Entries Tagged as ‘creative writing’

November 13, 2008

The Great Gig in The Sky

Sad news to hear today that Jimi Hendrix Experience drumming pioneer extraordinairre Mitch Mitchell has passed away.
{The 61-year-old was discovered in the Benson Hotel in Portland, Oregon, in the early hours of Wednesday.
A medical examiner told the Associated Press news agency that his death appeared to be from natural causes, but said there would be [...]

September 2, 2008

The Causes of Modern Rage

I remember this really standing out in the Dictionary of Philosophy.
There was an entry about Habermas and his theories of language.  To explain his take on the development of language, the entry included the word being, struck out, just like that.
As I remember, the question is; what would happen if the word ‘being’ was expunged [...]

August 14, 2008

217 Babel Street – A Jeff Noon Project

217 Babel Street is a web of interconnected stories set in a seaside apartment block. There are twenty apartments in the building. Each of the four writers works independently of the others, starting off stories from different rooms. New pages are produced by creating a link from a word or a phrase on a page [...]

August 12, 2008

Google me this !

Cuil eyes up Google

The name means “wisdom” in Gaelic, from the legend of Finn MacCuil.
That brings in a Teoma connection. Teoma is apparently a Gaelic word for “cunning.”
Check out this new search engine @ www.cuil.com
I like [...]