Hot: Remember a while back when I started Words to Know? The first links I provided were on things like the golem, and the homunculus. Well, thanks to Fulguritus, the first WTK of 2007 (volume #7, no less!) is going to feature some more curiousities of alchemical and religious histories. Since I consider this a [...]
Hot: Edit: A much better take on this situation, from one far more familiar can be found over yonder. At this point I suppose you could consider my post to be more of a primer for the almost equally undereducated. So, Robert Anton Wilson died yesterday. It was also Albert Hofmann’s birthday. For those who [...]
Hot: First word of the day? Racketeer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer As in “GoDaddy specializes in racketeering-like practices to sell their services”. Getting from point A to point B in renewing a domain name with them is a lot like trying to navigate through the event horizon of a black hole predictably. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event_horizon i.e. It’s theoretically very implausible. [...]
