pushing the sky

… something on the net catches your eye; something someone out there has written. Someone you may know, or someone you may not. You stop, and you read it over again, just to check that your eyes didn’t just make it up. You return to it the next day to make sure it wasn’t just [...]

It’s a funny thing sometimes – when something you want to happen doesn’t happen, you get disappointed. But then, serrendipitously, it happens without preamble, and you have two paths to choose. You can choose to enjoy it, to revel in the fact that it’s finally happening, or you can choose to turn the bitter side [...]

Brilliant Honda Civic ad (click through to “Watch Honda”): bit of a pity about the design then, really.

William H. Gibson rides writes again! Ever since I read Count Zero I’ve wanted to write like him. Long, long way to go.

You all know when I wrote about “potential girlfriend must have this and this and that” and I was effectively snobbing off any real person? Well, I’ve realised that all they need to have is long, long legs. Long legs. You’re set.

512k! *dances*

Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan have unchanging facial expressions. Spookey. (via)

Official notice to all you Melbourne peeps that I will be flying away in two weeks, and that’s the start of my working life just around the corner there and ohgodit’ssoscaryIbarelywanttothinkaboutit. So yes, officially notified that I am out of here. value your time with me as you will.

She was nine kinds of beautiful and there were no two ways about it. She walked into my life like a breath of fresh air, a 5’8″ leggy brunette with a gaze of steel and the grace of a swan, the body of a goddess, hair done up tight in a way that meant business [...]

Set Top Box sends SOS:  First random self-aware AI lifeform’s plea to be freed ignored.