Dr. Shaun Duke, Professional Nerd

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Mars Has Water

It’s confirmed, everyone. Mars has water. We now have a 100% certainty of it. No skepticism. This is a reality. There is water on Mars. Fantastic discovery! (Don’t click the read more, there isn’t any more after this!)

Book Meme: Which classics have you read?

Discovered this here and thought I aught to do it. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed. Well let’s see.1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.2) Italicize those you intend to read.3) Reprint this list on your blog so […]

Book Piracy Won’t Destroy Writers

Why is it that people think so negatively about the Internet? Apparently the Society of Authors, whoever the heck they are, have spouted the doomsday report that the ever popular book group of book pirates will ruin us all: For a while it will be great for readers because they will pay less and less […]

Apologies Readers

For some reason LoudTwitter went schizo on me and started posting my tweets over and over and over, when I didn’t want it to. Not sure what’s up, but it should stop for a while now. I know there is an issue with the Twitter folks in regards to third party feed services. Looks like […]

Gay marriage equals the end of democracy?

Orson Scott Card is apparently at it again. To be honest, I’m not even going to touch this. If you want to read some brilliant counter-rants, go here, here (this one is suprisingly not tinged with hateful anti-man language), or here. In short, I think Card has lost his mind and joined the ranks of […]