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September 11, 2011

Dead Water in 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Almost.

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Oliver Morton (@Eaterofsun) tweeted: "This lovely ad makes me think bizarrely of @simonings's Dead Water rewritten by a Disney sentimentalist"

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May 14, 2011

Phantom Time Hypothesis

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March 25, 2011

Well that's made my day...

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March 18, 2011

Chartis Graphein's typographical map of the world

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March 18, 2011

Phi

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– stitching discrete still images together so as to perceive a single moving image.

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March 11, 2011

The Weight of Numbers rises again...

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Trawling for cover images for the new edition, I found this stunning satellite picture of London, reposted from Johnson Space Centre.

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February 15, 2011

If you're going to call your book Dead Water, you have to look the part...

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It's author photograph time again. None of your fist-on-chin malarky here. This is me about to pass out from sunstroke during a "research trip" (Inland Revenue please note) to Oman. Anna calls this my "creepy farmer" look.

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February 13, 2011

William Hazlitt comes to his senses

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Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.

 

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January 28, 2011

The barrel-eye

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The Eye contains some cursory descriptions of adaptive "spectacles"  – but nothing like this.


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January 25, 2011

Oscar Wilde

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Life goes faster than Realism.

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