Monday, March 29, 2004
Google Me a River
Google Local lets you search the net by lat/long. US only at the moment, but a global version would be pretty amazing. And they need point-and-click functionality for the map.
Sunday, March 28, 2004
Back to Chernobyl
"The most exciting thing about rides in Ghosttown is to hit a red line on my bike's tacho and break this silence with roar of a wounded dinosaur and then to close throttle and listen how all those ghosts cursing 1100cc kawasaki engin."Joyriding in a nuclear wasteland on a jap bike.
Thursday, March 11, 2004
Archipelagoes in Our Minds
Ursula K. Le Guin interviewed here.
Q: What effects have Ishi and his story had on your writing?
UKL: Nothing directly that I know of. I knew nothing about Ishi and his story until my mother began writing the biography, long after I was grown and writing and publishing. That a lot of my protagonists are alone of their kind among people of another kind - this is Ishi's situation; also the situation of a field anthropologist; also the situation (or so it seems to me) of most adolescents, most intellectuals, most artists . . . "I, a stranger and afraid/ In a world I never made."
