The latest issue of 2000AD – Prog 1496 – is something of a milestone. The comic rumbles on as per usual, marking time before another landmark prog (and to be fair, 1500 issues is pretty amazing for a British comic in the current market) w[…]

Untitled
by Thomas Pynchon
List Price: $35.00
Price: $22.05
Availability: This title will be released on December 5, 2006.
Hardcover: 992 pages
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The (December 5, 2006)
Language: English[…]

via the awesome dense rigour of “political theory daily review” — which i confess i don’t access daily, though i THINK YOU SHOULD, here is an even more awesome BABBAGE ENGINE made of LEGO, in which the maker, andrew carol, als[…]

I have never really read much historical fiction. Then recently I have stumbled on what seems to be a small but thriving subsection: which you could call “Victorian were a bit rubbish really but had grebt sea adventures” genre. This usualy mixes […]

storker project (look under the nature and street links at the top of the page as well)[…]

i’ve been meanin to blog this for weeks — as you journey by buses down cambridge heath road and in along old street, there is POTATO ART available
it uses cocktail sticks and paint it is pretty[…]

In the latest issue of Marketing an analyst describes the financial services sector as “a very vanilla industry”.
By this he means that it’s an industry in which several big players can co-exist in relative peace, presumably as oppo[…]

In Barcelona, some time before the Brazil team caught the plane home, browsing in FNAC, the HMV of the continent.  Suddenly, this!
 There were loads of them, a pile of – oh, fifty – taking pride of place on the counter, and more dotted[…]

From the time I got into role-playing games, the selling point was well-established: the games allowed players to create stories in which they were the heroes. But what kind of stories? The RPG set-up requires a group of characters (4-6, on average) […]

i. ok so when sistrah becky and i were small we very much enjoyed THIS BOOK

(because who can resist the name P. V. GLOB, plus also the pictures were creepy and awesome: bog people being peat-pickled bodies dug up after two thousand years, in denma[…]