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I should note it’s Petroc Trelawny’s last day on the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast show today. I’ll miss his dulcet tones, and especially his weird pronunciation of ‘Bach’.
Radio saying SpaceX’s latest launch will be the first to orbit over the north and south poles. That’s wrong, of course: there have been plenty of circumpolar satellites. I wonder if it’s the first human-occupied one to enter that orbit; or just the first commercial one to do so.
Carrot Weather catching the vibe of the day as usual.
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- Crucial Track for April 17, 2025
- I'm Still Here, 2024 - ★★★★
- 📗 Books 2025, 9: The Interpreter, by Brian Aldiss
- 📗 Books 2025, 8: The History of Rock ‘n‘ Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus
- Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat, 2024 - ★★★★½
- The Ipcress File, 1965 - ★★★★
- The Philadelphia Story, 1940 - ★★★★
- 📗 Books 2025, 7: The Productions of Time, by John Brunner
- 📗 Books 2025, 6: The Pale Horse, by Agatha Christie
- The Severed Floor is not the Black Lodge
- Maybe You Can Post Your Way Through Fascism
- 📗 Books 2025, 5: Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer
- 📗Books 2025, 4: Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen
- Sweet Smell of Success, 1957 - ★★
- 📗 Books 2025, 3: The Great When, by Alan Moore
- Blogging and reading in 2024
- 📗 Books 2025, 2: Vivaldi and the Number 3, by Ron Butlin
- Tales From Right Now
- 📗 Books 2025, 1: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, by Agatha Christie
- A Complete Unknown, 2024 - ★★★★★
- Unpleasant Men
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, 1967 - ★★★½
- 📚 Books 2024, 26: Conclave by Robert Harris
- 📚 Books 2024, 25: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
- 📚 Books 2024, 24: A Jura for Julia by Ken MacLeod
- Conclave, 2024 - ★★★½
- 📚 Books 2024, 23: Death's End by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu
- It Happened One Night, 1934 - ★★★★
- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, 1988 - ★★½
- Trumpeting
- 📚 Books 2024, 22: The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, Translated by Joel Martinsen
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000 - ★★★★★
- Persepolis, 2007 - ★★★★
- Memories, Facebook, and The Clash
- 📚 Books 2024, 21: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu , Translated by Ken Liu
- Spectre, 2015 - ★★
- 1984: A Year With Gravity
- Adam's Rib, 1949 - ★★½
- Evil Under the Sun, 1982 - ★★½
- California Suite, 1978 - ★★★
- What's Up, Doc?, 1972 - ★★★★
- The Death of Stalin, 2017 - ★★
- Murder on the Orient Express, 1974 - ★★
- Wicked Little Letters, 2023 - ★★★
- To the Polls!
- One More Week to Hang On
- The Man with Two Brains, 1983 - ★★★
- Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical, 2022 - ★★★★
- Spotlight, 2015 - ★★★★
- Beverly Hills Cop, 1984 - ★★★
- Perfect Days, 2023 - ★★★★½
- The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, 1988 - ★★★★
- Game Night, 2018 - ★★★★
- Society of the Snow, 2023 - ★★★½
- Dune: Part Two, 2024 - ★★½
- The Aviator's Wife, 1981 - ★★★★
- Part 3 of the Bucatini Trilogy
- Dune, 2021 - ★★½
- Days of the Bagnold Summer, 2019 - ★★★½
- My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend, 1987 - ★★★
- Custom and Use
- A Good Marriage, 1982 - ★★★
- The Harder They Come, 1972 - ★★★
- 📚 Books 2024, 2: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- 📚 Books 2024, 1: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
- Anatomy of a Fall, 2023 - ★★★★½
- Maestro, 2023 - ★★½
- Edinburgh by Alexander Chee (Books 2023, 27) 📚
- Saltburn, 2023 - ★★½ (contains spoilers)
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie (Books 2023, 26) 📚
- Nine to Five, 1980 - ★★★★
- The Holiday, 2006 - ★★★
- Who Do You Think You Both Are?
- The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Books 2023, 25) 📚
- The Affirmation by Christopher Priest (Books 2023, 24) 📚
- … And Took the Road for Heaven in the Morning
- 8½, 1963 - ★★★
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Books 2023, 23)📚
- All About Eve, 1950 - ★★★½
- Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler (Books 2023, 22) 📚
- A Star Is Born, 1976 - ★★★
- GoodFellas, 1990 - ★★★½
- White Riot by Joe Thomas (Books 2023, 21) 📚
- Velvet Goldmine, 1998 - ★★
- The Exorcist, 1973 - ★★½
- Tenet, 2020 - ★★★½
- In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez (Books 2023, 20) 📚
- The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith (Books 2023, 19) 📚
- The Net, 1995 - ★★½
- Canal Dreams by Iain Banks (Books 2023, 18) 📚
- A Star Is Born, 1954 - ★★½
- Fatal Revenant: The Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 2 by Stephen Donaldson (Books 2023, 17) 📚
- In the Heat of the Night, 1967 - ★★★
- Straight to Hell, 1987 - ★★
- Frances Ha, 2012 - ★★★½
- Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons (Books 2023, 16) 📚
- The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Books 2023, 15) 📚
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Books 2023, 13) 📚
- The Runes of the Earth: The Final Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Book 1 by Stephen Donaldson (Books 2023, 12) 📚
- The City & the City by China Mieville (Books 2023, 11) 📚
- The Importance of Being Earnest, 1952 - ★★★½
- Cléo from 5 to 7, 1962 - ★★★½
- The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling (Books 2023, 10) 📚
- Barbie, 2023 - ★★★★½
- Oppenheimer, 2023 - ★★★★
- Falling for Figaro, 2020 - ★★
- Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (Books 2023, 9) 📚
- Chevalier, 2022 - ★★½
- Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997 - ★★
- Films, Books, Blogging, and Giving Up
- The Matrix Resurrections, 2021 - ★★★½
- Blue Jean, 2022 - ★★½
- The Green Ray, 1986 - ★★★
- After Love, 2020 - ★★½
- Pain and Glory, 2019 - ★★★
- Punk Publishing: A DIY Guide, by Andy Conway & David Wake (Books 2023, 8) 📚
