One year ago today
Great free reading of Robert E Howard’s “Conan and the Queen of the Black Coast”: This is the Ur-stuff, the sword-and-sorcery material that turned me into a stone Conan freak when I was 12 years old. It’s all mighty thews and straining jaws and blood-drenched swords — and pirates and sinuous dances and so on.
Five years ago today
JG Ballard (1930-2009): “Picturing the psychology of the future is what it’s all been about.” –JG Ballard
Ten years ago today
EFF waging war on bullshit Internet patents: EFF is going to start actively busting bullshit Internet patents, hunting down prior art and getting the USPTO to revoke the patents.