Quirky and reverential, dark and droll by turn, it follows the faceless baby Levi’s journeys in to and out of the world. They are escapes, but as some sage once observed, only a jailer would consider the term ‘pejorative’.

Heaving with giant full colour illustrations and oozing zoology charm – I had to have it.

Douglas Coupland has created a pastiche set of Penguin covers illustrating our history. It’s been done before but with Douglas’ quixotic approach and astute perception this set works beautifully.

There are warehouses full of them.  Poor little :CueCats™ motionless on dusty shelves fooled into believing Barcode scanning Nirvana was their destiny.  Alas the 1990’s :CueCat concept was a commercial failure. ‘CRQ’ (a word play on ’see our cue‘) is software developed by Digital:Convergence intended to convert ‘Cues’ from television signals and the :Cuecat bar code reader into URLs.   Apple laptopPro users are using ‘declawed’ :CueCats with the movie/book/music catalogs program Delicious Library.  They can also use the :CueCat with the Pedia (Bookpedia, CDpedia, DVDpedia, Gamepedia) line of applications from Bruji.  Thanks to folks over at the Social Book Network LibraryThing it is now purring, clawing and devouring it’s way through my books with gusto.  I wish it’s tail would wag…

A pivotal point in Phil Dick’s career and his first taste of national publicity, this 6-page article speculates on the 1971 break-in of Philip K. Dick’s apartment, among other things.

Written by his friend Paul Williams, this story is a snapshot of the period’s cultural landscape as well as an in-depth investigation into Phil Dick’s personal and professional life.

Download the .PDF article (from www.phillipkdickfans.com) here.