2010-10-25 (Monday)
Writing
-
Nearly future
Thoughts on James Bridle’s post about Network Realism.
Links
-
Gallery - Brilliant SF books that got away - Image 1 - New Scientist
I’ve only read one of these. So much to read! (via @GreatDismal)
-
Mac Bundy Said He Was ‘All Wrong’ by William Pfaff | The New York Review of Books
About the Vietnam War, but also good on parallels with Iraq/Afghanistan, and how only one or two ideas can shape events that affect continents, very similar to that Adam Curtis article about a “global terror network”.
Tweets
I wasn't quite sold on 'Rubicon' at the start, but it totally had me by the end. Good.
Really, forget Rodney and that other guy who was in something and looks really familiar, it's The Curious Orange! #tmwrnj
Wondered why old-fashioned businessmen were in coffeeshop, then realised it's Nicholas Lyndhurst, Curious Orange and more in period costume.