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Tuesday, June 04, 2002
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Dave Kraft read my review of The Sword of Shannara and had this to say:
Just read your review of Sword of Shannara. One of my favorite. I rate it at around 7.75. Elfstones of Shannara is better, IMHO. There you've got 2 female roles. I rate Elfstones around a 8.5. Tolkien is the master. (Altho I read Brooks's stuff before I started on Tolkien)
Cool, I have both Elfstones and Wishsong so maybe I'll read them eventually. Right now I'm working on The Scar and Interface.
4:47:50 PM 
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Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy calls C. S. Lewis' Narnia series "rascist" and "disparaging to girls and women"
Pullman, attacked by a rightwing columnist as "the most dangerous author in Britain" and "semi-satanic", is celebrated for a trilogy which deliberately takes an opposite line to CS Lewis's Christian tales. In Pullman's world, the universe is ruled by a senile, viciously sadistic deity who has to be deposed in battle so that its inhabitants can join with angels in creating a "republic of heaven".
In reply to a question, Pull man told an audience made up largely of children and young people that he had first read the Narnia books when he was a teacher. He added: "I realised that what he was up to was propaganda in the cause of the religion he believed in.
"It is monumentally disparaging of girls and women. It is blatantly racist. One girl was sent to hell because she was getting interested in clothes and boys."
*sigh* Yet another great author demonstrates that the person isn't always as nice as the story they write.
4:36:29 PM
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Ahhh! I can't delete anything from my Radio Aggregator!
[Macro error: Can't coerce the string "fl" into a number because it contains non-numeric characters.]
Update: It seemed to fix itself, I think it had something to do with having a form in the aggregator. Not really sure though
Updated update: Now I'm getting: [Macro error: Can't coerce the string "url" into a number because it contains non-numeric characters.]. Luckly when I reload it has actually deleted stuff, but now the bottom delete button is doing nothing.
Final update: Finally the bottom delete is working, yes the problem seems to be caused by having a form in the aggregator.
3:36:53 PM
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<redmonk> hey - no one tell DW that writing software that does
interesting things with html <link REL> tags is implementing the semantic web...
<Ash-w> <dwiner> IT'S TEH SEMANTAC WEB!@!11 HIDE UR CHILDRAN!@$%1111
<davb> think he reads the swhack logs?
<Morbus> if he doesn't, we should tell him too.
<sbp> [off] <Morbus> Hi Dave. If you're reading these logs, I'd just like to say: Ampheta rocks; screw you
3:24:26 PM
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