Kester Brewin

This is pretty amazing. Click the mouse to move around and look at what you will. HOW THE HELL?!

If you see this person wandering around – don’t duck. It’s too late. You’re on video, up down and sideways.

HT | Yellowbird Site

Really looking forward to being at Greenbelt again this coming weekend. The programme – from the talks to the music to the comedy to the campaigning is as strong as ever and, I feel, has a nice edge to it too. (Full talks listings here)
For those who are going to be there, I’m going to [...]

Just finished Pynchon’s new novel, Inherent Vice. I’d highly recommend it – one of his more approachable books, though retaining the bawdiness, comedy and inevitable excursions into song that have become part of his trademark style.
One subtly done, yet highly effective strand of the narrative is that of Fritz, who is hooked into ARPAnet, the [...]

In an interview with The Believer magazine, which has yet to pop through my door annoyingly, Thom York has commented that Radiohead will probably not release another album. His reason? Making albums has ‘just become a real drag,’ and ‘none of us want to go into that creative hoo-ha of a long-play record again.’
As The [...]

Interesting article here about those who simply refuse to engage in any online activity. Will they suffer ‘digital poverty’?
“There is growing anxiety that those who choose to remain offline will pay a price. One woman living in sheltered housing had noticed all the discounts being given to those paying electronically. She speaks of a “curtain [...]

An interesting article here on ‘oiling the digital society’…
We are bootstrapping a new world, one in which information technology and computational systems are as deeply embedded in our society as the scientific method or religious belief seem to be, and the precise names of the gods we worship is less important than our presence in [...]

After hearing a chance snippet of something on the radio last week, I’ve been thinking about what is known in Mathematics/Physics/Astronomy as the ‘three body problem.’ It remains one of the great questions in Mathematics as to whether it will ever be solved, or if indeed it actually can be.
The essence of the problem is [...]

Just back from holiday, and just hear that Thomas Pynchon has a new book out.
For any fans of this most difficult, funny, bawdy and darkly brilliant writers these are nervous times: will we understand a word of it, let alone the many hundred-thousands of words that some of his books can run to. The early [...]