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Thursday, August 31, 2006

ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY 1970s: BIT Travel Guide

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The cover and introduction of the BIT travel guide The first "edition" of this guide, which became known as the "Bible of ...
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ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY 1970s: Arts Labs

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The HQ INFO archive contains Issue 1 of the Arts Lab Newsletter, produced by BIT Information Service (then resident at 141 Westbourne Park R...

ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY 1970s: Nicholas Albery

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Photo Of Nicholas Albery by Mark Edwards, who now runs the excelllent photo agency Still Pictures Obituary: The Independent Nicholas Albery,...
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ALTERNATIVE SOCIETY 1970s: Nicholas Saunders

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Photo Anya Saunders. Text and photos found on The Vaults of Erowid Obituary: The Independent Nicholas Carr-Saunders, writer and businessma...
Monday, August 28, 2006

PHILIP K. DICK: A SCANNER DARKLY

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T his movie is a double triumph. Firstly, it is the best Philip K. Dick movie to date. That is, all previous movies (including the legendary...
Wednesday, August 23, 2006

ONE DAY IN LONDON

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LONDON: FAIRGROUND RIDE/COVENT GARDEN

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LONDON: SAMUEL BECKETT/BLENHEIM CRESCENT

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Monday, August 21, 2006

TRUTH AND LIES

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It's funny how things coincide during the course of the week. I suddenly had an urge to read again 'The Battle' (Penguin Books)....

THE UNDERGROUND PRESS GAZETTE

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Three of the legendary figures of the British Underground Press and music scene: (From top) 'Chairman' Mick Farren, Dave 'Boss...
Saturday, August 19, 2006

SCIENCE BLOG NEWS: Cosmic Variance

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Two discoveries thanx to this blog: (Left) The Rightwingoverse ; (Right) XKCD: A Webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language . Cosmic V...

SCIENCE BLOG NEWS: RealClimate

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The image above is the first publicly released image from the Aura mission. Acquired by the mission’s Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on S...

SCIENCE BLOG NEWS: Cephalopods

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A new concept in breakfast cereals. Real science or clever artifice? See: Worth 1000 The most popular science blog written by a scientist ac...

SCIENCE BLOG NEWS: Defining Planets/Expanding the Solar System

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(Top) The proposed new 12-planet Solar System: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Charon and 2003 ...
Tuesday, August 15, 2006

THE TANGIER DIARIES

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It is one of the great pleasures, for one such as I, to sift and search second-hand bookshops in search of treasure. So it was a good day wh...
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TANGIERS 2: PAUL BOWLES

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Two gems from The Generalist library, both published by City Lights Books in San Francisco - Laurence Ferlinghetti's famous bookstore a...
Saturday, August 12, 2006

CULT MUSIC: SYD AND ARTHUR

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(Left) This beautiful portrait of Syd is by British artist George Underwood, who has kindly allowed us to reproduce it here. George has prod...

CULT MUSIC DIGEST: Jazzwise et al

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The 100th issue of Jazzwise has just been published - and a fine one it is to. For those unfamiliar, this is Britain's best-selling jazz...

LONDON: GLOBAL AIR TRAVEL HUB

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The Times front page. August 11 2006 London continues to be at the centre of global air travel, with six of the past decade’s 10 fastest g...

WORLDS WITHIN WORLDS 1:

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SHARPEST MANMADE THING: A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms...