Cannon Beach, Oregon
Gritty and violent Swedish crime fiction, just released in the U.S.
It must be rough to be a Goldwater Republican these days.
Nic can’t understand how, in the most polarized election in history, anybody can be an undecided voter.
An important book on how technology is changing society.
Merlin Mann on the creative process.
Impressive first novel of a planned trilogy.
The weakest novel in John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War Universe.
Not William Gibson’s finest moment.
More screwed-up priorities from Republicans.
Wisdom from my great-uncle the farmer.
Nic is not impressed with Who Moved My Cheese.
A must-read for anybody interested in photography.
Excellent noir near-future sci-fi. Read it.
Apple gets greedy with MobileMe.
Resident Evil: Extinction, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, I am Legend, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, The Kingdom and Revolver.
The iPhone keyboard doesn’t support Swedish characters so Nic files a Radar bug.
Deeply disturbing book about the pressures of high-achieving high school students.
The third installment in Richard Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs saga is great.
Nic talks about the Swedish midsummer tradition. With pictures.