Konsumprodukt - Rumbero Elegante

Robert Johnson - They're Red Hot

Action News Team - How to Defend Yourself Against Fresh Fruit

This album is tagged on Bandcamp as: 

"alternative blues experimental folk punk free free download free sex garage sex pants shitty Edmonton" 

Just about sums it up. 

Here's the link. 

Some science-related stuff that's caught my attention recently

Pitch Drop Experiment At Trinity College Dublin Yields Single Drip After 69 Years

Giant viruses open Pandora's box

Cosmologist claims Universe may not be expanding

International Center of  Unconventional Computing

Monogamy evolved to keep baby-killers away

Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories

New website pictures

Many thanks to my mate James for making me look presentable on my website.

I thought it was time to update the pictures as the previous ones were taken in 2004.

Whilst adding the new photos, I've made some slight updates to the stories Seven Days of Deconstruction and Siegfried The Tree.  Good to be able to do this before they appear in print next year :)

SALT - Wisława Szymborska

Here's some serious poetry - the fourth collection by the Nobel Prize winning poet, Wisława Szymborska - available for free.

Refreshingly honest advertising

Bogomilism

Currently reading Europe by Norman Davies (a large volume covering the beginning of time to the present day).  I've got as far as the Medieval period so far.  

I'm particularly interested in the short section on Bogomilism.  

The Wikipedia entry on Bogomilism begins: 

Bogomilism was a Gnostic religiopolitical sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Petar I in the 10th century. It most probably arose in what is today the region of Macedonia as a response to the social stratification that occurred as a result of the introduction of feudalism and as a form of political movement and opposition to the Bulgarian state and the church.

The Bogomils called for a return to early Christianity, rejecting the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and their primary political tendencies were resistance to the state and church authorities. This helped the movement spread quickly in the Balkans, gradually expanding throughout the Byzantine Empire and later reaching Kievan Rus', Bosnia, Dalmatia, Rascia, Italy, France.

The Bogomils were dualists in that they believed the world was created not by the Abrahamic God, but by an evil demiurge — the Devil. They did not use the cross nor build churches, preferring to perform rituals outdoors.

Continues here. 

Niall O'Sullivan

Accidental art

Not sure who drew this diagram or what purpose it serves, but I kind of like it...