@6000 over on 6000 miles from civilisation discovered a fantastic video on Youtube of a 1-year-old girl struggling to operate a print magazine in the same way she operates her dad’s iPad. He posted the following quote from her dad: Technology codes our minds, changes our OS. Apple products have done this extensively. The video shows how […]
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Wondering what game would be the perfect christmas present for your small horde of gaming offspring? Look no further! Activision have brought the future of multi platform gaming to life with their latest game Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventures. Skylanders combines your typical platformer game (good for hours and hours of relaxing play) with the fun of […]
So you’ve played all the Elder Scrolls games, and you reckon you are a bit of a master by now (as most of us tend to do)…but are you good enough to beat the record time for Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim set by Bethesda‘s Sam Bernstein? He managed to clock the game in an amazing […]
On this day ,18 October, in 1944 Forever Amber by Kathleen Windsor was published for the first time. In this digital age where all our fantasies can be brought to life by the click of a button, it is interesting to look back and see that humans have always been delighted by the forbidden and […]
The finalists for the four categories in the National Book Award have just been announced! In the fiction category we see the 2011 Orange Prize winner The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obrecht, a likely winner for this prestigious award. In the Poetry category we see the familiar Adrienne Rich, one of America’s foremost feminist poets, with her collection […]
Put all your doubts aside and prepare for even more zombie killing madness with the latest sequel from Capcom – Dead Rising 2: Off the Record! Get an all new view on what was happening behind the scenes while Chuck Greene was trying desperately to find some Zombrex. This time we go back to the […]
The intoxicating ‘kasi soul’ accapella group, The Soil – comprised of Ntsika Fana Ngxanga, Luphindo Ngxanga, and Buhlebendalo Mda – have embraced the opportunity to open for Freshlyground’s Johannesburg tour dates with open arms. ‘We are truly honoured to have been selected by Freshlyground to perform at their shows in Joburg’ says Ntsika of The […]
Best known for her Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris has just announced a deal with Ace Books to create a graphic novel trilogy called Cemetery Girl. Cemetery Girl is a paranormal/fantasy mystery novel about a teenage girl with amnesia living alone in a cemetery. It is Harris’ first effort at creating an original graphic novel […]
All crime novel fans, the next five books for you to read have just been announced with the Ellis Peter shortlist! Selected by the Crime Writer’s Association, these are the forerunners in the huge historical crime thriller market. The award is sponsored by the Estate of Ellis Peters, Headline Book Publishing Company and Little, Brown […]
Cassandra Clare is a writer from Brooklyn, New York. Her first book, an urban fantasy novel for young adults centering on the adventures of the demon-fighting Nephilim (also called Shadowhunters), ‘City of Bones’, was published in 2007 by Simon and Schuster. It has since been followed by ‘City of Ashes’ and ‘City of Glass’. EB: […]
