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Griliopoulos’s User Page – Last.fm I’ve just installed this on my computer; a piece of music preference tracking software that uploads its results to the interweb. It’s been around for ages, but the combination of a small, easy-to-use radio player and a tracking plug-in for almost any media player means I can finally work out…

Reading Gore Vidal’s great historical potboiler Julian (I suspect this is a repeat reading, though I may be confusing it with Count Belisarius by Robert Graves) I’m puzzled about Eunuchs. Yes, castration can retain a good voice and guarantees that the recipient won’t fuck around / think about his genetic legacy as he has none.…

Wired 13.11: The Mystery of the Green Menace: “One of the ingredients is thujone, a compound in wormwood that is toxic if it’s ingested, capable of causing violent seizures and kidney failure. Breaux hands me a bottle of pure liquid thujone. ‘Take a whiff,’ he says with an evil grin. I recoil at the odor…

This has been sat on my desktop for some time now, so I’d better get it out. Books are my life. I feel depressed and hungry when I can’t read, I lose my sense of self when I’m not defining it in relation to a piece of literature. My primary horror in life is book…

Fantasy Basketball Advice – Fantasy Basketball Cafe 2005: “There are two ways to define the phrase “Drafting with your eyes closed”. Number 1: Flushed with confidence, you breeze through every round, knowing that whoever you pick will turn out just magical, like a new-millennium, high-definition version of the original Dream Team, but with sexier shorts.…