We've all had our formative childhood experiences; mine was spending more time with ferrets in my pockets than I did with my parents. Not that I would have kept my parents in my pockets.

Ferretbrain.com is an easy-going, irregular e-zine about stuff. So if you're excitably eclectic, curiously cantankerous, articulately adventurous (although not necessarily adverbially alliterative) and unduly attracted to shiny things this could be the place for you.

We publish articles and reviews and anything-else-that-seems-appropriate on whatever subject looked sparkly today. Books, movies, art, philosophy, history, computer games: it's all good to a ferrety brain. We don't have a house style, as such, but we like to keep things companionable and conversational.

I've always believed that it's better to be interesting than right. People have very sensibly tried to tell me that I should aspire to be both but the important thing is simply enjoying the process of getting there. Getting where? Wherever.

New articles come in on a regular basis. Our latest:

• Whistle Down the Wind by Daniel Hemmens
  Dan Hemmens on The Name of the Wind, with reference to Superman, Macgyver and Roger Rabbit.
• Ne waes thaet wyrd by Kyra Smith
  Kyra Smith is still feeling epic; thoughts on Beowulf, the book and movie.
• The Reading Canary: Vlad Taltos Falls Over by Arthur B
  Arthur thinks he may have found the place where the Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust goes sour.
• On 'Last Argument of Kings' by Kyra Smith
  Epic review is epic. Kyra Smith is verbose and ambivalent.
• Random Redux by Claire E Fitzgerald
  The Random Review Continues.