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MUDs to Metaverse: The Unreal Estate Deal | 2308
Costly virtual land in the metaverse today is a result of memory constraints on mainframes. A solution to a problem that no…
February 25, 2023
Pinball Wizard | 2228
Pinball Wizard is the name for a 1970's cyborg. People who first entered a world inside a machine and 'touched' the metaverse.
July 16, 2022
Computing Books | 2223
I realised I knew very little about the history of computing. Here's two books I read recently correcting my ignorance.
June 12, 2022
Lost in MySpace | 2202
Upon hearing the MySpace sever news, my first thought was ‘I’m glad all posts and DMs are gone forever'. My second thought…
January 15, 2022
The Weather On Social Media | 301 – 2047
On the internet, Everything happens so much. But you don’t need to stand out in the rain to know it's raining.
November 27, 2020
Conduits To A King | 301 – 2046
A brief overview of the use of puppets in the 18th century Royal Court of Myanmar
November 20, 2020
Captain Swing | 301 – 2034
The 1830's Swing's Riots were a disaster for British the working class.
August 28, 2020
133 :: The Run Out
I've been busy with work this week. But I did get chance to finally sit down and read Vol 2# of 28…
March 29, 2020
The Run Out | 301 – 2012
Covid-19, Landslides and Avalanches, The Run Out, Accelerationism, Post Post Modernity.
March 27, 2020
131 :: In The Food Forest Of Souls, Angels Are Avenged
We were joking that from now on every time we meet, it has to be to be to a biblical backdrop. Last…
March 14, 2020
Living In A Time Of History | 301 – 2010
The Pandemic is coming... The longue durée, paying taxes after pestilence, boomers, ancient greeks, make art when the time ghost is at…
March 13, 2020
114 :: Please for the love of Blarg, Start a Blog
Your Twitter thread is great! But it is also ephemeral, temporal and easily forgotten. Start a damn Blog
December 14, 2019
General Ludd | 301 – 1828
Luddites were opposed only to technology ‘hurtful to Commonality’/ What are the wide frames of today? which bits of the stack need…
November 2, 2018