I don't know why I dig the hell out of pictures of abandoned buildings. But I do.

Found via Boing Boing.

Been here for a while? Don't mind this post. I'm going to be handing out this URL to people this weekend and just in case I don't get a chance to change the layout so the links actually appear here to my left (your right), I thought I would put them here so as not to cause unrest.

To buy Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point (a.k.a. the novel), click here.

To buy Magnificent Desolation (a.k.a. the short story book), click here.

Here's the other sites you can pummel yourself with:

Needcoffee.com (a.k.a. the crazy site)

Dark Blue Monstropolis (a.k.a. the sci-fi shared universe site)

Something Else (a.k.a. the short story site)

Okay, that's it. Everybody back to whatever it is they were doing.

Well, here's some fun.

The Large-Hatted One stated–before he got his new sombrero: "We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism that has at its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."

Is it just me, or is it ironic that the guy who now has a stranglehold on the spirituality of 1 billion+ people, (their number, as I understand it) and wants to maintain the orthodoxy of those 1 billion+ people, is bitching about, to paraphrase using his words, "the absolute rule of belief in non-absolutes?"

Well, what else can we expect the guy who now has that kind of absolute power–and an absolute power supposedly gifted to him by God–to say? Jeff Jarvis is right: the dinosaurs roar.

And people who don't need a go-between to talk to the Almighty respond with a yawn.

Update: As FutureWire called attention to, only 20% of American Catholics are sheep, at least in regards to following the teaching of the Large-Hatted One. Three-fourths prefer to think for themselves, schmuck. There is some comfort in this.

Here's some fun. Check out this bit from Ross Mayfield's blog. He was told that the limit on books you could carry on a plane was four now, and would be two later.

Now, as mentioned in the comments, there might be some confusion as to how many books of matches you're allowed to bring on a plane. But my initial thought was, of course, 'Ah-HA! They've figured it out! Information is the true weapon that can destroy us all! Books are dangerous! And anybody who reads that much is sure to be suspect! Unleash the hounds!'

But then, I came to my senses and realized if somebody these days was carrying books, they would probably be copies of The DaVinci Code.

If you think about it, no matter which way this story goes, we're doomed.

Found via Boing Boing.

His work can be found here. Excellent and surreal, it reminds me a lot of a dead project I worked on where a number of alien artifacts were involved.

For future reference, Unrealised Moscow, a gallery of building projects that never happened.

Neat reference material for creating a totalitarian world where they go apeshit extoling their own virtues (read: wealth and power) in stone.

Found via Boing Boing.

These already play a role in DBM, but I just love this idea. Giant serene airships letting you download porn wirelessly from, as they say, an area the size of Texas. I love the future.

Found via Kurzweil AI.