- Everything Everywhere All at Once, 2022 - ★★★★½
- Beyond the Reach of Earth by Ken McLeod (Books 2023, 7) 📚
- A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson (Books 2023, 6) 📚
- Interzone 294 Edited by Gareth Jelley (Books 2023, 5) 📚
- Sister Act, 1992 - ★★★
- On the Basis of Sex, 2018 - ★★★
- The Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald, Translated by Michael Hulse (Books 2023, 4) 📚
- Suzanne on the Stage
- Penny-Farthings and Paranoia
- Gosford Park, 2001 - ★★★½
- Comfort and Joy, 1984 - ★★★ (contains spoilers)
- Our Man Flint, 1966 - ★★½
- Tár, 2022 - ★★★★
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage by Sydney Padua (Books 2023, 3) 📚
- Bomber Jackson Does Some by Bob Boyton (Books 2023, 2) 📚
- All Quiet on the Western Front, 2022 - ★★★
- The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years, 2016 - ★★★★½
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, 2022 - ★★★
- Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 2021 - ★★★★
- Together We Will Go by J Michael Straczynski (Books 2023, 1) 📚
- A Look Back at my 2022
- RRR, 2022 - ★★★½
- The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Books 2022, 33) 📚
- Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★★
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, 2022 - ★★★★
- The Perfume Burned His Eyes by Michael Imperioli (Books 2022, 32) 📚
- Nothing Compares, 2022 - ★★★½
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★★
- Rocannon's World by Ursula Le Guin (Books 2022, 31) 📚
- Twenty Years Without Joe
- Illuminations by Alan Moore (Books 2022, 30) 📚
- Falling for Christmas, 2022 - ★★½
- The Silencers, 1966 - ★½
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Jennifer Croft (Books 2022, 29)
- Next Songs, Elon Musk, and Joe Strummer
- The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 28)
- The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022 - ★★★★
- Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 27)
- Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 26)
- Barry Lyndon, 1975 - ★★★½
- Wednesday Night is Music Night
- Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 25)
- God Save Your Mad Parade
- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 24)
- The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 23)
- Molly's Game, 2017 - ★★★½
- The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith (Books 2022, 22)
- The Title of The Smiths' Third Album
- Excession by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 21)
- Dead Air by Iain Banks (Books 2022, 20)
- All the President's Men, 1976 - ★★★½
- The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M Banks (Books 2022, 19)
- The Situation and the Story by Vivian Gornick (Books 2022, 18)
- Interzone Issue 292/293 Edited by Andy Cox (Books 2022, 17)
- We're No Angels, 1955 - ★★½
- The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester (Books 2022, 16)
- The Islanders by Christopher Priest (Books 2022, 15)
- Still Life by Val McDermid (Books 2022, 14)
- A Theatre for Dreamers by Polly Samson (Books 2022, 13)
- Software and Wetware by Rudy Rucker (Books 2022, 11 and 12)
- Ubik by Philip K Dick (Books 2022, 10)
- Bloody Ebooks!
- Inverted World by Christopher Priest (Books 2022, 9)
- V for Vendetta, 2005 - ★★½
- V for Vendetta, 2005 - ★★½
- The Absolute Book by Elizabeth Knox (Books 2022, 8)
- Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan (Books 2022, 7)
- Easy A, 2010 - ★★★
- Easy A, 2010 - ★★★
- Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★★
- Baby Driver, 2017 - ★★★★
- The Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2022, 4–6)
- A Room with a View, 1986 - ★★½
- A Room with a View, 1985 - ★★½
- Pitch Perfect, 2012 - ★★★½
- Miss Sloane, 2016 - ★★★
- Pitch Perfect, 2012 - ★★★½
- Miss Sloane, 2016 - ★★★
- Propaganda and Suffering
- The Velvet Underground, 2021 - ★★★★
- The Velvet Underground, 2021 - ★★★★
- Withnail & I, 1987 - ★★★★
- Withnail & I, 1987 - ★★★★
- 13th, 2016 - ★★★½
- 13th, 2016 - ★★★½
- Legally Blonde, 2001 - ★★★
- Legally Blonde, 2001 - ★★★
- Dateline: 2022-02-22
- The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Books 2022, 3)
- Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram by Iain Banks (Books 2022, 2)
- The Word on Wordle
- You Can Call Me Master
- Out, and Into Town
- The Beatles: Get Back, 2021 - ★★★★★
- Cold Winter Morning
- Nomadland, 2020 - ★★★½
- Don't Look Up, 2021 - ★★★½
- Beyond the Hallowed Sky by Ken MacLeod (Books 2021, 28)
- Lost at Christmas, 2020 - ★★★
- Starting the Year (and a Brief Look Back)
- Mary Poppins Returns, 2018 - ★★★½
- A Note I'd Like to Send Back Through Time
- Planetfall by Emma Newman (Books 2021, 27)
- Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots (Books 2021, 26)
- Pour One Out for Joe
- 'Spider-Man: No Way Home, 2021 - ★★★★'
- Comet Weather by Liz Williams (Books 2021, 25)
- A Song Needs Words
- Boosted
- 'The Beatles: Get Back, 2021 - ★★★★★'
- The French Dispatch, 2021 - ★★★★
- The Caledonian Gambit by Dan Moren (Books 2021, 23)
- Get Back to Christmas
- The Origin of Angels?
- Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (Books 2021, 22)
- Songs and Singles
- Adventures in Mac Repairs
- Count Zero by William Gibson (Books 2021, 21)
- No Country for Old Men, 2007 - ★★½
- The Matrix Revolutions, 2003 - ★★★½
- Neuromancer by William Gibson (Books 2021, 20)
- Our Last, Best, Hope for TV?
- Lanark: A Life in 4 Books by Alasdair Gray (Books 2021, 19)
- The Manchurian Candidate, 1962 - ★★★
- Rusty's Return
- First Line of Defence?
- Dissertation Submitted
- An American Story by Christopher Priest (Books 2021, 18)
- One Week Away
- Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge (Books 2021, 17)
- Big Planet by Jack Vance (Books 2021, 16)
- Whit by Iain Banks (Books 2021, 15)
- MA Latest
- The Matrix Reloaded, 2003 - ★★★½
- London Centric: Tales of Future London, Edited by Ian Whates (Books 2021, 14)
- The Exes by Pagan Kennedy (Books 2021, 13)
- Who's Next?
