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LilithSlave, have you read Cordelia Fine's book Delusions if Gender? It's an attempt to debunk some of the errant science surrounding sex-differences. I've only skimmed it myself, but there seems to be a lot of good material, most of it pertaining to what she calls 'gender priming' in...

'In this noon of thought, the rebel thus disclaims divinity in order to share in the struggles and destiny of all men." I'd write more, but I don't have a copy of the book handy, and when I searched for the quotation on Google the only result I got was from my own blog.

For anyone interested in a first-hand, non-partisan view, my friend Nick has blogged about his experience in the 'riots'. It's only one perspective, of course, but I think it's a fair and sober assessment compared to much of the media coverage...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Tomlinson

Is that really a political correctness issue? By that standard, Saudi Arabia must be one of the most politically correct countries in the world. :)

A friend of mine used to work for HMV here in the UK, and their policy is to try and scare the hell out of all their new employees regarding selling age-restricted products to minors. (I think that the employees are held responsible on an individual basis under law.) Doesn't seem to make any...

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/01/eccentrics200801

I don't know much of the literature on this subject, but if you're interested, Reflections on Hanging by Arthur Koestler is worth reading. It specifically addresses the death penalty in the UK, but it still makes a good general case against the practice.

Thief II has an absolutely stunning ambient soundtrack by a chap called Eric Brosius. The "Trail of Blood" level is particularly good; one of the first times I was ever actually impressed by videogame music. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr7sW6vbfM4

My birthday was yesterday. I spent four hours of it waiting to get tested for HIV. Then I got lost on the subway. (It wasn't so terrible, actually.) Anyway, sorry to hear about the girlfriend, but if she has different ideas about your relationship then they were going to come out sooner or...

And why has no one attempted to make a game based on American Psycho? Instant cult status.

I think The Trial by Franz Kafka would make an excellent survival horror. The monsters would be minor bureaucrats, and rather than disemboweling you, they just want to talk about your case at mind-numbing length. (And in the end, you always die.)

Ilya Ilych Oblomov in ?Mid-Morning of the Living Dead? In Ilya Ilych Oblomov in ?Mid-Morning of the Living Dead? the player takes control of the title character, a lackadaisical 19th-century Russian nobleman, and guides him through a hellish day in St. Petersburg. The dead have returned to...

Besides 'American Psycho', which has racked up a few well-deserved mentions already, 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami has a memorable sequence in which a man is skinned alive, and 'The Story of the Eye' by Georges Bataille features the rape-murder of a priest. Oh, and I nearly...

"Never pass up an opportunity to have sex or appear on television." Gore Vidal Actually, that one's pretty redundant these days.