Johne Cook

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• Commented on Weta's new cheaper, delightful, detailed plastic rayguns
  W00t! Ray guns! I'm all about the ray guns! This is a great find. As much as I love the other ones, I couldn't afford the price. This looks more doable. Want!...
• Commented on IT Crowd comes back for a fourth season!
  They turned it off and on again....
• Commented on "Insane killer" who was treated to a day at a county fair escapes
  I'm curious about something a little more mundane. When the original poster took a screenshot of the AP story via Snag-It!, was that meant to avoid legal drama? As a followup, was it successful? Finally, why or why not?...
• Commented on One More Go: <em>Metroid</em>, from girl geek to Godwin's Law in a single triple-jump
  My favorite female lead is Cate Archer, the distaff James Bond from the No One Lives Forever series. She burst on the scene with two critically-acclaimed games in 2000 and again in the sequel in 2002. It's long past time...
• Commented on HOWTO defeat the Klan with humor and bravery
  What an amazing account! This is the approach the church should take for any social issue. Where's the advantage of the numinous if it doesn't lead to love, not hate? I am challenged and inspired by Rev. Watts' example, and...
• Commented on Brust's JHEGAALA, smart, hard-boiled swords and sorcery with great poleconomy subtext
  #22, Ooh, that's the one where he was painting The Monster. Great call. I loved the discussion of the artistic process interspersed with the trevails of the starting artist....
• Commented on Brust's JHEGAALA, smart, hard-boiled swords and sorcery with great poleconomy subtext
  I had the great good fortune to walk into a grocery store in the early 80s and pick up the original Jhereg book which started the series, and Brust's career. I've been a fan ever since. My favorite author is...
• Commented on Who is copyright for?
  zomg!...
• Commented on Ian McDonald's brilliant Mars book, DESOLATION ROAD, finally back in print
  Ok, you people with indispensable books that I also haven't read aren't helping. (Another addition for the Wish List.)...
• Commented on Ian McDonald's brilliant Mars book, DESOLATION ROAD, finally back in print
  Ack! Too many great books / too little time! (This is, you understand, a great problem to have, far preferable to the alternative.)...
• Commented on Little Brother, the play, on in Chicago until July 18
  This play is based on the book that introduced my teenage son to science fiction and and opened the door to him to reading for pleasure. We live only a couple of hours away and I've been kicking around various...
• Commented on Christian fundamentalists hijack Singaporean feminist group
  Not all conservative Christians are like this. WWJH, Who Would Jesus Hijack?...
• Favorited John Hodgman explains what's wrong with "Meh" on Boing Boing
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• Favorited Young adult authors for Obama on Boing Boing
• Commented on Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: adding much-needed zombies to the Austen classic
  I've not-finished /lots/ of classic books; LotR, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, most of Neal Stephenson after Snowcrash, the list goes on. I'd blame my ADD-addled short attention span, but the real culprit is Roger Zelazny. I /did/ read...
• Commented on John Hodgman explains what's wrong with "Meh"
  I have two thoughts on this. First, as a father of a teen, I'll take 'meh' over silence any day because it is at least an attempt at communication. I work really hard at keeping the line of communication open...
• Commented on Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git
  I've been hearing good things about yWriter as well. I started experimenting with that last night for the serial novel I'm 2/3s of the way through with....
• Commented on Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git
  I'm game....
• Commented on Flashbake: Free version-control for writers using git
  Indeed. I'm shackled to Windows at work, and because my PC is my main gaming rig, I use Windows at home. Prefer OS X, use Vista because it came on the latest machine I bought. A Windows variant would be...
• Commented on Robert Rankin's badass homemade raygun
  We have Ray Gun Revival (which sounds like Reagan Revival, but which actually has nothing whatever to do with the GOP). [shameless plug - RGR just celebrated milestone Issue #50!]...
• Commented on Black light tattoo of a skeleton
  Is 'tufneltastically' a neologism? I've never seen it before....
• Commented on The Buffalo Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008
  Crickets! Crickets? Crickets. (crickets)...
• Commented on Unintentionally funny video challenging Barack Obama's citizenship
  The piece looks like a Jack Chick tract, sounds like something read by Doyle Redland, and smells like . ;)...
• Commented on The Buffalo Beast's 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2008
  Takuan, #47 - You keep referencing Mormonism and cannibalism. I don't get the reference....
• Commented on Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
  XOPHER, #201: * re: Bush, take two. I revealed one candid (and may I add 'nuanced') data point to demonstrate that I'm not a party line guy. I wasn't angling for your approval nor volunteering for your enmity. My point...
• Commented on Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
  If doubt (or simple lively query) is the cardinal virtue of the rational mind, and the hallmark of the examined life is at least looking at data that contradicts one's position, then, yes, healthy debate includes any topic you care...
• Commented on Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
  XOPHER, #195: Ah. I was stumbling over the terminology. In my mind, I sense a clear difference in the flavors of the words 'doubt' and 'question.' To me, doubt sounds like uncertainty, distrust, shying away from curiosity. To question, however,...
• Commented on Atheist bus ads roll in London today: massive success
  #192 - XOPHER I understand you're noodling around with the 'probably' element of the ad, but since you raised the point, is there nothing in your life of which you are absolutely certain? I think it is a little over-clever...