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Words To Know Volume 6: More Homunculi

By Giania • Jan 18th, 2007 • Category: Anime, History, Philosophy, WTK

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 [...]



Disinformation, Chaos Magic, Psychotropics, and The Other Side

By Giania • Jan 12th, 2007 • Category: Fnord, History, Literature, Philosophy

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 [...]



Words To Know Vol 5

By Giania • Dec 1st, 2006 • Category: History, Memes, WTK, media

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. [...]