April Fools’ Day, self-publishing, World Expo 2010

Today is not a very good day to try to read the news, because there’s always doubt. Is it real or is it an Internet annoyance? April Fools’ Day Google did its usual array of hoaxes for 2009, this time featuring a panda named CADIE (the world’s first Cognitive Auto-Heuristic Distributed-Intelligence Entity) who showed up […]

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Stanley Donwood, microscopic Alice, SXSW, Twitter

I enjoy the insights and random tidbits found in artist Stanley Donwood’s Slowly Downward Taglibro. See last week’s issue, Taglibro 14, and subscribe to Donwood’s irregular ‘news’paper. (For the uninitiated: Stanley Donwood is perhaps most famous for producing a lot of Radiohead’s album and promotional art over the years. I love the guy. I received […]

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Aphid Life webcomic **

The content of this post has not yet been converted from my old (homespun) blog system. It will be available again soon. For now, please avert your eyes. Would you like to return to the spiral::notepad home page instead?

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