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Thursday, July 26, 2007
JUSTIFIED AND ANCIENT
posted 7:18 AM
Not to mention rational and logical.

Monday, July 23, 2007
DADDY-FINGER TELL TIME
posted 1:24 PM
The watches of Haruo Sauekichi

Sunday, July 22, 2007
TURPENTINE, PUTTY, DIAL-UP
posted 5:57 PM
Via slow dial-up from a small Gulf island.

Spent the morning installing and puttying a replacement windowpane. Struck me that Mark Twain would've known how to do it exactly the same way, save for the shape of the glazier's points used to secure the glass. (They used to be flat cut-steel diamond shapes. Now they're more complex forms.) Victorian technology. Older, probably. Via Google I've learned that touching the knife with a very lightly turpentined rag allows for a smoother final pass.

But there's nothing on Google to make this dial-up run faster, so links take far too long.

There's a review of Spook Country in the Washington Post. Very good, but the person who wrote the subhead has Hollis Henry's gender wrong. Guess Hollis is more generally a man's name. Probably why I liked it.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
PLANET OF THE UNDERDEPP
posted 5:25 AM
Mesmerizing contra-idoru anti-portraits. A reminder of the extent to which posthumanity is already here, but not evenly distributed. Sweat on the underDepp's ringer worth price of admission.

Friday, July 20, 2007
HALO OF FLIES
posted 10:01 PM
Great potential as fashion accessories.

Friday, July 13, 2007
THE MAGIC THAT IS YOUTUBE
posted 11:39 PM
Seriously. All I needed to do see this for the first time was to think to look for her.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
BET IT WAS IN HUNDREDS...
posted 11:32 AM
This amount actually takes up much less space than you'd imagine.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
WARBABY'S RIDE
posted 8:10 AM
When I wrote Virtual Light, I had many giggles making things like this up.

Cops In Trouble indeed.

Sunday, July 08, 2007
SELF-CLEANING SWISS NANOFABRIC
posted 11:16 PM
This stuff is already here, but hasn't been very widely distributed yet.

OUR "FLAWED VISION"?
posted 7:18 PM
O well .

Saturday, July 07, 2007
OUT ON THE FURTHEST EDGES OF THE INTERNETS
posted 11:03 PM
I discovered the USS Hunchback .

My favorite name for a United States naval vessel *ever*.

Monday, July 02, 2007
PARIS IS BURNING
posted 7:47 AM
Annie Clark of St. Vincent. First I've heard or seen of her. Like.