Well, quite some time has passed since I ↵took the comments function offline—due to numerous requests I brought the function back online again, and included some more wizardry from ↑abe. Let’s see how it works. All the comments you posted … Continue reading →
The download links for ↵my writing have found a place in this blog’s righthand sidebar now, too. Ye ole dissertation was added to the downloads: KNORR, ALEXANDER. 2004. ↓Metatrickster: Burton, Taxil, Gurdjieff, Backhouse, Crowley, Castaneda [7.27MB | .pdf | … Continue reading →
Frankly, I do not really know the reasons. But since four months the visits on my weblog here are steadily increasing. The average number of unique visitors for this month today is 2300 (bots and access with special http-status [me] … Continue reading →
Once again I was forced to take the comments function offline. My countermeasures against spamming were still working and indeed prevented ‘sensible’ spam—spam that actually does advertise something or builds up a web of hyperlinks. Sometimes the filter overdid it … Continue reading →
Steadily they are trickling in like particles nomadizing in cyberspace … Andrew Mactavish’s ↑Andrew’s Blah Blah Blog, Frans Mäyrä’s ↑frans goes blog, and Julian Raul Kücklich’s ↑playability and ↑particle stream were added to the “games related” section of my … Continue reading →
Finally I introduced the subcategory ↵excerpts to the category ↵literature within this blog. That’s something I intended from the start on, but never did till now. Over time I realized that, maybe because of vanity, this blog more and more … Continue reading →
The reason for the literature spree of the recent days is my planning of the two courses ↵on computergames and online-communities I will teach during the upcoming term. In the wake of that I updated, ‘enhanced’, and reformatted my ↵online … Continue reading →
↑Blogging is futile?—far from it! Spamming-attempts now seem to be futile. Tnx a thousand times, abe! You pwn big time, my man!
Continue reading →No, that’s neither ↵Teh_Masterer, nor ↵him—it’s a character out of ↑Mamoru Oshii’s 2001 movie Avalon. I took the screencap from ↑cyberpunkreview.com, a blog and “The most complete cyberpunk movie site on the net”. It’s nicely organised, decently looking, and … Continue reading →
All of the ‘classic’ anthropological fieldworkers collected the artefacts of the cultures they did research on. For a long time ‘material culture’ was a big issue in anthropology, but became less and less important through time. It indeed became some … Continue reading →