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Linkfest 2017-04-14

* Brazil’s New Problem With Blackness Brazil, like many Latin American countries, has a color spectrum instead a color line, the result of not having anything like a one-drop rule defining who is black and who is not. This has interesting implications if you also want to have a binary

Starcraft: Evolution Book Review

Starcraft: Evolution By Timothy Zahn Del Rey Books, 2016 $28.00; 354 pages ISBN 9780425284735 In general, I don't read videogame books for the same reason I don't watch videogame movies. With a few exceptions, they all suck. I picked this volume up because Timothy Zahn

LinkFest 2016-12-31

Last link roundup of 2016. Happy New Year! Stun guns and male crew: Korean Air to get tough on unruly passengers This article is interesting for all kinds of reasons. The proffered explanation that "Asian carriers including us [Korean Air] have not imposed tough standards because of Asian culture&

Soda Pop Soldier Book Review

Soda Pop Soldier by Nick Cole Harper Voyager, 2014 $4.99; 368 pages ISBN 978-006-221022-7 Nick Cole describes this book as "Ready Player One meets Call of Duty". I would wholeheartedly agree with that assessment. I would also recommend this book, at least to anyone with the same

Salvage and Demolition Book Review

Salvage and Demolition by Tim Powers Subterranean Books, 2013 $30.00; 155 pages ISBN 978-1-59606-515-4 Tim Powers has been one of my favorite authors for over a decade, and this novella is full of the reasons why. A good time travel book is hard to write, but I think Powers

The Long View: A Culture of Conspiracy

The world of conspiracy theories is a strange one. If anything, a lack of proof, or even disproof, only makes them more popular. There are a lot of durable memes that came out of the 1990s, things like the New World Order, or the Men in Black. Hollywood helped, and

Terms of Play Book Review

Terms of Play: Essays on Words that Matter in Videogame Theory by Zach Waggoner, editor McFarland Books, 2013 $40.00; 244 pages ISBN 978-0-7864-9670-3 I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. I have been sitting on this book for two years, so