These were all the rage in Italy. This guy seems to think that the French are to blame.
of these I’ve only read Riddley Walker. I really need to read all the Cordwainer Smith books.
Sandia’s Z machine normally works like this: 20 million amps of electricity pass through a small core of vertical tungsten wires finer than human hairs. The core is about the size of a spool of thread. The wires dissolve instantly into a cloud of charged particles called a plasma.
The plasma, caught in the grip of the very strong magnetic field accompanying the electrical current, is compressed to the thickness of a pencil lead. This happens very rapidly, at a velocity that would fly a plane from New York to San Francisco in several seconds.
At that point, the ions and electrons have nowhere further to go. Like a speeding car hitting a brick wall, they stop suddenly, releasing energy in the form of X-rays that reach temperatures of several million degrees — the temperature of solar flares.
Misprint Magazine, a bi-monthly cultural publication from Austin, Texas.
AKA Anthony’s zine.
hilarious. i’ll sell my domain for $5 million no prob.
also, many times i have emailed labels in the garage genre and they have thought i was misprint records and asked to do a trade.
Social software is the experimental wing of political philosophy, a discipline that doesn’t realize it has an experimental wing.