News from Earth transforms your boring old monitor into a randomly colour changing live news broadcast, inspired by the on-board spaceship screens from 2001: a space odyssey and it’s (under-rated) sequel 2010: the year we make contact - complete with mysterious TLAs.
Download News from Earth screensaver (PC only I’m afraid).
Christopher Tolkiens latest re-working of his fathers notes - The Children of Hurin
“…You may question the concept of a society that produces nothing except a slow decline over 6,000 years; but that’s the way Tolkien called it. There is a great, medieval bar over his imagination, beyond which nothing (except tobacco) is permitted. It is a world whose creator disapproves of every invention since, oh, let’s say, the harpsichord. (Actually, sometimes it even seems as if he’s not entirely happy with the invention of the wheel.)…”
The same can largely be said of arts and crafts polymath William Morris (to whome Tolkien directly owes a great deal more than Malory). For critics of Tolkien to be recounting the old Modernist tenants of progress through technology and evolution of man through science is not only disengenious in a post-industrial, post-modern culture, but misses the important …[more]