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<i>People in Glass Houses - An Insider's Story of a Life in and out of Hillsong</i> by Tanya Levin. It's about the Pentecostal Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, which has grown into a multi-million dollar, tax-free ('not for profit') enterprise.

A great deal of Frank Zappa's output. Certain songs endure, though.

I am in the midst of an extended Art of Noise and Severed Heads renaissance. Also, Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective, though manic, is good.

All self-help books and how-to-get-rich books. Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Astral Disaster Limited. I was reading about this being one of their least accessible albums but on first listen it became one of my favourites ever. That and Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 2, both make for excellent listening in these darkening Autumn days.

Cycling may or mayn't be better for the individual in terms of pollution, but it is certainly better for the city as a whole. A few weeks ago I spent a day cycling around Shanghai. It was like being a platelet in a blood stream. A grand tonic for the collective consciousness, and the...

Nordic folk make the end-of-sentence inhalation audible to emphasise a point they have just made. Time passes faster in the Northern hemisphere.

A small bird had gotten caught in a stormwater drain about 20ft high, had died, slid all the way to the bottom where there was a small rusted hole just big enough for the bird’s wing to protrude and spread perfectly as if in flight. Moderate amounts of psilocybes a few nights ago yielded no...

Yeah I'd be up for that, actualize a few people, would be fun.

This called to mind an image I once saw of a pyramidal grave within which a man was rumoured to have been buried in full dinner dress, at a set table, with a bottle of claret in his hand. After a bit of googling I figured out it was Mad Jack Fuller. There are some images of his, and other...

The Complete Works of Saki

Depends on the context.

Underground Now and again we go exploring stormwater drains and the like, full of interesting surprises like steps-cum-waterfalls, sudden high caverns, nice graffiti and secret messages. Didn't make it down any drains when last in London but here are some sites detailing potentially interesting...

I've lived in Melbourne-town all my life, though come August I am undertaking a latitudinal switch.

Leaf cutting ants have a symbiotic relationship with a fungus which they nourisg with leaves, and which in turn nourishes their larvae. Quid pro quo...

I've heard from more than one source that the Megaloponera foetens is a fabrication of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, however it is more a combination of truths than a diversion from a truth. Although I haven't read it, <i>Parasites in Social Insects</i> by Paul Schmid-Hempel is supposed to...

Ricky Swallow's iMan prototypes

Wow. That's intense. Maybe it's a leakage in some sort of ancient portal, whhich throughout the millennia has been patched over with genetic code.

<i>The Shout</i> is a good 70s British horror, being an example of that interesting strand of BH based on a theoretical, invisible phenomenon converting the protagonists themselves from victim to villain, which Terry Nation has thoroughly explored both in Doctor Who and Blakes 7. <i>Lair of the...

Something I wondered aloud on my blog the other day and would be interested in responses to; <i>backtrack > 2 days ago, and I am wondering why we humans, of the hybrid dental set, are constantly producing films and concepts and images based on humanoids with the teeth of carnivores, but seldom...