It has become fashionable in certain circles to discuss Philip Pullman as the anti-Lewis or as the anti-Tolkein. So obviously I had to read the Dark Materials trilogy this weekend.
It’s good. It’s better than Lewis. It’s better than Tolkein. It’s better than Mieville. It’s that good.
In other news:
It turns out the Feds are not spying on this one kid at UMass, although they may be reading other people’s library records.
We’re going to have a leap second.
Motorcyclist Magazine says that 2007 will be the year Honda breaks out the big guns and totally redoes its product line– look for new model announcements to appear as early as September 2006.
Secretly Ironic 