I'm incredibly chuffed to learn that the Japanese edition of Little Brother is up for this year's Seiun award, along with Bacigalupi's Windup Girl, Mieville's The City & the City, Wilson's Chronoliths, Delany's Dhalgren and Ballad's Millennium People.
Big in Japan!
Neal Stephenson's guide to writing books with a fountain pen
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The original Pinocchio was a dark parable about a world of lies
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This is the $60 Montessori-inspired kids' app that won't leave you feeling guilty afterward
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PDFs fill you with dread? Save yourself the stress with a PDF reader
Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Stop fearing your PDFs! Easily edit, convert, annotate, and master your PDFs with this license to PDF… READ THE REST
Microsoft Office 2024 puts the old reliables back on your PC
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