Tag Archives: The Void
Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps
strange maps has an interesting historical run-down, very light on the linkage, but easily remedied by pointing Wikipedia at “hollow earth“. I might have posted on this subject while I was reading the relevant passage in Against the Day, but … more…
Walking thing
Locust St. has a lengthy discursion on walking, and matters arising therefrom. Very fine it is too. I hope to have something to say again before long.
aaaargh
end of the month, and still can’t come up with anything to say. Sheee-it.
Aberystwyth
I’ve rooted this postcard out of the dusty place, and made a fresh scan. I didn’t find out, on my recent trip to those parts, whether it it still for sale in the tourist shops. I do hope so. Certainly … more…
Tickle Me Elmo On Fire
Poignant and, yes, disturbing. Also available, shorter and not quite as much fun — but equally poignant, in its way — Furby in the microwave… (via MeFi)
US: the conspiracy that wasn’t, by Alexander Cockburn
From Le Monde Diplomatique: Some discover a silver lining in 9/11 conspiracism. A politically sophisticated leftist in Washington DC wrote to me agreeing with my ridicule of the inside job scenarios but adding: “To me the most interesting thing (in … more…
Sterling: “The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier”
Bruce Sterling points to a couple of sites under the fetching title, The Ruins of the Unsustainable Are The New Frontier: some great pictures of Life in General re-colonising the post-industrial ruins of Detroit, and a blog in much the … more…
Dark Matter ‘Official’, and The Pioneer Anomaly
This Slashdot post appears to announce some kind of empirical validation of the existence of Dark Matter, and (possibly) refuting the theories which held Dark Matter to be the result of misunderstanding the effects of gravitation at distance. The main … more…
Phil Hine
Here, mostly because I spotted a guy on the train home who looked a lot like him but probably wasn’t, is the links page to the Fifth Aeon Agregore, which is Phil Hine’s home on the web, and a useful … more…