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30 Days – Day #6: Maps

December 6th, 2009 No Comments

Well, today’s topic is “something that tickles your fancy”, and what tickles my fancy this morning is maps. We’ll start with a quote that was very nearly the quote I used yesterday, and is something that I willl probably have tattooed on myself at some point in the not-too-distant future. “The map is not the [...]

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Ballardcraft

June 30th, 2009 No Comments

Attention conservation notice:RPGs, H.P. Lovecraft, J.G. Ballard, Nigel Kneale, passign mention of Charles Stross and related matters. Skip if these don’t interest you. What follows owes a substantial debt to Matt Jones, for kick-starting a certain chain of ideas. This is still only half-formed in my head, but I want to try and get something [...]

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Rituals Of Binding

March 2nd, 2009 No Comments

So, five years ago, I wrote a short piece about “technological shamanism”. When I wrote it, I was one of a very small number of people I knew who had a wifi enabled PDA, or really any ability to get internet access while out and about. My recollection is that some of the more advanced [...]

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Five Years Gone

February 25th, 2009 1 Comment

This is something I wrote back in, oh, November 2003 or thereabouts, just after getting my first wifi enabled PDA, and then it vanished from public view after my blogging software of the time shat itself and died. Some of you may remember it. I’m reposting it so it’s available as context to some more [...]

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