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• Commented on Bit Rot
  Charlie, would it be ok with you if I put this up on google docs to allow people to edit the typos for you?...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Glasshouse
  Huh, I always thought Curious Yellow was a nod to Vurt by Jeff Noon, shows what I know. (Vurt is well worth a read, although quite different to OGH's work)...
• Commented on Neptune's Brood: an excerpt
  Reading the re-issue of The Bloodline Feud I only just noticed that the first line was (something along the lines of) "The sky was the colour of a dead laptop screen..." Bit of an homage there ;)...
• Commented on The Northern Wild: How to Save New York?
  Why not move everyone out and turn it into a prison? Snake Plisken would approve....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Merchant Princes
  Ah yes, the ebook versions of The Bloodline Feud etc. still don't seem to be on the http://www.panmacmillan.com store, which is a bit odd. (sorry for the double post)...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: The Merchant Princes
  I managed to get all the volumes imported, except the last (Trade of Queens?), which I'm ashamed to admit I had to pirate to find out how the story ended. I will of course be picking up the new UK...
• Commented on Crib sheet: Accelerando
  I know OGH has mentioned that he thinks Accelerando will become dated, well, Neuromancer was dated from the moment it came out*, but it's still mentioned from time to time... (* the notion of cyberspace as a 3d-space made no...
• Commented on Minor hiccup
  "If they [the UK] haven't been up to nearly as much douchebaggery as the US over the last 60 years, it's because of inferior resources." And in the books! It took me several years to realise what Bob's initials spelled...
• Commented on A message from our UK sponsors (again)
  Oddly enough, none of these are showing up in the Tor uk (aka Pan McMillan) ebook store. Which is a shame as I've just started to try and buy from sources other than amazon. (I bought a couple of books...
• Commented on The Fumes of Mordor & Other World Building Models
  From the smell, some people seem to think that out-of-the way corners are public urinals on the tube....
• Commented on Obituaries
  There is one original British car company still going, Morgan. Although technically they aren't still going as they don't seem to have left the 1930's....
• Commented on A message from our UK sponsors
  Rapture of the Nerds has been available in the UK for a few weeks now, it's sat in my 'too read' pile. (I've already read the ebook version, so it's quite a ways down the pile)....
• Commented on "We're going to need book covers. Lots of book covers!"
  Damint, I like those new covers! But I'm afraid I won't be buying them all over again just so that my book shelf matches*. *partly because I don't keep similar books together, and partly because I've run out of bookshelf...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  I'd have thought that if we stay in the EU, the overall society is more likely to be tolerant of eccentrics, what with being based on a much less homogeneous culture. Tolerance cuts both ways mate. I'm also a bit...
• Commented on Wow
  In other news, John Wayne killed by (fallout from a) nuclear bomb.....
• Commented on Roko's Basilisk wants YOU
  "Imagine a paw batting at an upturned face, forever." You sir/ma'am have won this thread....
• Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
  I'm a little bit proud of the fact, and interested to see the end result of Bristol electing an independent mayor, and an independent police commissioner, seemingly as a way of giving the finger to the three main parties. Mind...
• Commented on Press release
  (to put things in perspective, average UK wage is about £26,500 p/y which will attract about 25% tax and provides a comfortable living even in the centre of a large city, depending on your idea of 'comfortable')...
• Commented on Incidentally ...
  I'm not sure how Apple would help, Steve Jobs once tried to get Adobe to let him use Postscript as a display system. Imagine the fun that that would cause....
• Commented on Understanding Reader Reviews
  With the amazon reviews, does that use the same ratings as the recommendations system? I tend to use my ratings to tune the recommendations system to give me better recommendations.* That results in a spread between 3-5 stars mainly, as...
• Commented on National Talk About Something Else Day
  I'm wondering if my friend's attractive flatmate will take up my offer of watching a film together. Fingers crossed....
• Commented on Status update
  Ok, test....