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Chronic Citizen: Jonathan Lethem on P.K. Dick, Why Novels are a Weird Technology, and Constructed Realities | h+ Magazine
"Dick was supremely labile. He has the power to put himself, as a writer, at the mercy of his own inventions. He could construct realities and then immerse himself in them as though helpless."
The Atlantic | February 1992 | "To Be" in Their Bonnets | Murphy
"Advocates of E-Prime, for reasons I'll come to, favor the elimination in English of every form of the verb "to be"—be, been, is, am, are, was, were, 'm, 's, 're, and all the rest."
The mystery of Zomia - The Boston Globe
"In his most speculative and contested claim, Scott argues that even the lack of a written language in many Zomian societies is an adaptive measure and a conscious societal choice."
Darpa Plan: Turn Warzone Data into Simple Stories | Danger Room
a series of intelligent algorithms that can pull all of this information together, tease out its underlying meanings, and put it in a narrative that’s easy to follow
The China Beat: Wei Cheng: From an Elite Novel to a Popular Metaphor
More broadly speaking, “Wei Cheng” can also be used to describe the dilemma of perpetual human dissatisfaction.
Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable « Clay Shirky
“How did we get from the world before the printing press to the world after it? What was the revolution itself like?”
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“How did we get from the world before the printing press to the world after it? What was the revolution itself like?”
BLDGBLOG: Planet Harddrive
what if we could manipulate the earth's own magnetic field and thus program data into the natural energy curtains of the planet?
BLDGBLOG: The Akwizgran Discrepancy
the 'Akwizgran Discrepancy', "a forgotten thread of diplomatic folklore."
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
"Xin Falu Xiansheng Tan" is one of the first modern Chinese science fiction stories. Mr. Absurdity is a man whose soul is separated from its body during a typhoon
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Knights of the Air.
Zhang Huizan (a.k.a Zhang Huizhang, a.k.a. W.J. Chang) , "China's Lindbergh," the first Chinese pilot to successfully complete a long distance flight in Asia & his fictional wuxia wife
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Setting and premise for free! Come and get your story setting and premise!
Two-fisted manuscript acquisition in the Far East! Soviet librarians versus Mongolian bandits and rogue booksellers on the steppes of Mongolia!
Slouching Towards Bethlehem - in an effort to provide distraction...
Check out Chinese detective's #55 and the detective's wife.
An Alternate History of Chinese Science Fiction
The mountains are high, the emperor is far away...but the editor's carnation pencil is everywhere.
[[动画]中国首部动画广告片创作时间考]_[动漫前线]_天涯社区
《舒振东华文打字机》was the Wan Brothers first animated work, and an ad for a typewriter from the Commercial Press
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《舒振东华文打字机
YTJTANG - Google Patents
Lin Yutang's patent for a Chinese typewriter
林語堂故居
Lin Yutang's keyboard was authorized to be used in IBM's Chinese-English translation machine, as well as Itek's electronic translators
Visiting the home of a master: Lin Yutang's House
invented device to help squeeze toothpaste - like the Dad in Gremlins!
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