Wednesday, December 10

Bookish: EXPRESSION
& ESOTERICA (6#) -

At 60: Human Rights - Are we human yet?

This is the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Over the years, it has become a kind of set of ideals people all over the world can aspire to. [voa]

# A feature story about
barrier-breaking American publisher
Barney Rosset by Louisa Thomas at Newsweek. [via]

# Agrippa is an esoteric 1992 poem by
writer William Gibson in a collaborative project.

"Its principal notoriety arose from the fact that the poem, stored on a 3.5" floppy disk, was programmed to erase itself after a single use."

:: Read more about the background on it ::here::

:: The Agrippa Files :: via [slashdot]

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