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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Galloway Chronicles, an occult blog which tags itself as an “occult resource of extremely limited apeal”, is running a (fairly informal, from what I can see) contest for the 2008 Sexiest Occultist Alive (or dead).
The contest, billed as “the [...]
Thanks, and new plutoid
Monday, July 21st, 2008Thanks again to those of you who responded to Friday’s post about Plutonica.net’s Amazon.com affiliation, your feedback and support is appreciated.
Readers, you may recall June’s announcement that Pluto had been reclassified from a “dwarf-planet” to a…”plutoid”, a status it shares with Eris, which gave rise to all this confusion in the first place. (Really.)
A third…non-planet [...]
Plutonica.net’s Amazon.com affiliation
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Regular readers may have noticed that I have recently (in the past month or so) introduced Amazon.com affiliate links embedded in the site where specific books are referenced.
What’s up with that?
I’ve added the affiliate links because I feel they offer value to the site for several reasons.
To begin, the Internet is a largely visual [...]
Golden Hoard releases new version of the Key of Solomon
Friday, July 11th, 2008 Golden Hoard Press is releasing a new version of the Key of Solomon titled The Veritable Key of Solomon, by Stephen Skinner and David Rankin. It will be distributed in North America by Llewellyn Publications in September 2008, but preorders are available now from Amazon.com.
Llewellyn’s description boasts that it will be “perhaps the most [...]
PsycheTarot.com redesigned
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Apologies for the delays in posting, on top of a hectic summer social calendar, I’ve taken on several projects which are devouring a considerable amount of time.
Namely, I’ve been in the process of redesigning two sites (one of which has been completed - see left), and preparing another brand new site for launch later this [...]
Anarchy and information
Friday, July 4th, 2008I first came across Siva Vaidhyanathan’s excellent and wonderfully lucid book, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, via Wes Unruh’s recommendation on Alterati.com.
It looks at the way we interact with information with a focus on ownership and distribution, arguing that [...]
News: One take on the OTO UK trademark case
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Mogg Morgan, of the occult publishing house Mandrake of Oxford, has generously allowed me to reprint his take on this case which originally appeared in issue no. 214 of the publisher’s online newsletter, Mandrake Speaks.