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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
a sports-journalist’s biased commentary Last night 100-metres-men Olympic champion Merton Fuller was belatedly disqualified because of the results of a “doping test” done within the hour after his triumph. Inside one of the joints of his prosthetic augmentation a silicon-based … Continue reading →
the mystery of the broken bicycle tyre inflator The uncanny breaks into everyday-life spontaneously and unpredictably. Today it hit me for the third time. The first two instances were “The riddle of the vanished filling station attendant” and “The amazing … Continue reading →
Back in May I in here summed up a part of the ↵situation at my institute, especially describing the situation of the Lehrbeauftragte. Today I read oneman’s ↑“Living and Teaching in the Information Economy” which perfectly complements my experiences and … Continue reading →
After so many shiny weeks with brilliant steel-blue sky and burning sun in a row the heat finally is gone and an eternal seeming downpour has taken its place. But it’s sunday and I nevertheless undertook a lengthy stroll … Continue reading →
night of the living dead When hell is full the anthropologists will return to Earth—good gracious, we all look like straight out of “Doom III”. Amazing what some months of coursework can do to people … UPDATE: dusk till … Continue reading →
a do-it-yourself guide to the future Brooks Landon’s 1993 article ↑Hypertext and science fiction, a review of Branwyn, Sugarman, et al.’s 1991 HyperCard classic ↑“Beyond Cyberpunk! A Do-It-Yourself Guide to the Future” [ah yes, it’s available on the Web … Continue reading →