Day: August 14, 2006
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gods of cyberia
Yet another proposal I just submitted a minute ago in reply to a call-for-papers. The hellish thing with sent-in abstracts is that they sometimes are accepted. And then you indeed have to write up the paper or article you suggested. Nowadays the Internet and its subsidiary, the World Wide Web, constitute conceptual spaces for…
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postmodern cyberpunk
Within its comparatively short time span of existence, ↑cyberpunkreview.com developed to be a genuine premium resource on cyberpunk and related issues. There is not only the vast collection of reviews, which was expanded from movie-reviews to including game- and literature-reviews as well, at its main page, but the ↑virtual meatspace quickly became a highly interesting…
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hacking the himalayas
If I remember correctly it was back in 1987 that I was in Lhasa for the last time. Unfortunately [?] during my “career” my original regional focus, Karakoram and the Himalayas, somehow went out of sight and I defected to cyberanthropology. Now tech culture journalist and co-editor of ↑boingboing ↑Xeni Jardin travelled “to the…
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wondermark hair gel
The ↑webcomic above is copyrighted by ↑David Malki ! and to be found at ↑wondermark.com … “Although he is an experienced artist and graphic designer, David does not draw the figures in Wondermark; rather, they are culled from a variety of 19th-century primary sources courtesy of the Rare Books Dept. at the Los Angeles…