It's been a while since I've visited Beflix's excellent gallery of visual glitches. Nestled within the 'slick site for the consumer generation, replete with their dreadful always-plugged-in ipod ear corks' remains a touching nod to the past.

I've long been fascinated by techniques for finding inspiration through randomness, or at least pseudo random.

... or William Seward Burroughs' The Commissioner of Sewers. I've feasted on the fine man's words in the past few days and as the hysteria of Obama '08 subsides I enjoyed bringing myself down to Earth with this reading.

However I'm far too cold and destitute to take advantage so cutting up pieces of paper is my Friday night.

I've stumbled upon this excellent collection of recordings of William S. Burroughs, author of Junky, Naked Lunch etc. Well worth a listen.

I have just stumbled across Warren Ellis' thoughts on Second Life entitled Second Life Sketches. They're an interesting read for this non-Second Lifer and have me thinking about test driving the linux client, though I suspect that my video card might not handle it.