Books

*Bad Science* is drawn from the Guardian column of the same name, as well as the many other things that Ben Goldacre covers on his [website](http://www.badscience.net/). The main…

I've done a little research to work out what the Amazon Kindle is charging for international content in Australia. This is only relevant for people that are not…

I'm a big fan of money. I don't just mean in the mundane "it's nice to spend sense". Money is a profoundly weird, incredible invention. It is ultimately…

When I first started reading this book my wife thought it was a waste of time. She said that I was already pretty much in touch with my…

Books that I've finished since May or so this year: *Six Easy Pieces*, Richard Feynman *Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets*, David Simon *Shambling Towards Hiroshima*, James…

I just recently re-read an old favourite of mine, the *[Hyperion Cantos](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos)* by Dan Simmons. The *Cantos* is a sequence of four books: * [Hyperion](http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FHyperion-Dan-Simmons%2Fdp%2F0553283685%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1202698881%26sr%3D8-2&tag=exaspercalcul-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=9325) * [The Fall…

Don't read on unless you've read the book or don't care about spoilers.

One more night until Book 7. The only real purpose of this post is to provide fair warning: as of Sunday morning, I may be posting spoilers to…

The Harry Potter books look like they're pretty strongly in the Fantasy genre: dragons, magic, centaurs, etc. But there's actually an older genre that the Harry Potter series…

Adapting a book to film is not easy. There are not many succesful examples around, and what few there are (Blade Runner, for instance) drift a very long…