Books on Graeme's

God, suffering and science fiction

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:50:48 +0000

The old, and much debated, question of why a benevolent and omnipotent God would allow suffering has many answers, but there is a more intuitive grasp of one answer to be found in works of fiction (at least one by an atheist).

Free, media experiment - final week

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 02:57:31 +0000

The last week of my experiment in consuming only free media for a month came to an end yesterday. It has been a huge success as far as books are concerned, and reasonable with regard to video. Music was harder to find (apart from classical).

The build a platform and squeeze business model

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:16:50 +0000

A business model that excludes competition, reduces consumer choice, and creates monopolies is the anti-thesis for free markets, but this is exactly what threatens both software and the distribution of media (ebooks, video, and music) over the internet, and much more.

Free books and media - days 22 to 25

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:49:29 +0000

Less than a week to go, and I broke my rules for the first time. A tweet with a link to an extremely funny Catherine Tate video on Youtube was too much for me, but, other than that, things continue to go well.

Free books and media - days 18 to 22

Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:16:20 +0000

Longer than I realised since the last post. I have not done a lot of reading, nor watched much video, but I have realised, once again, that there is more out there than I thought, especially in terms of films.

Free books and media - days 14 to 17

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:27:26 +0000

More than half way through and I have had no difficulty sticking to the rules, except with regard to music, and I have resisted temptation there — although I may have not-so-accidentally heard quite a lot of non-free music put on by other people. Video is not that important to me, and the free books have actually been better than what I would otherwise have read.

Free books and media - days 10 to 13

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:33:24 +0000

A long hiatus because a lot of distractions prevented me from reading very much, and watching any films at all. It still goes well, just a bit slowly.

Free books and media – days 8 and 9

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:56:39 +0000

Another uneventful days as far as the books go, but music is going better than I expected.

Free books and media – day 7

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 06:41:00 +0000

A full week gone, and things are going well. I am still reading SF, and found more films/video worth watching.

Free books and media - day 6

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:08:48 +0000

An uneventful day. No video and just one book finished.

Free media only - days 4 and 5

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:29:07 +0000

Not much happened, just more good books, a burst of SF and fantasy, and a surprisingly good comedy film.

Free media experiment - day 3

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 14:03:49 +0000

More great reading and some interesting discoveries on video (although I did not actually watch anything on any length) yesterday.

Free media experiment - day 2

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:00:25 +0000

The second day of my experiment in reading, watching and listening only to free stuff went fairly well. I discovered one author I had not appreciated, and watched another OK video.

Free ebooks and video, first day

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 08:50:59 +0000

Yesterday was my first full day of consuming only free media, Its a day and a half since I started. So how is it going?

A month of only free content

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:59:26 +0000

For the next month (i.e. from 16th July 2011 to 15th August 2011) I will only read/watch/listen to legally free media (audio, video, books, whatever). The biggest changes will be reading only free ebooks (something I have been doing a lot of lately, anyway) and listening only to free music.

I bought my first e-book

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:36:34 +0000

It is not the first e-book I have read (no by a long way), but it is the first I have bought. It is (of course) DRM free. It is also a book (actually two books ) I would never have bought if the previous books in the series had not been free downloads.

America vs the world

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:13:17 +0000

Listening to a funny and relentless condemnation of the American Imperium and its current government from [book]Gore Vidal[/book], I felt rather sorry for the American ambassador who was in the audience. It was clear the feelings of the audience were very much with Gore Vidal, and very much against everything it is the ambassador’s job to push.

Psst! Want to buy an illegal book?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:57:44 +0000

Would you like to buy a book that breaks British Law? Whose authors could go to jail? The printed version has sold out, but you can still buy a PDF copy of Glorifying Terrorism, a collection of science fiction short stories. There are reviews at David Langford’s Ansible Link and The Guardian.