I have to get to the airport in June, but Monique has to work that morning, so we looked up the Skybus website which has a *handy* trip planner. You tell it where you are in Melbourne, and what time your flight is, and it tells you how to get to Spencer St in [...]

Thanks to the wonders of the Heromachine you can now see what I would look like as a Superhero : Technomancer, striking fear into the hearts of lusers with his black sysadmin clothes and terrible LART stick. Click the image for a larger image.
Note the head kicking boots and black coat, very accurate. [...]

Hey you know those Society for Creative Anachronism types, the ones who are
just like you and me all week, but like to dress up and do mediaeval stuff on the weekend….Do you think they have Saturday Knight Fever?
Isn’t it ironic that when you try to explain irony to an Alanis Morisette fan, you can’t think [...]

Which Colossal Death Robot Are You?

Holy Prime Directive, you’re Robocop!
This site tells me : “Well, you’re neither colossal, nor technically a robot, but your arthritic lurching and dubious morals have found their way into the hearts of futuristic rebels and children everywhere. You walk through fire, catch bullets from the air, and you never, ever [...]

This is a bizarre novel. Set in a nonspecific future, this is violent and brutal. Small gangs of youths cruise the less affluent areas of a more or less lawless city, enacting senseless violence and other fun stuff for the pure joy of it. Alex is picked up by the police, goes into prison and [...]