- The history of the smiley face symbol | Art and design | The Guardian
A short history of one of the most recurrent and widely used design motifs of the last 50 years.
- Former NiN Drummer Takes Album Promotion A Step Further
Are you paying attention, music business? This is clearly the future of album promotion. I really, really hope someone take him up on one of the more stupidly expensive ones. And that he goes through with it. After all, if something's worth doing, it's worth doing in the most stupidly over-the-top manner possible.
- The Demon-Haunted World
"Or the past and future of practical city magic." Look, just go read it, because it's a clever man talking. It is not mysical, it is futuristical, and I'll give good odds that a lot of what he's talking about will come to pass. And it reminds me that I must dig up and revise something I wrote years ago on digital shamanism.