…to close a bunch of tabs before Firefox memory issues eat my computer.
Let us begin with my praise of BibliOdyssey. They pulled me in earlier this month with the scans from an antique geomancy almanac, and I’ve been exploring their archives since then. Wow, is there a lot of stuff in there for a bibliophile [...]
That’s a portrait of Bertrand Russell, taken by the relatively famous quebecois photographer and portrait specialist, Gabriel Desmarais (who usually went by just “Gaby“). The portrait was taken at Russell’s place in Wales (”Plas Penrhyn”) in 1961, which would probably mean Russell is 89 in the photo.
It is one of a series of photomontages Gaby [...]
Well, this is certainly the best “online entertainment” news I’ve read in a while.
I’ll let one of the participants explain:
Shadow Unit is, more or less, the website for a serial drama in internet form. Or possibly it’s a fan site for a TV show that doesn’t exist.
Over the next couple of months, the site will [...]
Following up from the recent post on SurveillanceSaver, I saw that very talented writer M. John Harrison had also been playing with it. Just let me quote him:
after a bit, the narrative possibilities collapse, the intensity of your gaze subsides & these are just empty corners of the world again. It’s a bit like hitch-hiking [...]
I could write a dozen blog posts about living in the surveillance society, and not make the point as clearly as Michael Zoellner did by writing SurveillanceSaver. There’s nothing that will drive home the point that we’re in the midst of omni-surveillance like someone adapting some of the information flowing from that constant surveillance into [...]
(image from Gallery Of The Absurd)
Look, I’m not sure I can add much to this–it would be gilding the lily.
Blue Bush does ‘a lot of crying’
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush is prone to bouts of crying caused by the stress of his job and claims to have seen ghosts emerge from the Lincoln Bedroom [...]
So, last night we had a ridiculously out of season snowstorm, which dropped almost a foot of snow on us over night.
Yes, I am writing this on Easter weekend. Yes, it is April.
And yet still I saw this when I looked out the window this morning:
The one upside of this is that I got to [...]
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