Issue 29

..has a great chapter on anarchism and the gross social inequalities that caused it. My research was brought on by a passing reference in last month’s blogette (which you have forgotten already you ungrateful Christmas hung-over swine!) to my antipodean romantic infatuation with the Black Flag of Anarchism. The sheer panic that was engendered by…

..those console models with doors that you opened when the family gathered around for the evening’s entertainment, and then discreetly closed again when the TV station went off the air at 11 o’clock, so that the unsightly TV screen was hidden from decent people’s view the next day and all you saw was a rather…

Anthems are sung – New Zealand gets three verses one in Maori and two in English to Australia’s single chorus. Hymns are sung with embarrassed and tremulous Australian accents. The service, my first for about 60 years, is lead without apparent irony by a Vietnamese minister; there is a moving address in a Scottish accent,…

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The idea of a Metaverse did not arise with Linden Lab, but had its genesis in a Commodore computer game from Lucasfilm called Habitat, Lucasfilm being the film production company that brought us the steadily declining Star Wars franchise. Habitat was made available in 1987 by the corporate progenitor of America Online, Quantum Link. It…