- Dragonfly, or Not?
- Passport to Pimlico, 1949 - ★★★★
- Multiple Points
- Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden (Books 2021, 12)
- Black Widow, 2021 - ★★★★
- Summerwater by Sarah Moss (Books 2021, 11)
- Hinton by Mark Blacklock (Books 2021, 10)
- Hit Me Up in the Comments
- Not So Quiet
- Not Killing It
- Two Weeks
- Moon Over Soho by Ben Aaronovitch (Books 2021, 9)
- Single Points
- Jonathan Richman and the Handwritten Interview
- Friends: The Reunion, 2021 - ★★★
- That Summer Feeling
- It's Never Good When a Useful Site Gets Bought
- Vax 2
- Can't Get You Out of My Head, 2021
- Mark E Smith (Co-)Wrote a Screenplay
- BSAG On Creativity
- Winter’s Writing
- Sisters with Transistors, 2020 - ★★★★
- Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith (Books 2021, 7)
- Pastieland and Getting Sick
- Bernard and the Cloth Monkey by Judith Bryan (Books 2021, 6)
- Ocean's Eight, 2018 - ★★★½
- A Dead Cat in Downing Street
- At the Olympic Park Again
- OffMail
- Emma., 2020 - ★★★
- This Is England, 2006 - ★★★★
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron (Books 2021, 5)
- Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, 2020 - ★★★★
- North Star
- Bookshops are Back
- Good Vibrations, 2012 - ★★★★
- Palm Springs, 2020 - ★★★★½
- How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee (Books 2021, 4)
- On Giving Up On a Book
- End of Term 2
- Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle, 1987 - ★★★½
- Alphaville, 1965 - ★★★
- They Don't Call it 'Fastmail' for Nothing
- Astral Zen
- This Is A Test
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things, 2020 - ★★½
- Corona Vu
- The Mystery of Henri Pick, 2019 - ★★★★
- Education, 2020 - ★★★½
- Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (Books 2021, 3)
- No Project, Plenty of Fear
- After the Money's Gone
- The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque, 1993 - ★★½
- The Tree, the Mayor and the Mediatheque, 1993 - ★★½
- A Year Passes Like Nothing
- Pretend It's a City, 2021 - ★★★½
- Rocks, 2019 - ★★★★
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo (Books 2021, 2)
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (Books 2021, 1)
- Red, White and Blue, 2020 - ★★★★
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, 2019 - ★★★★½
- Official Secrets, 2019 - ★★★★
- It's the Wrong Time of Year for Shorts
- Lovers Rock, 2020 - ★★★½
- Mangrove, 2020 - ★★★★
- Rebecca, 2020 - ★★★
- The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019 - ★★★½
- Four Years Gone
- Performing Pages
- A Pasta Mystery
- Blog Stats 2020
- The Monsters We Deserve by Marcus Sedgwick (Books 2020, 30)
- Endings
- Xstabeth by David Keenan (Books 2020, 29)
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Books 2020, 28)
- Rees-Mogg and the New Depths
- The Towers The Fields The Transmitters by David Keenan (Books 2020, 27)
- Stop Your Glasses Steaming Up by Sticking the Top of Your Mask to Your Face Using Micropore Tape
- Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail 72 by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2020, 26)
- Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (Books 2020, 25)
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor (Books 2020, 24)
- Masters Update
- When Election Night Went On For Days
- Writing About Writing About Typography
- The Secret Place by Tana French (Books 2020, 23)
- In the Sky With Diamonds
- Wheeling the Reinvention
- Colliding Names
- Covid Track
- Not Discworld, Not Batman
- When the Going Gets WEIRD
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf (Books 2020, 22)
- How I'm Going To Master this Writing Lark
- How Johnson’s Lawbreaking Plans Will Harm the UK
- Walker, 1987 - ★★★½
- If the Prime Minister's a Junkie, the Public Has a Right to Know
- On Devs
- Another Superb Nightmare Courtesy of Charlie Kaufman?
- Woolf Banks
- Arrival, 2016 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers)
- My Contributions to Nikola
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark (Books 2020, 21)
- Ad Subtract
- 2020: An Isolation Odyssey
- The Guardian Might Stop Being a Printed Paper
- People Still Aren't Getting It
- Annabel Scheme and the Adventure of the New Golden Gate by Robin Sloan (Books 2020, 20)
- HEY, Ho, Let's Not Go
- The Angel of the Crows by Katherine Addison (Books 2020, 19)
- Surface Detail by Iain M Banks (Books 2020, 18)
- The Latest Tory Plan to Attack the NHS
- The Adventures of Luther Arkwright and Heart of Empire by Bryan Talbot (Books 2020, 16 & 17)
- A Reply From the Masks Petition
- The Monster (Wear a Mask!)
- The Cold War Never Ended
- Tell Them to Tell Us to Wear a Mask
- This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (Books 2020, 15)
- Friday by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 14)
- You Are Your Thoughts (I Think)
- Assignment in Eternity vols 1 & 2 by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 12 & 13)
- Site Update
- The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 11)
- What Must Be Said
- How Iceland Beat the Coronavirus
- Peel Sessions
- Beyond This Horizon by Robert A Heinlein (Books 2020, 10)
- Glasgow Fairytale by Alastair D McIver (Books 2020, 9)
- Boiling a Frog by Christoper Brookmyre (Books 2020, 8)
- We Have No Idea How Many of the Deaths Attributed to Covid-19 Really Were Due to the Disease
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Books 2020, 7)
- Lying Sack
- The Beat(les) Generation is Slipping Away
- Tip: How to Snooze iPhone Alarms Using Hardware Buttons
- Homemade Rolls
- This Is No Time to Unlock
- When Harry Met Sally..., 1989 - ★★★★
- Returning Blogs
- No More...
