie Review

Brave Movie Review

Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Thompson, and Steve Purcell Written by Mark Andrews, Steve Purcell, Brenda Thompson, and Irene Mecchi Starring Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, and Emma Thompson Merida's hairBrave is about two things: the relationship between Merida and Elinor, and the natural beauty of Scotland. Actually, three

Photo essay on Kowloon walled city

Kowloon Walled City was demolished in 1992, but it has been documented in photographs. If a writer invented this place, it probably would have been described as too incredible to believe.

Freefall

Jerry Pournelle recently recommended Freefall, and this is my favorite web comic of the moment. It may have been slow going waiting for it to come out originally, but I breezed through the first couple of years of comics already. This is definitely engineer humor, but it can also make

New Tim Powers book coming March 2012

Hide Me Among the GravesTim Power's newest novel, Hide Me Among the Graves, will be coming March 2012. This is sort of a sequel to The Stress of Her Regard , a tale of vampryic muses in the lives of Byron, Keats, and Shelley, based on actual events in

Weiner Brauerei 1516

Weiner Brauerei 1516

The DK guidebook we bought before going to Vienna said there weren't any breweries in the city, so I don't know whether this place is new or the guidebook was just behind the times, but I wish I could have gone there! I learned of this

Migration

Migration

An interactive map showing 2008 county-to-county migration in the US. For Coconino County, you get a lot of people moving to and from other cities with high tech, and a few hotspots such as Missoula that feed people into industry here. Coconino County Migration