Jottings from the Granite Studio

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Eight Days to 08/08/08: The good, the bad, and the usual weirdness

July 31st, 2008 · 12 Comments

I haven’t read the book in years, so memory might fail, but I seem to recall a line (perhaps the opening line) from William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer: “The sky was the color of a tv set turned to a dead station.”
Such is Beijing.
Beijing has announced ’special environmental measures’ that can be implemented on an ad [...]

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