Earlier today, I posted a link to Schofield’s “Geek Top 20” novels. Then over at Modus Ponens we have the challenge: “What are your top 10 geek novels?” Once again: geek or nerd? (But I digress…) Snow Crash Neal Stephenson Ubik Philip K. Dick Exit Strategy Douglas Rushkoff Perdido Street Station China Mieville Gravity’s Rainbow […]
Another one via Boing Boing (two today!): Soviet stamps! The space-ship stuff (especially in ’66 to ’70 are especially cool. currently playing: Intermix “Ceremonial Chant”
Via Boing Boing (they’re great for this stuff, aren’t they?): a photo gallery of Soviet-era consumer goods! It’s in Czech, so good luck reading it… My personal favorite.
Via Slashdot: The Guardian’s Top 20 Geek Novels (written since 1932) The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell Brave New World Aldous Huxley Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip Dick Neuromancer William Gibson Dune Frank Herbert I, Robot Isaac Asimov Foundation Isaac Asimov The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett […]
My alma mater, St. Mary’s College of Maryland is now offering a graduate program with MAs and PhDs in an assortment of arts and sciences. In the (true?) St. Mary’s spirit, it’s a remarkably rigorous program (on paper at least) and folks are competing rather aggressively to get in. An announcement has gone out that […]
Via Boing Boing: Cartoon Aliens re-enact Tom Cruise anti-psychiatry rant What I find particularly interesting here is how much Cruise’s knowledge of the subject rather unfortunately parodizes his position. Wait, allow me to rephrase: His passion for the subject matter combined with his confusion over specific terms parodizes his position. Tom: “Psychology” and “psychiatry” are […]
Via Boing Boing: Because of the Cold War emphasis on dystopias, Cold War writers like Philip K. Dick, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Samuel R. Delany had to find radical new ways to express their inexpressible hopes about the future, claims Jameson. At this moment of neoliberal triumphalism, he suggests, we should take these writers […]
Sorry for the downtime, folks… In trying to troubleshoot why I wasn’t able to use mysqldump in a cron job, the perms on the user got hosed. So… no DB connection, no blog. /doh – – Gave up on that route at least for the time being. Don’t want to sacrifice too much uptime here… […]
A quickie plug for FrontLineAssembly.com (somewhat oddly titled “Delerium on the web” given the domain name…) which has a ton of free MP3 downloads on it from the various Leeb/Fulber and Leeb/Peterson projects. The Equinox album “Holon” is available for download in its entirety (for example), as well as large portions of Pro-Tech’s “Orbiting Cathedrals”, […]
Weird. Almost a week after discussing tags in an Amazon context, I see that they’ve got just such a feature in place. And it seems to be almost exactly what I was talking about, too. Can’t seem to find its release date though, doesn’t seem to be mentioned in the recent press releases.