Sep 19, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Post addressed to Jonathan Fitch came through my letter-box, and that was who I was. I had a National Insurance number and an account at Lloyds; I had a shoe size and a blood type and a bunch of keys. I was twenty-eight years old and not too bad looking; in the past,...
Sep 12, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
Clint said, ‘The big news climatewise, they’re saying, is the Ice Age. Which is coming up. After uh, ten thousand years of decent weather, much out the igloo, boys, and hunker down for ninety millennia of frostbite.’ ‘…Then maybe global...
Sep 8, 2008 | Lies, Truth & Lies |
When I turned on the lights the place came out of the darkness like an animal caught in the headlamps of a car. All the plants whose names I’d forgotten reproached me silently; the Russian vine looked moribund. ‘Sorry,’ I said. I filled a jug and...
Aug 29, 2008 | Campaigns, Truth, Truth & Lies |
With the exception of preventing war, this is the greatest challenge our country will face during our lifetimes. The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It is a problem we will not solve in the next few years, and it is...
Aug 18, 2008 | Geekery, Truth, Truth & Lies |
Granovetter was interested in how ideas spread through communities, and argued that weak ties between individuals are more important than strong ties for the broad dissemination of information. His argument is fairly simple (though backed by considerable data and...
Aug 18, 2008 | Lies, Short Stories, Truth & Lies |
Conversations with Goethe The English, Goethe said in parting, are the shining brown varnish on the sad chiffonier of civilization. Lieutenant Whitby blushed most noticeably. And now you could read... The People Of The Abyss Forty Stories Forty Stories Proust and the...