i had dreamt about the future namely the state of the USA by 2100 no longer the united super power but mainly a culture rather than a national consensus with the flag we recognise now changed but still flying with no stars and stripes neither terran empire nor folksy apocalypse in the future how the world ends up without the idea or existence of separate countries by 2079 i do not know - just an idea we grow out of!
read the force unleashed II more of a game plot than a novel with the all the game piece charactors the stormtroopers and battle droids , clones and star destoyers, lord vader and rebel scum
a series of fight scenarios and diferent levels of print based capture nad rescue scenarios around the same as before tale of lord vaders dark apprentice starkiller only in this case a good for the force clone only thing missing jar jar binks leading a crack legion of jawas and ewoks deep behind imperial lines but expect that is still awating publication good for game level in that you can kill jar jar binks again and again because he is only a clone well thats my excuse anyway
Beside the Seaside: A Celebration of the Place We Like to Be by jane struthers a tyical wikpedia of a book with short text piecwes on everything form identifying palnts that grown on sand dunes to how to make lemonade and onto smugglers ballads and legend of the finfolk strangely good
The Shallows: How the Internet is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember yet enough internet bad in places book
yet anothert diatribe against googlefacetwitterflickr
this has one theory that the internet with its clicking on hyperlinks is thr technology of forgetfullness gives carr a chance to talk about his 1986 mac plus with 1mb of memory and recall the pleasures of using hypercard !
reading this got my all full of fond memories of CP/M and osborne 2 first computer in 1986 the luddite! but tended to distract from what Carr was saying which was the psychology of the hyberlink and learning process changing to adapt to it
the first blitz by neil hanson the secet german plan to raze london to the ground in 1918 yet another book on the german air raids 1915-1918 from zeppelins to gothas the actual unrealised plan to firebomb london and paris does not appear until the last chapter
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