I got an email announcing the opening of this new news site, Truthdig.com, under the motto that, as stated by A.J. Liebling, “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.” This month there’s a feature by Orville Schell called China: Boom or Boomerang? that looks promising. Check it out.
Read more →Poking around Rudy Rucker’s place, I found a neat little Asteroids Applet I thought you all might enjoy as much as I did. For a few minutes, anyway.
Read more →Like guitar? Then I bet you’ll like glenn branca.
Read more →Do you still think that there’s nobody who needs psychoative medications? It’s alright, Tom. Just breathe.
Read more →UPDATE (24/11/2005): Uh, what happened? The roads weren’t blocked this time, nothing like last year when they were jammed insanely tightly. I didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, actually. Maybe I was misinformed, but I wasn’t the only one… other people at work had heard the same as me. If you do, please...
Read more →First, an interesting (if problematic) assessment of the Cathar heresy and the basic dualist impulse one often senses in people confronted with the theodicy — the paradox of evil in a world created by a good deity, by Hilaire Belloc. Second, an interesting snippet on Neoplatonism at Wikipedia which, far from incomplete, refreshes my...
Read more →I know, if you’re not a registered user, it looks like I’m mainly writing about EFL stuff. You have no idea what’s being posted, here, in terms of the full variety, unless you’re a subscribing user and signed in. All kinds of stuff about my writing projects, my thoughts on recent American politics (and...
Read more →Links of interest found on the Lost Nomad‘s site: One BBC reporter’s diary of Bush’s Asian tour A judge with what seems like a proper appreciation of Gilbert & Sullivan (or at least their call to let the punishment fit the crime). And via peemil (first point also discussed by Lost Nomad): Do they...
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