Monday, July 27, 2009

1491

http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook/1491_looks_deeper_into_early_Indian_life.html

Non-fiction.

I read it and liked it.

Rock Band Network

Starting this fall, Rock Band Network will let aspiring musicians upload their songs as tracks that others can buy and download.

- Washington Post (link here)

What happens when your hard drive gets full?

The Girl Who Played With Fire

Gushy Washington Post review of the book by deceased author Stieg Larrson (link here).

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Fragment

http://www.lvrj.com/blogs/booknook/Fragment_just_plain_fun.html

Fragment by Warren Fahy

Sounds interesting.

Vanguard

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/147/feature/3236/page/1

It took two years to get it to where it should have been at launch.

Dillinger

“Public Enemies” doesn’t look like the usual gangster picture, not only because it’s been shot in digital, but also because Mr. Mann is searching for a new kind of gangster story to fit the times, one that makes room for greater ambivalence, and lawmen and outlaws who are closer to one another in temperament and deed. If he doesn’t fully succeed, it’s because he knows that the gangster’s rakish smile is at once a fiction of cinema and one of its great, irresistible lies.

- NY Times (link here)

I want to see it.