And though the world was sick unto death, the mighty Steam behemoth churned onward. An automaton loosed upon an unheeding world, it had the misfortune to outlive its purpose. Created to bring entertainment, it now ground fine the hopes for joy and mirth of its victims. Ever onward, ever higher, (airships more fantastical by the day), its pace only ( Read more... )

So, yuki_onna is holding a LOLJOHN contest, where people are to post LOL macros made of Medieval art.

I've got some ideas. To be added as they get finished.


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Via William Gibson's twitter feed came this compelling bit of musing-accompanied-by-photos: Goodbye BordersIt is about the closing of a well-liked bookstore, and the line that caught me was a throwaway halfway through. He causally talks about "Some time after participating in the sack of Borders". The Sack of Borders - there's an epic poem in that ( Read more... )

From the looks of things, it seems William Gibson is setting to outdo his last two novels. Wow.

Excerpts he posts while still writing the whole are all I have to go on for that theory, but this one just blew me away too much for me to think otherwise. Nailed my subconscious creative side ker-smack! and I was off ( Read more... )

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And now it's time foorrr...
( Things I need to follow up on when I get home )

Something I ran across a loooong while ago, but never really made much note of, to myself or to anyone else, really:

Something from 'the Other Side Of The Bridge'

There is a blog post by William Gibson's about a jacket he used for the main character from one of my favourite books. It became, as he says, "Cayce's jacket immediately felt to me like ( Read more... )

I think this is going to become a regular feature of mine. There's just so much crazy stuff I run across at work that I'd probably like to surf again at home that I'm going to be makng a .txt file to post in here when I can.

Today, my Amazon Surf:

( blaaaat )

So Monday was sort of a Social Consciousness day. At work I reread my copy of Stephen Lewis' 2005 Massey Lectures -
Race Against Time, and got a lot more out of it this time 'round. ( Read more... )

Today, without cause, and in fact despite a few random things that don't really deserve mention, I have been utterly giddy with happiness ( Read more... )