Book 1/50. Finally. Cradle [amazon.co.uk] by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. This was a good read. It was, I thought, quite slow to get started but after the first few pages the pace picks up and then keeps rolling towards the end. The later section of the book was very engaging. It took quite [...]

So the BBC show the Jerry Springer Opera and thousands of people are up in arms protesting over it. One group is even bringing a blasphemy prosecution against the BBC for it [news.bbc.co.uk]. I find it really odd that people have so much time on their hands to even be affected by these things. Surely [...]