I recently came across The Blog of the Damned — a group weblog that has compiled some interesting instances of “forteana 2.0 and the uncanny internet.” One entry in particular really jumped out at me: The Browser as Scrying Tool — that is, the literalization of the metaphor that “the Internet is haunted, and that… Continue reading The Web Browser as Ouija Board
Tag: death
Post of the Living Dead
This blog will someday end, whether by choice, by ennui, by hacker attacks, or by the author’s demise. In anticipation of its death, I begin with this first post. A post of the living dead. And the zombie hoard is only rising: “Dead Blogs” (Times Daily, June 2007) “Millions of Dead Blogs Won’t Stop Blogging”… Continue reading Post of the Living Dead