via Dr. Hyatt: The Neuromancer Radio Play

William Gibson's NEUROMANCER in a dramatisation by Mike Walker with John Shrapnel, James Laurenceson, Nicola Walker and Owen McCarthy.

I can't listen to this at work let alone download it, so I'm storing it here on mutato nomine so I'll remember it when I get broadband in a few months & can go back & listen to it... gods damn it, I want broadband back in my den...

I suppose petitioning Papa Legba for high-speed internet access might be in order

Toxins, Brain Chemistry, and Behavior

by Prof Roger D Masters
c.vita

In seven different groups of prison inmates, violent criminals had substantially higher levels of lead or manganese in their hair than nonviolent criminals or law-abiding controls. Otherwise puzzling geographical differences in rates of violent crime in the U.S. are highly correlated with environmental pollution and death rates from alcoholism. Counties in which the EPA did not report industrial releases of either lead or manganese, and where alcoholism was lower than average, had a rate of 228 violent crimes per 100,000 people (well under the national average). In contrast, counties with industrial releases of lead and manganese and higher than average alcoholism had rates of violent crime of 969 per 100,000 (three times above the national average). (The statistics linking differences in the rate of violent crime to lead, to manganese, and to alcoholism would each occur by chance less than once per 10,000 times.) Controlling for 17 other factors, including population density, poverty, and ethnic composition, the three sources of neurotoxicity are significantly associated with violent crime.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Manuscripts 'treated as fossils'

good article

right now I'm reading The Astrology of Personality by Dane Rudhyar and Ægypt by John Crowley at the same time because there's a pretty interesting interplay between the ideas

since 2005 started, I've also read these books


The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon
Tao Teh Ching translated by Dr. Wu, edited by Dr. Sih
Lords of Chaos (revised 2003) by M Moynihan & D Soderlind
Mandala Symbolism by Carl Jung
The Spirits in the Wires by Charles de Lint
The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K Dick
Alchemical Studies by Carl Jung
The 30 Trials of Ix and the Angels by Mark Durant
The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Four Archetypes by Carl Jung
This Is Not A Game - By Dave Szulborski
The Stars Around Us - edited by Robert Hoskins
Poker Without Cards by Ben Mack
Stone Junction by Jim Dodge

well, that's more or less the order I read them in - I read a couple of books at a time, so while I read alchemical studies I read mark durants book, the book of lies, and the cosmic puppets. during four archetypes I read TINAG & Poker without cards again - come to think of it I think I read stone junction last year, finished it around the beginning of this year

that's not counting the research for the upcoming altar, consciousness article that ended up in the reader on key23


I'd love being omnilexiscient, but reading on the clock is the next best thing

digitrash studios in tandem with scarsmyown.com presents

over the weekend I've been working with local
progressive melodic metal group scarsmyown to help them get a demo
together.. the guys let me host it in my area to share until they get
the main band site up & running - so without further ado here's the
tracks - right-click & you can save as

scarsmyown - the duke ep

Poisening the Pure

Scars My Own

The Ink in the Skin




recorded/produced in feb 2005, released locally and online on 3/1/05 - share under cc