OMG the Web is Zombie Eating MY BRAIN!!! (Part 1) - Quentin Hardy ...

In her outstanding book on photographer Edward Muybridge, Rebecca Solnit recounts a death, during the first running of a passenger railroad in 1830, because a man could not step off the track in time from a long-seen locomotive going perhaps 30 miles an hour .... I have been a traveling salesman, a street peddler, a ghost writer, and a bellboy at a hotel in Alaska. I've got degrees from Kenyon and the University of London, and held a Knight-Bagehot fellowship at Columbia. ...