- Ayoade On Top by Richard Ayoade (Books 2020, 6)
- Static Leads to Static
- Repairability Is Good
- Tate and Tennant Killing It
- Misbehaviour, 2020 - ★★★½
- The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene (Books 2020, 5)
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, 1988 - ★★★
- Sunset Boulevard, 1950 - ★★★½
- Website Changes
- The Last Bike Ride
- Howl's Moving Castle, 2004 - ★★★★½
- Erin Brockovich, 2000 - ★★★★
- Wear a Mask! And Celebrate Your Immune System
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Books 2020, 4)
- The Big Short, 2015 - ★★½
- Writing News
- Crazy Rich Asians, 2018 - ★★★½
- Venturing Out: A Status Report from Hackney
- Bajrangi Bhaijaan, 2015 - ★★★★★
- Booksmart, 2019 - ★★★½
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Books 2020, 3)
- The Clash On Display
- Glen Matlock Remembers How to Rock, but Nearly Forgets the Songs That Put Him Where He Is
- Late Night, 2019 - ★★★
- Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★½
- Fighting with My Family, 2019 - ★★★½
- The Grand Budapest Hotel, 2014 - ★★★
- The Cabin in the Woods, 2011 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers)
- Springsteen On Broadway, 2018 - ★★★★
- Jojo Rabbit, 2019 - ★★★½
- The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 2)
- The End of the Dream. The Start of the Resistance
- Thing 2: Horsin’ Around
- Thing 1: How Good is the Place?
- In the Departure Lounge
- Irony Failure Among Elite Headteachers
- Who, Yes!
- Little Women, 2019 - ★★★★
- Brazil, 1985 - ★★★★★
- JetBrains Mono: Equal or Not
- Who the What?
- The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa (Books 2020, 1)
- 2019 in Bloggery
- Christmas Day by the Lea (or Lee)
- Transition by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 25)
- Eyes Full of Tinsel and Fire
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Tempest by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill (Books 2019, 24)
- Calling From London
- Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 - ★★★½
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2019, 23)
- Knives Out, 2019 - ★★★½
- OA Going Away
- Broken Glass
- The Politics We Deserve?
- Fear and Loathing All Over the Land
- Interstellar, 2014 - ★★★★½
- You Gev It Away
- Watchmen on TV
- The Favourite, 2018 - ★★★
- Labour and Antisemitism
- The Book of Dust vol 2: The Secret Commonwealth by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 22)
- Election Debates: Maybe Better Left
- Kieron's Comic, Brontë's Book
- His Dark Materials on TV
- I, Daniel Blake, 2016 - ★★★★★
- Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons (Books 2019, 21)
- Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman (Books 2019, 18, 19 & 20)
- 8 Women, 2002 - ★★★
- Election Blues
- On Pausing Stories
- For Sama, 2019 - ★★★★★
- Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2019, 17)
- Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 16)
- More on Tarantino
- Otherhood, 2019 - ★★★½
- Inglourious Basterds, 2009 - ★★★★
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Books 2019, 15)
- Downton Abbey, 2019 - ★★★★
- Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004 - ★★★½
- The Seventh Function of Language, by Laurent Binet, Translated by Sam Taylor (Books 2019, 14)
- Isle of Dogs, 2018 - ★★★★
- The End of Newspaper Delivery
- Jason & Dan
- The 392 by Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Books 2019, 12)
- What Was Lost by Catherine O’Flynn (Books 2019, 11)
- Milkman by Anna Burns (Books 2019, 10)
- Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Books 2019, 9)
- Touch by Claire North (Books 2019, 8)
- In Dreams: A Unified Interpretation of Twin Peaks & Other Selected Works of David Lynch, by H Perry Horton (Books 2019, 7)
- Europe Elects
- Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Books 2019, 6)
- Planetary by Warren Ellis and John Cassady (Books 2019, 5)
- Two Wheels Good
- New Job Obtained
- Words Matter. Phrasing Matters
- Job Changing
- Parrots! In Hackney!
- EU Citizens
- Marina's on Fire Again
- OK/Cancel
- Partners
- What's Next for Brexit?
- The Beats: a Very Short Introduction (Books 2019, 4)
- England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock, by Jon Savage (Books 2019, 3)
- Chile Trip, Part 3: Valparaíso, City of Colour
- The Honest Graffitologist
- Unhelpful Thoughts On Brexit
- We Are The Clash by Mark Andersen and Ralph Heibutzki (Books 2019, 2)
- The Compulsive Pursuit of a Product That Does Us Only Harm
- Bragging
- Nick Cave on AI and Songwriting
- “Why’s it taking so long? We should just leave!” | The Reinvigorated Programmer
- Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (Books 2019, 1)
- Italian Coffee is the Best
- Bing Me the Head of the Marketing Team
- Who's Who?
- Blogging the Bitface, 2018 Style
- Creative Selection by Ken Kocienda (Books 2018, 31)
- Stormwatch by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney and Bryan Hitch (Books 2018, 30)
- The Drifters by James A Michener (Books 2018, 29)
- I’m In A Book About The Clash
- Atmosphere
- EU Figures Rule Out Concessions as May Postpones Brexit Vote
- Na? No
- Rude and Rough
- Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is
- Ex-Corbyn Fan
- Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith (Books 2018, 28)
- March in October
- Chile Trip, Part 2: Santiago, Street Art, and More
- Promethea by Alan Moore, JH Williams III, Mick Gray & Todd Klein (Books 2018, 27)
- Musical Malady
- Lethal White by Robert Galbraith (Books 2018, 26)
- Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Books 2018, 25)
- This Is Memorial Device by David Keenan (Books 2018, 24)
- Chile Trip Part 1: There and Back
- Gilded Cage, Tarnished City, and Bright Ruin by Vic James (Books 2018, 21, 22, 23)
- Same Desert, Same Day
- Dreams Before the Start of Time, by Anne Charnock (Books 2018, 20)
- The Algebraist, by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 19)
- Walking on Glass by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 18)
- The Great Banksie Reread
- Radically Interoperable and Universal
- REPL Reply
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 17)
- Trumping Through London
- Matter by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 16)
- Inversions by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 15)
- Espedair Street by Iain Banks (Books 2018, 14)
- Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 13)
- They Took Something Very Weird and Made It More Usable
- New iPad Keyboard
- Microsoft to Buy GitHub?
- A ride in the sky at All Points East.
- Beware of Email Apps Storing Passwords
- It's Inconvenient to Talk
- The Book of Dust vol 1: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman (Books 2018, 12)
- Office Foliage
- Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman (Books 2018, 11)
- Duplex Duplicity?
