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• Commented on The Ferguson Question
  I haven't read the whole thread yet so my apologies if this is a repeat, busy day. But:- - I live in Oakland, CA which is one of the more violent cities in the US - Homicides in the city...
• Commented on Schroedinger's Kingdom: the Scottish Political Singularity Explained
  I suspect that Charles Stross and I would disagree on many things, not least on the analysis of Margaret Thatcher's choices whilst in power. A good demonstration of his earliest point in that we have similar backgrounds so might reasonably...
• Commented on Checking in
  Reading about about a teenage superheroine (with bunny ears no less) did not seem particularly inviting. However, given the recommendation, and the fact that I have enjoyed other work by Seannan McGuire, I thought I would give it a go....
• Commented on Making history personal
  1372, according to Wikipedia, the castle of Henry II of Castile, Ciudad Rodrigo, Salamanca in Spain. It's a Parador (hotel chain). Many Paradores are in historic buildings such as castles and convents. Some of the places I lived in Italy...
• Commented on The regular holy war ...
  You are a braver man than I. I have tried to install Linux on two occasions, once two years ago (Ubuntu) and once about ten years ago (Suse). In both cases I gave up in frustration. I could get to...
• Commented on (Flash fiction) A message from the Laundry public relations office
  My information is that Mountbatten was replaced after the sinking of the HMS Kelly. This explains the subsequent events at Dieppe and during partition....
• Commented on Polemic: how readers will discover books in future
  The increased signal to noise in publishing is the heart of the problem in finding books to read rather than the inclusion of adverts which is likely to be easy to avoid. Up to now we have relied on publishers...
• Commented on Polemic: how readers will discover books in future
  and yet I still can't find anything worthwhile to read.... with notable exceptions of course! In the last few years, the number of books I have started to read whose authors clearly have little grasp of grammar, plot, character or...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  scott-sanford @139 Thanks - I'll take a look....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  Greg Tingley @140 I don't believe that I suggested that evangelicals did not exist nor that they did not sincerely hold to their beliefs. I have experienced that sense of dissonance on realizing that the person to whom I was...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Apocalypse Codex
  On my initial read of the Apocalypse Codex I was somewhat disappointed. I felt that it lacked some of the more interesting detail of the Fuller Memorandum and the adrenalin of the Jennifer Morgue. In the Fuller Memorandum I loved...
• Commented on Snowflakes, or Oh, No! Not Again!
  Somewhat off topic but since it is almost your last day I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your book. Your topic was indeed audacious, writing about the troubles can often been seen as either patronizing or...