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Monday, July 21st, 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thanks 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 [...]
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.
Schedule changes for Plutonica.net
Monday, June 30th, 2008Regular readers will have noticed that our usual post-a-day momentum has not been maintained for the month of June.
Along with the summer come a variety of events which make it near impossible to sustain this posting rate, such as our Summer Solstice Feast, my Grandfather’s wedding (pictured left), my birthday and a host of other [...]
It’s not fair!
Friday, June 27th, 2008The Globe and Mail recently ran an article in their Life section titled “How to set an unfair rule (yes, it’s acceptable)” about perceived double standards, a sentiment I encounter quite a bit among friends, co-workers and human beings in general.
The article, written by clinical psychologist Anthony Wolf, looks at the rules set for
Two new books from Teitan Press by Jack Parsons and Frederick Hockley
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008While John Whiteside Parsons is best remembered by mainstream science as the inventor of the solid fuel that helped make space travel possible, occultists know Jack Parsons as a devoted Thelemite, chosen by Aleister Crowley in the early forties to lead Agape Lodge, an Ordo Templi Orientis lodge in California.
Parsons’ Freedom Is a Two Edged [...]