- Looped
- Spring
- Top-Ten Album Lists
- Marathon Barbers
- Injection Vols 1-3 by Warren Ellis, Declan Shalvey, and Jordie Bellaire (Books 2018, 10)
- Bizarre Romance by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell (Books 2018, 9)
- Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff (Books 2018, 8)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2018, 7)
- The Audrey and Eddie Show
- Tab Convert
- 2023: A Trilogy by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu (Books 2018, 6) 📚🎵
- Speaking of Spring...
- How the Seasons Change
- Looks Like I Chose the Wrong Week to Start Working in Academia
- Imperial Adventures
- A Special Way of Being Afraid
- Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier by Mark Frost (Books 2018, 5)
- Sourdough by Robin Sloan (Books 2018, 4)
- Feersum Endjinn by Iain M Banks (Books 2018, 3)
- I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon (Books 2018, 2) 📚🎵
- The Fallen
- Star Doctors
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer (Books 2018, 1)
- Clarke Kickstarted
- Lana, What?
- I Never Thought I'd See the Day...
- Crazy Copyright Claim
- Mouse Takes Fox
- Burn it With Fire (Stick)
- A Five and Four Zeroes
- Finished
- Jerusalem by Alan Moore (Books 2017, 5)
- Rock and Death
- Missing Dates
- To Nano or Not?
- On Blade Runner 2049
- Faces and Feeds
- The Kickstarter Corporate Communication Conundrum
- Blades and Running
- Trekking
- Harvest Home
- Universal Harvester by John Darnielle (Books 2017, 4)
- Setting Myself Free of the Bear (and Others)
- New Job
- Some Open-Source Software for Your Delectation
- Not the Nails I'm Looking For
- Site Moved
- Mayday for Human Rights
- Mayhemic Mistake of Two-Year Parliament
- Great New Phone; All the Wrong Reasons
- Micro.blog iOS Going Universal | Manton Reece
- A Firefighter's Words On Grenfell Tower
- General Election: Vote!
- Right Wing Pirates to Plague the Med
- Extreme Pyramid Scheme
- Losing the War on Terror
- BBC Close Their Store Without Explaining Why
- The Sound of Audio Formats
- Landmark European Court Case Could Curtail Freedoms of British Dual Nationals
- Space Suits You
- Wood and Puzzles
- Protect the Human Rights Act
- The Syllogism of Betrayal
- The Luxury of Outrage
- Smile, You're on Emoji Camera
- Spout Rolla
- Scattered Thoughts on the General Election
- Everything Rhymes
- So, Entitled
- BSFA Awards 2016 by Various (Books 2017, 3)
- Margaret Atwood's Uncanny Ancestor
- You Choose
- Swim, Test, Shop, Film, Sleep
- Looking Back and Forward
- Punk and Hugo
- Big Mac News
- Interesting Lineup
- Brexit and Northern Ireland
- Another Kind of Town
- Some Town
- The Night Before
- Singles
- Publishers and Sinners
- Demo
- So Many Black Pixels...
- Podcast Ads and Pricing
- Laptop Ban Stranger Than I Thought
- Stupid Fawning Lapdog Government Apes the US Again
- Vanessa Bell and Princess Leia
- The Return of SonoAir
- Wiretaps and Wipeouts
- Broadchurch Thoughts
- And Then it Was All That
- Saved Life
- Interrupting-Kids Video and Analysis Thereof
- Misbehaviour Again
- Whether You Want To Or Not
- Stiff Little Memories
- Missed Again: What a Catastrophe
- Little, Feat...
- The Writing Process
- Pivoting Around Words
- Reassessing
- Footnotes Revisited
- Under the Television Skies
- Tory MP Claims Astrology Could Help the NHS
- Memorials
- Oscar Action
- More Network Nonsense
- Mac Wishing
- Wifi Blues
- “Ping” Pong
- Civil Disappointment
- Maybe
- Whoops!
- Brain Explain
- Great Brexit
- Right Message, Wrong Messenger
- Why Liberals Are Wrong About Trump
- It's Not Tomorrow if You Haven't Gone to Sleep yet
- All the Things in the World
- Why Are MPs Doing It?
- Brexit Hope?
- Placeholder
- Daily Posting Harder When You're Away
- Ticket Captcha Fail
- "Thread" Dread
- Optics
- International Clash Day
- Criticality Escalation
- Should a Blog Have a Theme?
- Some More Bitface Thoughts
- The Origin of the Bitface
- Success for Micro.blog
- Beginning of the End
- One Month Gone
- Which is Worse?
- Things We Can’t See
- Lost Drafts
- Rezillos Gig
- Democracy, Representation, and the Will of the People
- Obama in Your Ears
- A Song of Stone by Iain Banks (Books 2017, 2)
- I Wrote to my MP
- More on The OA
- Trump, Nixon, and Subjectivity
- Trumpeting
- Poetry and Politics
- Thanks, Obama (for Real)
- The Only Good Brexit is No Brexit
- The Strange Case of the Lost Reply
- Oh, Eh?
- Probably a Good Time to Download Your Twitter Archive
- Just to Make the Numbers
- Duck(Duck)ing the User Interface
- Surely There's a Better Answer Than That?
- Blog Misbehaviour
- Independent Microblogging
- Content Provider
- Things That Should be Easy
- Getting Rid of Offensive Publications in Apple News Widget
- Trump Not Appointing Palin as Scientific Advisor
- The Secret History of Twin Peaks by Mark Frost (Books 2017, 1)
- Recent Events
- The Year Turns Again
- Complicity and The Business by Iain Banks (Books 2016 16 & 17)
- Classy
- Again, Again
- Screwjack by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2016, 15)
- Can We Stick With Labour Now?
- Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock by Amy Raphael (Books 2016, 14)
- Trump/Schulz
- On the Pronunciation of "X"
- Huffington Trump
- Reamde By Neal Stephenson (Books 2016, 13)
- The Sandman: Overture by Neil Gaiman and others (Books 2016, 12)
- Normal by Warren Ellis (Books 2016, 11)
- Sally Heathcote, Suffragette by Mary M Talbot, Kate Charlesworth and Bryan Talbot (Books 2016, 10)
- The Sadness of Empty Seats
- Proposed New Cycling Race for the Olympics: the "Commuter Race"
- Smith & Jones
- Jerry Doyle Dead
- Some Thoughts On Software Development
- Brexit Latest Thoughts
- Self-Hosting
- Laurie Penny Rules
- On Corbyn, Electability, and Compromise
- Recent Events
- He is not a team player let alone a team leader
- Pamela Constable on her parents' WASP values
- After Nice, Don’t Give ISIS What It’s Asking For
- Putting the "Mental" into Governmental
- Pokémon Gone
- How in the World are they Making that Sound?
- All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (Books 2016, 9)
- Sixty-Three Percent
- The Reinvigorated Programmer on the Referendum
- More Referendum Thoughts
- Referendum Thoughts
- The Apocalypse Codex by Charles Stross (Books 2016, 8)
- A Day of Infamy
- Who Killed Sherlock Holmes? by Paul Cornell (Books 2016, 7
- The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi (Books 2016, 6)
- Relaunch
- I Upgraded my MacBook
- Awakening
- Selfie Thoughts
- Patience by Daniel Clowes (Books 2016, 5)
- Daily Mail Taking Over Yahoo?
- A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (Books 2016, 4)
- Patience
- The Rapture of the Nerds by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross (Books 2016, 3)
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K Dick (Books 2016, 2)
- Three Moments of an Explosion: Stories, by China Miéville (Books 2016, 1)
- PC
- January
- Moffat Leaving Who
- Java isn't slow
- Woman Who Shot at Home Depot Shoplifters Vows to Never Help Anyone Again - The New York Times
- Revenge of the Prequels
- Hell and Heaven
- Memories of 2003
- Heaven and Lords
- Raven and... What?
- Sleep and No Raven?
- Invasion and Inversion
- Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith (Books 2015, 9)
- Apprentice and Familiar
- Attack of the Clowns, or: Send in the Clones
- Died and Lived
- Lake and Flood
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Translated by Ken Liu (Books 2015, 8)
- Leadership
- Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel (Books 2015, 7)
- On Djs, Beats 1, and Talking Over Songs
- Mind of My Mind by Octavia E Butler (Books 2015, 6)
- Drive-By Brucellosis
- The South’s Heritage Is So Much More Than a Flag
- Wild Seed by Octavia E Butler (books, 2015, 5)
- The Phantom Menace
- Test from Editorial
- Today's xkcd is weirdly compelling
- The Tories want to reintroduce the Lord Chamberlain
- The night after, and shame
- On things never seen
- Neither tempestuous nor particularly challenging
- Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Books 2015, 4)
- Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
- Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson (books 2015, 3)
- The first time
- URLs and searching
- On missing out on Zane
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (Books 2015, 2)
- Sons of Bill, Hoxton.
- Never really expected to get another new Iain Banks book. But here we are.
- At Hackney Downs station.
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Books 2015, 1)
- Newsflash: the Firefly guys were villains
- Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine (Books 2014, 20)
- Eclipse SVN key bindings not working
- The Schrödinger's Cat trilogy, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 19)
- Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey (Books 2014, 18)
- The Illuminatus! trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2014, 17)
- An elective monarchy, again
- Sir Gawain and the Green Night translated by Bernard O'Donoghue (Books 2014, 15)
- How to fix the UK constitution
- Netflix: because your DVDS are allll the way over there
- Doctor Who: The Writer's Tale: the Final Chapter by Russell T Davies and Benjamin Cook (Books 2014, 14)
- Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Books 2014, 13)
- Thin
- Hijacked
- Dotter of her Father's Eyes by Mary M Talbot and Bryan Talbot (Books 2014, 12)
- EU 'benefit tourism' court ruling is common sense, says Cameron
- On Writing by AL Kennedy (Books 2014, 11)
- MPs to escape expenses investigations after paperwork destroyed by Parliament - Telegraph
- The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith (books, 2014, 10)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon (Books 2014, 9)
- Suzi Q, where are you?
- BBC Music Greatest Covers
- The Severed Streets by Paul Cornell (Books 2014, 8)
- The tragedy of the Liberal Democrats
- Space bat angel dragons hatch in their own way
- The morning after
- Andy's unpunctuated ambiguity
- Awra Best, Scotland
- Waving
- Panic in Westminster
- Chatsworth Road Festival, September 2014
- Hackney's latest piece of gentrification: comics
- Oncoming independence?
- The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson (Books 2014, 7)
- Pavane by Keith Roberts (Books, 2014, 6)
- Aye, (Head)Phones
- Kippers for Tea
- Religion, Faith Schools, and 'The Great Pumpkin'
- The State of Me, by Nasim Marie Jafry (Books 2014, 4)
- Secret Diaries
- The First Three Books of the Year
- Link: The One Correct Way to do Dependency Injection | Schauderhaft
- Tony Benn
- Some People Left for Heaven Without Warning...
- Weirdest Customer Request?
- Another Lost Month, and Unpublished Posts
- Missing Months
- 2001: The aliens that almost were
- The Summer of Rereading, 3: More Culture
- The Summer of Rereading, 2: A Culture of Marvel and Miracles
- He's really a guitar player but he uses a camera
- The Summer of Rereading 1: The Magus, by John Fowles
- Cultural Times
- Forgot the Cry of Gulls
- We Are The Clash: The Last Stand of a Band That Mattered by Mark Andersen & Ralph Heibutzki — Kickstarter
- The Third-Person Sanctimonious
- The Scented City
- Understanding a Misunderstanding
- Hackney Sunset
- Pulp Magazine Covers for All
- Day Trip
- Strange Blog Behaviour
- November spawned some words (but not that many)
- Warren Ellis on Writing Dialogue
- Scapple: new from Literature and Latte
- New Camera; Also Reviewing Purchases
- Generation: Inspired
- Olympics: fencing and more Park views
- Olympics: some photos from the Park
- Olympian Achievements
- Google is Buying Sparrow, but not Updating the Apps
- A British Court Bans a TV Broadcast
- Tip: using Pandoc to create truly standalone HTML files
- Bash - how to recursively find the latest modified file in a directory
- Weekend Warblers
- A Line, a Loop, a Tangle of Timey-Wimeyness
- Voting Time Again
- Weird Law-Enforcement Things
- A Drop of the Hard Stuff
- Paul Weller in "Good Album" Shock!
