This compares the incidence of words in Google Books over the years, so you can see that since 1955 people have written more about ‘space’ than ‘earth’.

Google Ngram Viewer.

On December 1727 an intriguing play called Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers was presented for production by Lewis Theobald, who had it published in January 1728 after a successful run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. The title page to the published version claims that the play was ‘Written Originally by W.SHAKESPEARE’.

Double Falsehood’s plot is a version of the story of Cardenio found in Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605) as translated by Thomas Shelton, published in 1612 though in circulation earlier. Documentary records testify to the existence of a play, certainly performed in 1613, by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, probably entitled The History of Cardenio and presumed to have been lost.

Well you can buy it now and decide for yourself if this is a genuine play. There will be much discussion about it now that some major scholars have decided to throw their weight behind it as being true.

A & C BLACK.

it’s taken 44 years of work, but the Oxford Thesaurus is finally complete

Join a premier national aerobatics team, even if you have no experience flying jets!

This book details the way the CIA built and used technologies to spy on other people and countries.

Nowadays most of the “devices” are software on PC’s, but this is a world of serious James Bond shit!

This is a totally unofficial look at the Star Wars universe, how it was created and what motivated Lucas and the film companies as they built the franchise.

And so this guy, who has written a book “The Dangerous Book for Boys” is written for them, harkening from a time when it wasn’t so bad to get hurt a bit. Instead of treating boys as “girls who wash slightly less” he says treat them as boys!

Interestingly Philip K Dick managed to predict the future fairly well despite being the wacky one. Heinlein didn’t do quite so well…

This review is about what could have been, what should have been but what wasn’t. It also tells us why it wasn’t. Very good piece.

This whole site is a blast, but check out pages like this and this ..

http://www.superdickery.com/

Fantastic new sport sweeping the USofA

Anyone with an interest in how our digital freedoms are being whittled away, how the music, movie and television landscapes are about to change forever, or how a new, empowered generation of users (mostly young people) see media differently than the older crowd, would benefit from marking up their copy of Darknet (bring two yellow markers). As the author [says], “Media will change more in the next five years than it has in the past 50 years.”

The darknet site has some excerpts from the book itself on it, and they are well written, lucid and interesting.

Thus, (excerpts from) Notes Toward an Infernokrusher Manifesto:

Explosion is the new transgression. Demolition is the new deconstruction.
[—Benjamin Rosenbaum]

More than the death of the Reader, Infernokrusher prizes the sudden, violent dismemberment of the Reader

Infernokrusher fiction explodes stagnant genre conventions, e.g., that it’s not okay to have all your characters run over by a monster truck in what would seem to be the middle of the story

While other attitudes to art yearn to communicate truths, to move people, to challenge, or to entertain, infernokrusher art wants to blow stuff up

How sad to say goodbye to that world of wonder magic and colour which exists in our everyday lives, if only you look at it!

The everyday things you see and take for granted are miracles of some force we don’t really know of – Darwin, God, they are all only partial explanations for the magic of a daisy, a grain of sand or the ocean thudding onto the beach. These small things are the creatures of a world that not many see, when they pave the world with concrete and bricks.

The wonder and delight of a child looking at an entirely new world are treasures that life gives us, but why let it stop from childhood? Every day is filled with entirely new occurences, experiences, faces, all to be enjoyed, lived and felt. All part of a fairytale reality if you let yourself be inhabited by it.

Don’t brick up your heart, the princess is real, fairies exist and the story is true.

Was this how it really was?! (Flash)

Tales for the Leet presents Romeo and Juliet!

http://uninteresting.myby.co.uk/noeffort/romjul.htm (flash)

And catch Star Wars III while you’re at it.. (wmv)

http://www.kontrabandcontent.co.uk/1/graphics/movies/starwars3.wmv
or
http://abum.com/files/Movies/starwars3.wmv
or
http://chaos.battlecenter.net/starwars3.wmv
or
http://www.thestorageben.com/videos/starwars3.wmv

The Dutch government is the first in the world to both issue a Root CA (Certification Authority) and present it for inclusion in a major browser. (Firefox, duh!)

Users of Firefox 1.0.2 can use
View -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Certificates -> Manage certificates -> Authorities
and scroll down to Staat der Nederlanden to verify this. Sweet.

It’s safe to assume that this is part of the PKI Overheid initiative.

This is excellent fun stuff:
Phase 1: recruiting
Phase 2: The questionnaire

Non verbal communication lessons

http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/06_04/06-04-black-blue.htm