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Commented on Story time!
How’s this for a supervillain: The Angst. Power: They induces intractable despair in middle aged white men, who make up a majority population of Management and, oh dear, superheroes. Origin story: nobody knows. Why bother finding out?...
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Murcushio: you may be right. And you did note there were spoilers. I over-reacted a bit, sorry....
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Just downloaded my Kindle pre order in NZ (from Amazon)! I’ve been looking forward to this. Murcushio: really? Really? It’s just come out and you’re posting spoilers?...
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My observation about Midsomer Murders is that: 1) a lot of murders happen there in the summer months and 2) you generally don't see the same people twice (except the principle cast). I theorise that the local inhabitants know that...
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On the lighter side, perhaps the reason Itzpapalotl “gifted” these powers to Magical Girl Obsidian Heartbleed was because she (Itzpapalotl) came back from vacation and was very impressed that someone could put a heart back in. It’s hard to be...

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Elderly Cynic commented on Story time!
Yes, quite, assuming that you were including loose cannons in the CIA (surely not! It's Contra-indicated!) under Bolton et. al. A third possibility is loose cannons associated with the Saudis or other anti-Shia fanatics. If it were the UK (unlikely, because I don't think any of the plausible prime movers is THAT stupid), it is possible that May wasn't even in the loop. But that's well into the realms of tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory - though, given what is going on, I have been wondering whether such insanity is plausible....
Pigeon commented on Story time!
The Falklands are an example of a problem which could be solved by the invention of the teleport. If you simply teleported the population (with houses etc.) to the uninhabited wastes of Caithness one night they'd never notice the difference - same latitude, same bleak sheep-growing landscape, same cold grey sea, same shitty weather, nobody else wants to live there, etc. etc. And they'd be far enough away from everyone else that they could be the only people in Scotland who love Thatcher and get away with it. Then Argentina could have the silly rocks and welcome, and by the...
paws4thot commented on Story time!
Some of us who are British (at least for now) are totally in support of Catalan rights, and the reunification of Ireland. I don't think we want the little Englandshirers though....
JH commented on Story time!
In fairness, one would have to teleport the sheep too. Who probably would not mind, though it's hard to tell. As for Gibraltar, Spain didn't have a whole lot of choice in signing that treaty. When you lose a war, it's standard practice for the losers to complain and want what they've lost back. Look at all the fuss the French made over Elsass-Lothringen....
Pigeon commented on Story time!
"Elsass-Lothringen." "Mein!" "Mien!" "Mein!" "Mien!" "Mein!" "Mien!" "Mein!" "Mien!" "Mein!" "Mien!" "Mein!" "Mien!" ......

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
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