- Desperate sun-seekers
- Eyelash car
- Penguin Pete's Blog - Using Bash To Solve A Brain Teaser
- In an astounding example of metaness, this Instagram pic should generate a blog post, using ifttt.com
- Terror, or Not; and Bail
- Pass-By-Reference Problem When Using Websphere Application Server
- Your Friendly Olympic Park
- Cluttered by Google, Lost by Bing
- The Felice Brothers
- Autumn Roses
- The Words that Maketh Novels
- Smashing Things Up for 35 Years
- 88 Lines About The End Of Reasons To Leave The Elements
- Aliens Among Us
- Hardcore Knows the Score
- Golden times of British TV comedy
- Intrusive login options
- Boycott News International for life? I already did.
- World of the Newspaper
- Rainy Day Music and SF at the BL
- [H]is baritone sax tugged at the bottom of the track like taffy on the sole of a sneaker.
- Father's Weekend
- Tell, and Maybe Show as Well
- Let's All Say "Yes"
- Moxyland, by Lauren Beukes
- Emusic Followup
- Emusic and Re-downloading
- Come Gather Round, People
- Thoughts on Business Sectors
- Link: Writers’ Bloc – a Literary Band
- Republicans: good at theatre, dreadful at governing
- New Year Activities
- New?
- NoNo
- Tank-Tops and Dolls
- The Day After Hallowe'en
- Maccetty Mac
- Link: Screenwriting Tip Of The Day by William C. Martell - Romeo to Rambo
- Summer Reading 2010
- Moat Again
- Who Lays Flowers for a Murderer?
- Con/Dem Nation?
- Election Tweets 'n' Stuff
- The Big Disappointment
- Link: How to Write a Story, by Robert Jackson Bennett
- Link: "Long-standing party loyalties, even in a less tribal world, are not easily suspended"
- From Easter to Volcano Days
- Subway Calling
- Easter Time is Here Again
- Magnetism
- Next-Door to a Sequel
- Link: An Awesome Interpretation of Avatar
- Decade's End
- Link: A Self-Referential Story
- A quote from Amanda Palmer: asking for money for your art is not selling out
- Link: Do I know where hell is? Hell is in "Hello"
- Link: A report on FT.com: The man who invented exercise
- Transitions in Real Life?
- Live Jello show
- Michael Marshall Smith speaks wisely on opinions on the internet
- I really need to post more
- Publication
- Without Twitter, how will we know what's happening?
- Masks of the Illuminati, by Robert Anton Wilson (Books 2008, 21)
- Snow by Orhan Pamuk (Books 2008, 20)
- The System of the World, by Neal Stephenson (books 2008, 19)
- Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (Books 2008, 18)
- Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street, by Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson (Books 2008, 17)
- A poem
- Adverbs, by Daniel Handler (Books 2008, 16)
- American Flagg episodes 1-30 (and special 1), by Howard Chaykin and others (Books 2008, 15)
- Halting State, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 13)
- Lazarus Churchyard: The Final Cut, by Warren Ellis and D'Israeli (Books 2008, 14)
- Veniss Underground, by Jeff Vandermeer (Books 2008, 12)
- I'll stand before the Lord of Song
- Too long gone
- Yes you can!
- Queues
- Worrier president
- A quote from Warren Ellis
- ThiGMOO, by Eugene Byrne (Books 2008, 11)
- Corporal punishment: not on my watch
- I phone, you phone
- Mad bampot on a rope
- Exciting times
- Watermelon Sculpture
- A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket (Books, 2008, 10)
- The London cabbie: good and bad
- What's that stand for?
- FF3 on Linux
- The Gun Club
- A Dream of Wessex, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 9)
- Water on Mars
- Fluidity
- The Space Machine, by Christopher Priest (Books 2008, 8)
- 42 referendums and and a resignation
- Newton's Wake: A Space Opera, by Ken MacLeod (books 2008, 7)
- Trying out Drivel
- Novelist Joanna Kavenna points out that I was wrong
- Identity and letdown in The Raw Shark Texts, by Steven Hall (books 2008, 6)
- The Einstein Intersection, by Samuel R Delany (Books 2008, 5)
- Floating
- Looking forward to hearing this
- British Summer Time, by Paul Cornell (Books 2008, 4)
- Time for writing crosses in booths, folks
- That 'reporting back from Eastercon' business
- Old Man's War, by John Scalzi (Books 2008, 3)
- Easter Weekend plans
- The Hidden Family, by Charles Stross (Books 2008, 2)
- On secondary school selection and the myth of choice
- Matter, by Iain M Banks (Books 2008, 1)
- Eee! PC.
- Messing around with the blog
- Human rights and human gains
- McQualifications
- A quote from Ken MacLeod with which to start the year
- Nutters, "Emigration, Death, Regret and Substance Abuse"
- Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis (Books 2007, 7)
- Cheerleader Saved, World Saved...
- Here's Tae Us
- The Scar, by China Miéville (Books 2007, 6)
- What Exactly Does it Mean to Book a Train Ticket, Anyway?
- A Bridge Not Far Enough
- The Return Of Some Futurists From The Past
- The Prestige, by Christopher Priest (Books 2007, 5)
- The Steep Approach to Garbadale, by Iain Banks (Books 2007, 4)
- Rock and No Roll
- A quote from Charlie Brooker
- The only 'Transformer' I really like is an album by Lou Reed
- Ink, by Hal Duncan (Books 2007, 3)
- Twenty Years of Foolin' and They Put You in the Pub
- We Need to Talk About Kevin, by Lionel Shriver (Books 2007, 2)
- Potter Week
- Son of a Preacher Man
- Redemption Song: the Definitive Biography of Joe Strummer, by Chris Salewicz (Books 2007, 1)
- The Last of the 2006 "Book Notes" Posts
- Guardian: "Straw signals rethink on ID cards"
- New Dawn Fades
- Ten Years in an Open-necked Shirt
- Diplomacy 101, and Cash for Stories
- Book Notes 25: The Family Trade, by Charles Stross
- Alias Doc and Martha
- Straight to Elgin Avenue
- Apologise, explain?
