This Monday's web-aggregation has come up with several items - sadness, fear and interest in (fairly) equal measure;
 First up, someone's done a Top Twenty Geek Novels. Pleasing to see a couple of PKD's in there and I have no argument with any of the others, with the exception of the single entry by The Twat in the Hat (sorry, Terry, but that's what they call you...). It's 'Geek Novels', not 'Things Socially Inept Teenagers Find Funny'. | |
| Further Dick-ness comes in the form of this essay about PKD et. al. suddenly becoming 'relevant' once again in the light of The War Against Terror [© George Walker Bush] (T.W.A.T.). Those of you less ignorant will of course know that PKD's writing has always been 'relevant' - the only thing that changes is the brightness of the meeja spotlight. | |
| Now onto some scary stuff - Google is intent on building The Matrix for real, it would appear. According to this chap, we'll soon have 'the internet' (which will probably reside in the virtual equivalent of a bench outside King's Cross) and 'the Google Internet', which we'll probably have to interface with via some sort of face-hugging device. |  |
| More future fear and loathing comes with the news of a planned remake of The Prisoner. Why can't these people just leave things the fuck alone? When will we see an online multimedia remake of the Mona Lisa ?? | |
| With scaryduck's carefully humourous accounts of last week's Information Society debacle in Tunisia, it would appear dissent is 'discouraged' there. Not if you're Richard M. Stallman, however. | |
| Finally some truly bad news - Link Wray will riff no more on this earth. However, future Wrays may very well play one of these. RIP, LW. | 
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