What are you reading?

[pieces o nine]

Dusty Diablos

[Swatopluk]

Confidential (don't know why actually) internal documents

[Lindorm]

I have recently finished reading Kraken, China Mieville's latest novel.

A very good read, I must say. A strange and weird tale of conspiracy, cephalopods, the end of the world, cults, magic and trade unionism. Some might find this one a bit more straight-forward and accessible compared to his next-to-last book, The City and the City. Hopefully, I'll be able to write a more review-like post in the next few days or so, but meanwhile, if you like weird fiction and/or the Unknown Armies RPG, this one is absolutely for you.

[Swatopluk]

The BASF report on sustainable development 2009

[pieces o nine]

I have just picked up a copy of Stephen Colbert's I am America and So Can You. 
I hope it is everything I dreamed it would be...

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Lots and lots of wikipedia articles for an alternate history story I'm constructing. Note to self: post-Bismark European history is boring until things get too exciting with Hitler.

Also working my way through Lang's color fairy tale series. Currently reading Green.

[Swatopluk]

The writing on the wall that in 1 year, 2 weeks, and 2 days I'll with near certainty be unemployed again.
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More on sustainable chemistry

[Sibling DavidH]

OMFSM, Swato - why?  What's going on?

[Pachyderm]

Isn't that when the Old Ones arrive? Or the sheer volume of Big Brother Season Why Is This Shite Still Being Made on the TV reaches critical mass?


Planning and Natural Resources Division

A Northern Ireland Marine Bill Policy Proposals

Consultation Document


And yes, it's as exciting as it sounds...

[Swatopluk]

OMFSM, Swato - why?  What's going on?

Fixed-term contract meets severe budget cuts. Federal public service has to shed 10-15000 employees, so extension is extremly unlikely. And since I am not the only one any opening in another department (unlikley in itself) will have lots of applicants most of which will possess far longer experience.

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searching university curricula for sustainable chemistry

[Lindorm]

The BASF report on sustainable development 2009

Isn't that a bit like "military intelligence"?

Sorry to hear about the developments at your place of work. Keeping my fingers crossed for you! Maybe an eccentric millionaire wants someone to write a complete choral suite with a cthulufication of Wagner's Fliegende Holländer? Or perhaps that one is cthulhoid enough already?

[Lorst]

God - The failed hypothesis

by Victor J.Stenger

[Aggie]

The Case For God  -  Karen Armstrong  (still, have been picking away at it).

Also just finished The Way of a Gardener by Des Kennedy.

[Sibling DavidH]

The Case For God - now I would love to get my hands on that.

The Battle (Waterloo)
by Alessandro Barbero
I recommend it.  It makes sense out of a lot of the silly questions thrown up by many other accounts of the battle.

[Aggie]

The Case For God - now I would love to get my hands on that.

I strongly recommend you do - in many ways, it does not so much live up to the title as to explore the history and pre-history of humanity's concepts of God and to examine what the Abrahamic faiths in particular got wrong about it all.  Touches a bit on fundamentalisms (including modern fundamentalist Atheism) as well.  Reads equally well for a theist or an atheist, and would not tilt an agnostic one way or the other, I think.

If I win the big Canadian lotto next week, I will send a copy of this book to every Toadfish who wants one (and maybe a few who don't ).   It has me quite captured, obviously.