- The Steep Approach to Literary Acceptance
- Not Before Time to the nth power
- Book Notes 24: Variable Star, by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson
- A Deadline Crash, and a Reading
- Homophobic Christians
- One Device to Do It All?
- Book Notes 23: Quicksilver, by Neal Stephenson
- Dead Zen Master
- Book Notes 22: The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, by Neil Gaiman and Yoshika Amano
- Book Notes 21: The Sandman Midnight Theatre, by Neil Gaiman and others
- ... And a Happy New Year to All My Reader
- Book Notes 20: The Complete Ballad of Halo Jones by Alan Moore and Ian Gibson
- Book Notes 19: Tom Strong's Terrific Tales, by Alan Moore, Steve Moore, and others
- Book Notes 18: Radio Free Albemuth, by Philip K Dick
- Book Notes 17: Vellum, by Hal Duncan
- Book Notes 16: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, by Catherine Webb
- Death-Penalty Blues
- Book Notes 15: Appleseed, by John Clute
- Book Notes 14: Viriconium, by M John Harrison
- On Security at Stansted
- Copyright Matters – Pass It On
- Burning Silver Discs for Gold
- Book Notes 13: Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince, by JK Rowling
- My "Big England" piece is up at Temperama
- This Is England
- Book Notes 12: The Last Temptation, by Neil Gaiman and Michael Zulli
- Book Notes 11: The Originals, by Dave Gibbons
- Hackers crack new biometric passports
- On Countries, Nationhood, and Being Invited to Write a Guest Spot
- Middle-East Madness
- Book Notes 10: Skizz, by Alan Moore and Jim Baikie
- Book notes 9: Redemolished, by Alfred Bester
- Book notes 8: The Complete DR and Quinch, by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Heat, streets and beats
- WordPress, this blog, and the Google cache
- Welcome to Torchwood
- Supporters
- Book Notes 7: Nova Scotia, edited by Neil Williamson and Andrew J Wilson
- The Water of Life
- It doesn't matter who wins...
- Eye Contact, or: Pay Attention to the Web Behind the Curtain.
- Pachyderm Prestidigitation
- Calling all Green Wing fans
- Who the hell do we vote for?
- Clarke and the convicts
- In which Martin meets annoyances at Waterloo
- Transport against london
- Cafe culture
- Sleepwalking into a police state
- Stanslaw Lem
- Book Notes 6: Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Reading matters
- TV roundup: what I've been watching recently
- Maybe that revolution won't be needed, after all
- Pray the future will never need...
- Pray the future will never need...
- Abolition
- Meet the new blog...
- The Many-Angled Pub
- Book Notes 5: Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- A discussion of (possibly a rant about) ID
- Book Notes 4: American Gods by Neil Gaiman
- That about wraps it up for freedom
- Drink, Sex and Elections
- Book Notes 3: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Cory Doctorow
- Book Notes 2: Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
- Book Notes 1: A Dance to the Music of Time vol 1, by Anthony Powell
- The Rocky Pogue to Brixton
- Freedom Tickling
- Portable gaming/Santa question
- On the ethics of modifying blog posts
- Literary mind loss
- He was asking for it
- Resignation day
- Tears and Laugher in the Bookshop
- Post-exam comedown
- I claim this blog for Technorati...
- Today
- London bombs
- Software patents: dead in Europe
- 2012
- The afternoon after the morning after the night before
- Things can only get... different
- Digital death masks
- The Campaign Trail, 2005: the inevitable fear and loathing...
- Let's rock again
- Rounding up the year so far: still here
- Gonzo death song
- Disrespect the Authoritah!
- Writing, identity, and voting
- Post-teenage memories are pretty hard to beat, too
- Pack up Radio 1 and dismantle its transmitters...
- The time has come to rumble, to inject a bit of fun into politics
- On having my life back, and academia
- Wake-Up Call
- Metropolitan Drive-By
- More good US commentary
- [F]rom a low-key lounge groove to a scorched-earth crescendo
- Post-election injury report
- Voting decisions
- Lyrics quiz: answers
- Lyrics quiz by randomness
- Early-Days motion
- The post-scarcity tutorial
- Catch-up
- iSeries geekery
- Let fury have the hour, anger can be power
- Remember me, I used to live for music
- Clicking links is for wimps: real surfers type them in manually
- Warehouse: Posts and (no) Comments
- What's that Smell?
- The Whisky Post
- Blogiversary
- Microsoft's attempt to break email, and more
- Deepest Sender...
- Me Tired? Well Boo Hoo
- I thought it was in chamber six
- A Classical Education
- Pixies to reform?
- Things to do in Hackney when you're still alive
- Warren finally gets to sleep
- Moby gets it
- Go on Martin, do that thing where you make your username be the initials of songs
- What are we to do with Emusic?
- Open up
- Open Source rocks...
- It never sleeps, you know.
- Weapons of Mobile Inflation
- It ROCKS!
- With liver tea and just this for all [1]
- Why has Robert Johnson got methane on his mind?
- Home taping was good for music...
- What I did on my holidays (and off)
- You don't Meaney it!
- Non Serviam
- Do mention the war
- Is there an SF PM in the world? No.
- A (possibly) interesting blog for writers
- Mixing pop and politics, he asks me what the use is?
- Some ranting nutter with a blog talking about the modern business world
- I'm not willing to give it up, even if I don't know what it is
- Memetic morphology, or: How I wrote a lyrics quiz
- Another tube of superglue, another quarter to get through
- The magazines are gone
- Put on a kilt, dye your hair green, and dance to 'Xerox Machine'
- Plenty more won't work so slow
- Tomorrow I'll be burnt as a witch for playing punk rock
- I will upload you, you can download me
- All I wanna do is...
- OS of all I survey
- It just works!
- Let me tell you how it will be...
- New Potter!!!
- Meme lag
- Does anyone know how much a carpenter should cost?
- Picture credits
- The thief of time, or: Where the hell did those two years go?
- The Death of a Hero
- Spoof Christian site attacks The Two Towers
- When do we forgive?
- Oh, the humiliation
- Burning up the Blogosphere
- A first entry