Kesher Talk

Some cool stuff I bookmarked over the past few months: Enjoy:

Stalin World, a real theme park in Lithuania.

A very short science-fiction story about each element of the periodic table, by incredible writer and former neighbor Michael Swanwick. (If you haven't read his Dickensian steampunk fantasy The Iron Dragon's Daughter go buy it now. One amazon.com reviewer calls it "a wonderful mixture of 'Oliver Twist' and 'Europa, Europa.'" I would say Tolkein channelled through Don DiLillo.)

Satellite photo of the earth at night.

Ancient Scripts is a site about ancient writing systems, from Khmer to Futhark to Syriac to Oscan to Linear B, including history, phonetics, alphabets, and lots of links.

The former Mossad spy who captured Adolf Eichmann was born in British Palestine, fought with the Haganah, speaks seven languages, and now writes and paints in a studio in Manhattan. Fascinating portrait of a unique individual.

Interplanetary internet. Unfortunately not FTL. Yet.

posted by Judith @ 5/12/2003 09:22:06 AM