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Commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
@Eadwacer: excellently put. I think there is much truth in what you've said....
Commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
Britney Spears is played on "classic rock" stations? Geez, I leave the country for 18 years and it all goes topsy-turvy....
Commented on BookArmy: a last.fm for books
LibraryThing is good enough for me!...
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Dick Cheney in a maid's costume? NOW I need the mind bleach....
Commented on George RR Martin's "The Armageddon Rag": Sex, death, blood and rock-n-roll
One of my favourite books ever! Writing about the experience of hearing music is, I think, extraordinarily hard to do well. Martin gets rock spot on in this one. Plus, the soul-searching about what the counterculture really meant -- and...
Commented on Fred Dibnah: master chimney demolisher and coal-mine enthusiast
I've never been one for mechanical engineering -- I'm definitely a child of the digital age. Fred Dibnah made me wish I wasn't. In his shows, he had a gift for sharing his enthusiasm for the older stuff. Thanks for...
Commented on Impromptu bookmarks found in used books
Oh, and the English-language site is http://www.librarything.com -- the linked thread is on one of the many alternate-language versions available. Just so you know....
Commented on Impromptu bookmarks found in used books
I just wanted to add that LibraryThing is excellent. Not sure if I'd describe it generally as "sweet and poignant", but there you go. There are a great many intelligent and fun book-lovers there. Check it out....
Commented on Neat organization at new NYC bookstore
As PCamps sez, Daunt Books in London has been doing this for a while -- see http://www.dauntbooks.co.uk/ . It's a marvellous shop....
Commented on Kids' game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day
Man, those CP dudes are so plurky. They can bolgate their filters up their collective crop. They'll never demalk our frutzes....

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jphilby commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
They've always known that You Can Do That on Television....
jphilby commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
A Commodore 64 was,once again, a naval officer waiting for retirement....
License Farm commented on Things that have always been true for the class of 2013
Once again, like the other Beloit alums on here, I would like to urge everyone ready to have a bird that this list is merely intended to encourage dialogue, and that no one is so reductionist as to believe that items existing before one's birth cannot pierce the veil of time into one's lifetime. We have this discussion every year; go take a look. @ #2 John Phantom: The phrasing is that they COULD reach for Zoloft, not should or must. Everybody's body chemistry is different; just because it was dangerous for you does not automatically make it so for...
debg commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
History-writing tends to work the same way. Historians think they (we) are writing about the past, but it's really about the present. And contrafactual history, which is often published under the SF guise, gets even better in that respect....
Poindexter commented on Science fiction as a predictor of the present
Great points. I think it's a given that any author in their creative effort of framing a future vision must operate within the confines of the existing knowledge and circumstances of the Present. This is simply the template from which they all must "predict." And I believe that the sign of great literature, or at least "relevant" literature, is that it speaks to pertinent concerns in the Now. However, I wonder if there might not be some exceptions to the argument that writer's aren't really extrapolating the future based on rigor and science. For instance, isn't Arthur C. Clarke credited...

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