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Cartoons have an equivalent to cyberspace known as hammerspace . It is the place where cartoon characters store and retrieve that stuff (oft...

Many women in the Balkans pretend to be men and live as such to avoid repressive laws. Okay.

A frankly bizarre tale about how unrealistic expectations heaped upon Japan's youth is causing an outbreak of mental illness. My sympat...

The Californian Ideology is the name of a paper about the philosophy (neo-liberalism) that powered the dotcom boom. I'm slightly ashame...

A curious post on Ptak about the eyes of John Dee - probably the most famous English magus who was court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I an...

Again a good series of thoughts about how to depict fights - this time of the hand-to-hand variety not ship-to-ship. I can think of only a ...

More for reference than anything else but this is a great consideration of the problems of space warfare . It's useful as it strives to ...