One of my favourite novels is George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides. It’s one of the most beautiful, haunting novels I’ve ever read and it holds up amazingly well when you think it was published in 1949. Earth Abides is a post apocalyptic novel but it’s really more than that. It’s a lament for civilisation; human [...]
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Is beauty dying?
Posted by cjlevinson on October 18, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/18/is-beauty-dying/
Quantico by Greg Bear
Greg Bear has written some of my favourite SF novels in the past but for the last few years has been moving more into the mainstream with his fiction. That’s fine with me as I’ll read anything I can get my hands on and Bear’s thrillers are different to most, but I admit I’m looking [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on October 3, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/10/03/quantico-by-greg-bear/
WordPress blocked in Thailand as well
First WordPress.com was blocked in Turkey, now it seems like Thailand has followed suit. Reports have been coming in since August 22 that the WordPress.com domain has been blocked by the state-owned TOT telecommunications company, preventing their users from accessing all blogs hosted on WordPress.com. The FACT (Freedom Against Censorship in Thailand) blog reports that [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on September 1, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/09/01/wordpress-blocked-in-thailand-as-well/
When does protection go too far?
This hasn’t been a good period for John Howard. Howard forgot a Tasmanian Liberal candidate’s name on air, and then the ridiculous upgrades to the government’s VIP aircraft were revealed: $100,000 worth of upgrades, including $9000 in silk wall panelling and $6200 in almond-coloured leather added to the ceiling (refits that were later dropped). The [...]
Posted by cjlevinson on July 17, 2007
http://cjlevinson.com/2007/07/17/when-does-protection-go-too-far/
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