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• Commented on EZ Cracker egg cracker
  You're all luddites. Or philistines. Or philistine luddites more likely....
• Commented on $50k novel advance == "almost qualify for foodstamps"
  Those are some interesting numbers in that link. Thanks for posting....
• Commented on $50k novel advance == "almost qualify for foodstamps"
  No one expects the Spanish Inquisition....
• Commented on $50k novel advance == "almost qualify for foodstamps"
  That James Joyce, after all. 17 years to write Finnegans Wake. Lazy bugger....
• Commented on $50k novel advance == "almost qualify for foodstamps"
  It's so easy to poke fun. After all, one short book = 50,000 words, so at 100 words a minute that's less than 10 hours. How hard can it be? But unless you're writing formula, or you are one of...
• Commented on Susan Blackmore: "Genes, memes, and now what?"
  Hey, I won your hourly prize. At least, that's what the big flashy thing says. Thanks....
• Commented on Canadian think-tank spends tax dollars to plagiarize and regurgitate talking points from US entertainment lobby group
  Looks to me like they were just remixing, like the cool kids do, no? Or are you in favour of draconian intellectual property restrictions now?...
• Commented on BookArmy: a last.fm for books
  It looks like BookArmy is a project of HarperCollins UK. Not that you'd know it from the site itself, which has a determinedly indie appearance. See http://personanondata.blogspot.com/2008/09/book-army-from-harpercollins.html. Sticking with librarything....