reading Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds. i'm obsessed with animal intelligence and why they haven't evolved and replaced man yet. i WILL become a lunatic scientist with my own private army of super-intelligent animals. WATCH THIS FUCKING SPACE

I MEAN IT. we will overthrow the corrupt conspiratorial governments of the human world for the greater good, and begin anew.

Is it an interesting read? I love that sort of stuff as well but sometimes I find it hard to stomach the heavy science behind it. Do they have anything about squid in there too? Fucking squid, man, fucking squid.

I should finish Dominion at some point, if anyone has read Fatherland or...a bit of stretch but, 1984/ BNW, you'll probably like it. It's about what might have happened if England had surrendered to Germany in 1940 (I think because of Dunkirk). Interesting, chilling stuff and the background fluff is at times, more interesting than the main plot.

My Life, which is a long interview with Fidel Castro edited into a book and amended by Castro himself.
I never realised his dad was Patrick Stewart.

it's very interesting, and isn't too heavy. the book seems to be the first stepping stone into the somewhat philosophical world of robotics and animals (alien minds). i'm reading it mainly for information on understanding animal minds, but the robotics side is just as intriguing and very closely related. the two together help you understand the book as a whole.

long story short, it's a decent book. sometimes the reading gets a bit heavy, but it's all information at the end of the day. the more of that there is, the better.

also what's that about squid? i'm curious. squid aren't mentioned in this book, unfortunately.

what? Patrick Stewart is Fidel Castro's dad?

or is this one of your dodgy jokes again?

Less than a minute's googling would have provided you with this:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YV2gEA9DNh...gelCastro1.jpg

My jokes are all absolutely legitimate. I don't appreciate this calumny.

Squid have gained the ability to pass on information to one another, information which can be passed down from generation to generation, this could mean complex puzzle solving skills or learning how to traverse open ground between tide pools. Sometimes you'll see squid 'walking' across beaches to get back to the ocean and there's a possibility they learn how to do it either through self-awareness or by watching other squid, or both!

that's incredible.

give me a squid.

EDIT:
i Google'd 'Fidel Castro Patrick Stewart' and just found shit loads of American Dad links. didn't think to Google 'Fidel Castro's dad' like any normal human being.

then let me calumniate you some more.

I thought that was Patrick Stewart for a second then.

Right now I'm reading the Inheritance cycle and Planet TAD.

I recently read Volume 1 of The Walking Dead, it is awesome. I am currently reading a web-comic called Homestuck. It's good and I don't know anyone that reads it.

Josh does. So does someone else but I can't remember. Everybody knows what it is, though.

What, are you on about Homestuck?

Homestuck is old enough to be a hipsterish ragging target. That's all I know about it.

If you're saying only hipsters read it you are wrong.

But you read it, and you're a hipster.

Right now I'm between these two:
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps2cda97cc.jpghttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ps01afa2a6.jpg

No, I'm saying hipsters pride themselves on not reading it.

I don't read it because I'm on page 1300 of Problem Sleuth and I keep forgetting to go back to it.

Cosmos by Carl Sagan. and parallel to that I am watching the series. it's like he's reading it out for me. I love this guy.

http://www.brainpickings.org/wp-cont...2/05/sagan.jpg

Whoops, late on board, but I read Homestuck, too. I'm way too fucking lazy to do a reread of it while it's still on going so I've been waiting for it to end, which it SHOULD have ended before ECCC, or so it was implied, but it's been quite a while since ECCC and the ending seems to be no where in sight.

I really enjoy Homestuck when it isn't focusing on awkward teenage relationships of both aliens and humans.

Usually I read instruction manuals over and over ... I'm a complete nut job when it comes to DIY.

Mysterious as in "Why is that person screaming at the wall?" It's a mystery.

Last year I discovered this wonderful author, Iain M Banks. I read through his Culture novels back to back and loved just how much thought and detail he put into them.

Unfortunately though, I just came across this article.

Today is a sad day indeed. :(

Picsou mag (or not)
"La nuit du renard" MHG

No.

Did he tell us he was reading something?

i'm not sure.

I'M not renarded, YOU'RE renarded!

I'm rereading a pile of books from The Onion, John Stewart and similar to refamiliarize myself with how to write funny political garbage.