Apocalyptic Living
Keeping the (post-apocalyptic) romance alive
With Valentine's Day being last week and my post about the Love Machine app going up last Wednesday, I've been thinking about love and romance and relationships and all that…
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Reading Material
Post-apocalyptic Reading — Impressions: THE JACKAL DREAMING by J.A. Caselberg
Book blurb, from publisher's website:[1. Review copy provided by Musa Publishing] "A dark god is awakening and a young temple scribe holds the balance of the world in her hands.…
Debris
Thinking of proposing? There's an app for that
Okay, so, confession time: I dislike Valentine's Day. Probably because I spent way too many of them single (well, before I got married). Back then, I used to think of…
Reading Material
The end of the world: There's a magazine for that
Last week I was putzing around Target shopping for clothes for my kids. I took a detour through the books and magazines because this is what I do every shopping…
Apocalyptic Living
What I've learned from watching science fiction shows
I watch a lot of science fiction. I read alot of science fiction, too, but I grew up watching Star Trek and Stargate. Yes, I'm a geek. (It's okay, you…
Reading Material
Post-Apocalyptic Reading – Impressions: EX-PATRIOTS by Peter Clines
Description of Peter Clines' Ex-Patriots[1. This book was provided for review byPermuted Press] It’s been two years since the world ended. Two years since the dead rose and the plague of ex-humanity decimated…
News
Instructions for the post-apocalypse
For once, these instructions are not coming from me. Or Ann. Or Tavia. Shocking, isn't it? It seems that we are not the only apocalypse-obsessed people on the planet. Also,…
Alarmism
Edible microchip: good for your health?
So last Wednesday, on January 18, there was this little online movement to protest SOPA. Maybe you heard of it? (Students everywhere may have lost their minds temporarily, since English Wikipedia…
Alarmism
Supertuberculosis
Sadly, this isn't a post about crime-fighting tuberculosis (even though that would be cool). Ann emailed us this link last week about totally drug-resistant tuberculosis (TDR-TB). There have been at…
Reading Material
Survival instruction nursery rhyme
Jamie made the following comment to my last post: I really like the idea of making up nursery rhymes that carry survival instructions. Those kinds of things will stick in…