Via Susan Jean Robertson, here’s a story about Octavia Butler's life for the LA Times by Aida Ylanan and Casey Miller—they’ve made a particularly lovely story here by binding the map of Butler’s life with the format of the site itself. It's all focused on a bird’s eye view of LA—as you scroll, the story jumps from...

Dit is waarschijnlijk de laatste keer dat ik zal bloggen over mijn nieuwe (part-time) baan. Met ingang van 1 december ben ik één van de drie leden van de commissie die lasten voor de Nederlandse inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten toetst, de Toetsingscommissie Inzet Bevoegdheden (TIB). Als een van de civiele of...

Verdict: ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Check it out on Letterboxd There are films which you wish you had watched earlier in life, and there are others which don’t make sense until you have had your fair share of world experiences. Waking Life falls in the former category. The college sophomore me would have been really excited about...

By Crikey, it is a warm day here in Broken Hill today. We have the evaporative cooler ducting it's breeze through the house but it's still pretty warm. Outside the ground is too hot to walk on and the corrugated iron that encases everything in this town sizzles on contact. The heat shimmer makes you wonder if light...