Maybe it’s different in your community. Maybe where you live there’s a diverse array of radio stations, each with distinctive programming visions, run by people motivated by nothing but their love of music and the possibilities of the medium. But in my city we have three or four cookie-cutter formats for dozens of mindless stations […]

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Librarians can catalogue anything from an onion to a dog’s ear. They could catalogue you. Librarians wield unfathomable power. People become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to […]

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For those of you interested in creating writing systems for your own imaginary civilizations, the Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an indispensible resource. Not merely a handy tool for Tolkien wannabes, it serves as a useful ‘aid to explorers of the liminal territory between familiarity and chaos.’ And it’s those spots between familiarity and chaos that […]

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