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  • Book Review: The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

    Book 2 of my Philip K Dick 60s novels binge. I’ll have to write the full review of this book later, another mind-bending story involving hallucinogens, shifting realities, religious epiphanies.

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  • Book Review: Dr. Bloodmoney

    This novel by Philip K. Dick is a bit of a change of pace for the author. The setting for the story is just before and after a Nuclear Apocalypse. There are some familiar Dickian elements: the Gnostic vision of a world ruled over by a false demiurge with a distant, helpless Deity looking on from beyond the planet. In this case the demiurge is the phocomelus Hoppy Harrington and the deity is an orbitting astronaut, the witty radio voice of Dangerfield that people all over the world tune into every night when the satellite he is stranded on is within range.

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  • Zero Day Exploit, part I

    Julia, Sysadmin for Bikürious Delivery, gets woken up at 4am Wednesday morning. There’s an alley-cat at 9am and a new Zero-Day Exploit has just been announced on the feeds. Will she be able to find a fix and have time to patch all of the bikes before the race?

  • CERN experiments observe particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson

    from the CERN press release:

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