Old Is The New New

What appears to be H.P. Lovecraft’s Commonplace Book: creepy images, story ideas, and games he’d like to run. (Via Felix Gilman.)

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Beards, bots, and were they hot?

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Do not laser-shark me, oh my darling: isn’t everything better with rayguns?

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More robots, more infomancy, more “wonderful and pathetic factoids”: the internet is our flying car.

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It’s been well linked (Barista assumed it was taking the piss but I think he underestimates Chabon’s geeky earnestness) but it’s worth it: Michael Chabon on the superhero unitard. PS How good is All-Star Superman, am I right?

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Japanese robots and the gaijin who keep stealing them. Plus blood sacrifice by index card to begin the information age.

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Paul Collins on the Mundaneum, a networked encyclopedia on fifteen million index cards (shades of the Memex?). Plus index cards as (literally) the U.S. War Department’s killer app.

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