Freddy Hagen is an extraordinarily talented Danish photographer.
Recently he returned from a trip to the Middle East and has uploaded some slide shows.
One in particular is a must see, Cairo Megacity. It is a slide show with music and both the music and photographs are utterly beautiful.
His other slide shows are also superb. Don’t miss [...]
As many of you know, after three years in Serbia, I finally decided to start learning the Serbian language. I was extremely lucky to find a truly brilliant teacher to help me*. Additionally, it turns out that the old myth that adults find it very hard to learn languages may be bunk.
I am now [...]
INSTANT EVOLUTION: The Influence of the City on Human Genes by Howard Bloom, Visiting Scholar, New York University.
Howard Bloom is a genius. I rate him as one of the most interesting living intellectuals. He is an intellectual idol of mine, king of the The Omnologists, polymath, gentleman and scholar.
Just look at any of his [...]
The Turkey City Lexicon is a dictionary of Sci-Fi literary terms. Superb.
Language Is A Virus
Writing tools, mashups, cut-ups, haiku generators, Dadist poem generator and other tools and toys for text.
Superb for writers and mind game players.
Jason Bates is one of the smartest people I know and now he has a blog!
Get over to the Autonomics Weblog for an intellectual feast!
[This is a placeholder notification. Autonomics and Jason deserve a detailed post but I am unable to write it now.]
Stephen King explains the how to write successfully.
“Like many editorial consultants, I’ve been concerned about the amount of time I’ve been spending on easy fixes that the author shouldn’t have to pay for.
Sometimes the question of where to put a comma, how to use a verb or why not to repeat a word can be important, even strategic. But most of the [...]
Last week a colleague remarked that singer Linda Ronstadt has caused a near riot in a Las Vegas casino after dedicating a song to propagandist Michael Moore.
We had a brief chat about how polarised US politics had become and continued on with our business.
On my way home that night, I was finishing Philip K Dick’s [...]