Jacksonville Blogs

• The Danger of Employing Redskins as Movie Actors

  —Workbench

  Although it's getting a lot of flak from publishers and authors, Google Books is one of the most amazing contributions to world knowledge launched on the web in years. The ability to search the full text of thousands of books published prior to 1923 -- and hence in the [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:01pm EST
  by Rogers Cadenhead

• Predicting the Next Hugo Award-Winning Novel

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  For the last two years I've voted in the Hugo Awards, yearly literary honors for science fiction and fantasy (but mostly science fiction). I skipped the best novel category because I hadn't [...]

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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:44pm EST
  by Rogers Cadenhead

• They're Gonna Put Me in the Movies

  —Workbench

  

  I haven't seen the film Paranormal Activity, but I did fill out a web form requesting that it be shown in my town. That's apparently enough for me to earn a spot in the credits of the film when it comes out on DVD.

  I got an email' [...]

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  Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:53pm EST
  by Rogers Cadenhead

• Is Miss Farrell Crazy on Mad Men?

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  I've become an obsessed viewer of Mad Men this season, catching each episode on its first Sunday night airing and hitting the web afterwards to read reactions. The best place to do this is the blog of' [...]

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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 10:33am EDT
  by Rogers Cadenhead