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Excellent news. We’re not quite at the point where I’d want to dump my daily paper for a digital Daily Me, but we’re getting closer. The iRex Reader 1000 offers a 10.2-inch diagonal E-Inkscreen, far larger than Kindle’s 6-inch screen or even iRex’s own 8.1-inch diagonal iLiad, its last e-book model. That stretched display is… [more]
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Here we go again. Metallica appear to be following in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ footsteps, releasing an album that’s so compressed it’s painful to listen to. And that’s painful in a “shit sound” way, not a “woo! Scary metal!” way. the released CD version is – to coin a technical phrase – smashed to… [more]
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Following on from the news that Eoin Colfer, best known for the Artemis Fowl books, will be writing the next book in the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, I have my own announcement: I’ve been commissioned to write the sequel to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Obviously I can’t say too much about it, but I can… [more]
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Great post on Broadstuff: If you read Techmeme, the aggregator of news in the Technosphere, you may not have noticed that the world’s financial markets nearly collapsed yesterday and that the world is again looking at a 1930’s style Great Depression scenario. You would not know that artist Damien Hirst flogged off £70m of “fine… [more]
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Details and video at TG Daily. Manufacturer’s blurb: Differentiated by a stunning form factor (the size of 8.5 x 11-inch paper), the Plastic Logic reader features a big readable display. Yet it’s thinner than a pad of paper, lighter than many business periodicals, and offers a high-quality reading experience – better than alternatives of paper… [more]
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You might think I’m only linking to the YouTube clip of Noel Gallagher being attacked on stage so I can use that headline. You’re right. [more]
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Later today the boffins at CERN will switch on the Large Hadron Collider, which will – depending on who you believe – usher in a brave new era in physics, turn the planet into Swiss cheese, or open a portal for Satan to come and enslave us all. Which may well overshadow the latest iPod.… [more]
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Sony’s recalling a whole bunch of Vaio TZ laptops because of an unfortunate “burny burny” feature that’s slipped into some of them. The recall includes these models: All model numbers beginning “VGN TZ1” (e.g. VGN-TZ11XN/B) All model numbers beginning “VGN TZ2” (e.g. VGN-TZ21WN/B) Certain model numbers beginning “VGN TZ3” (e.g. VGN-TZ31VN/R) Full UK details here.… [more]
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Pointless but amusing survey via the BBC: Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle Chart pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease Jazz: appalling taste in music, ugly shoes I may have made one of those up. [more]
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Nope – at least, nope for iPhoto and iTunes libraries. This is a job for Captain Ethernet. [more]
Read me in books
My debut memoir, Carrie Kills A Man, was a Scotsman book of the year and Damian Barr’s Literary Salon book of the week, and it was shortlisted for the 2023 British Book Awards book of the year in the Discover category.
My latest book, Small Town Joy, is a celebration of queer influences on and queer artists in Scots music and is out now.
I’m also a contributor to the excellent anthology Fierce Salvage, which is also out now.
