I use to have a page with links at useful stuff on it, but that was before Google and Raging were invented.

Instead, here is a eclection of stuff I've accreted over the years that has sentimental value.

• George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" Hmm, these days I'm coming around to the view that there is no real misuse of language, except if you communicate slowley or don't achive the desired meaning in your audience's head. When a public figure evades, distracts, charms and leaves us none the wiser while sounding important, he is employing language with skill. I think language like that is "bad" in a moral sense, not in a technical or artistic sense.
• Masamune Shirow on tanks.
• Iain M. Banks on the Culture.
• Some images stolen from here an there.

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