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Sears launches Zombie Shopping Department. via Laughing Squid I was interviewed about  The Political Economy of Zombies  today and was ...

People's Meeting Dome -   Kristoffer Tejlgaard  and  Benny Jepsen [This is the fourth short story in a series,  the 1st story is  ...

First horseless carriage in Vancouver  (1899) "Can't get there from here" is the punch line of an old joke about a driver...

The Walking Dead  as drawn by Robert Kirkman via Wikia I am vindicated, or at least justified, or perhaps I've just had a bias co...

Boston Dynamic's "Big Dog" [This is the third short story in a series,  the first story is  here ; the second is  here ]...

Interior of Amazon’s giant "fulfilment centre" ( Photo by Ben Roberts ) via James Bridle Besides the trends of population gro...

“The Falls” at Lake Las Vegas, Henderson, Nevada (2011). [Photo by Michael Light] via Design Observer [The following is the 2nd shor...

Abandoned Spanish housing estates (Photographs by Simon Norfolk/Institute) via The New Yorker [Part 2/12 - Return to Part 1/12 ] I lik...

Carnegie Library (1913)   [The following is the first of 12 short stories, introduced here .]   Little Jo watched David as he barked...

My sculpture, Die Die Die (2003), set just about where Frank Gehry's Downtown Guggenheim was slated to go.    This past spring I st...

Google search "Dawn of the Dead"  Today is the 2nd anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street protests, and coinciding with th...

Rev. Robert L Powers (far right) singing with his fellow clergy in Selma Alabama, showing their  support for Martin Luther King  (1965) ...