mini-Boing; a mercy mission through toward Friday morning tea
- I've been responding to emails from those strange beasts that are not longer schmoopies but not quite bitter graduates either: 3rd year external students, the Boffin Valkyries. "I'm having family problems" seems to be the most common aria.
- The Smart-Arse Darth. This you must watch, now. Tycho over at PA, bragi_gwydion, and I implore you!
- Is there a chance I could be charged under the new sedition laws by distributing BoingBoing's Guide to Defeating Censorware?
- And this story about a Moleskine like mine (and thefuriouscynic's) stopping a bullet... Come on, seriously.
- The future of pornography: images that respond to your facial pose.
- I'm debating about doing something in Second Life, something entrepreneurial... Bwahahahaa... Maybe bragi_gwydion and I can set up a 'research centre' and distribute ancient mythology like it's digital voodoo -- a la Gibson's Count Zero. If SL doesn't have incense and snake oil yet, it damn well needs it!
- "A Danish brewery in Greenland is brewing beer using water from the melting Arctic ice-cap." I must try this beer of doom and looming ice-age destruction. (I wonder how major faiths would cope in an ice-world anyway given that they largely have their roots in hot and/or humid climates... Maybe we can go back to runes and giant worms... No, wait, isn't that Men In Black 2??)
I'm reading Transcritique by Kojin Karatani and I regret to inform you, dear reader, that I am absolutely enthralled.
~Niveau
PS this is not a day for writing.