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God, Storytelling and Life of Pi

Spoiler alert: This review might contain spoilers. I don’t think it’s anything drastic, and besides, books are more about epiphany and revelation than surprise. If you read this review you’ll still love the book. And if you want to go in a virgin, get reading, I’ll

The Illusion of Permanence

Amidst the frustration and rage deriving from a recent mp3 fiasco (I tried to use the ipod plugin for winamp and subsequently formatted my ipod and lost half the music on my harddrive. Note: I strongly suggest NOT using this program.), I’m beginning to long for the old days

Real Quick

http://trashotron.com/agony/news/2005/05-23-05.htm#052405 Interview with Chuck Palahniuk for some radio show. It’s pretty long (42 min) with lots of cool details about ChuckP and his work. Chuck actually talked about having an over-abundance of media bombarding us, and its difficult to find an

DIY Society

One of the growing trends out on the web is the idea of do-it-yourself [http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1061773,00.html?promoid=roth] . From MAKE magazine, a geek’s guide to building rube-Goldberg contraptions, to services like LULU and IFilm. Media is easy to make,

Mysteries of the IPod

Since January, my car has been a sanctuary of musical selection, free from obnoxious DJs [http://www.99x.com/] and advertising barragement. I have an iPod [http://www.apple.com/ipod/] with iTrip [http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/itrip/] hooked into a PowerPod [http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powerpod/]. However,

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