How was Léon Theremin to know that the revolutionary, magical electronic instrument he developed in the 1920s was going to inspire, decades later, bland, repetitive techno music that only works if you’re peaking on contraband pharmaceuticals. We can forgive him this lack of foresight; for the most part, the Theramin has been used sensibly since [...]

Why Jailbreak?
Apple’s Iphone is a very clever, groundbreaking device capable of running hundreds of thousands of micro-apps, so why bother “Jailbreaking” or opening up your phone to software unblessed by Apple. Many people don’t see the point and are afraid that they will do permanent damage to their phone, or void their warranty. It’s not common [...]

Grain of wood
In the collective public consciousness there exists an exogenous landscape of generic Lumbertowns ringed by mountains and curtained by foreboding stands of unnamed conifers. An idyllic outer-urban cabin; wood nymphs: rural-fied urban exiles, back-to-the-land Harrowsmith and Mother Earth renegades, Theodore Kaczynski, various machine ragers, archetypal mad-trappers and assorted bio-diverse humanoids of the epi-subsoil realm. To [...]
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