The new meme - War-Chucking
"War-driving is the practise of driving around detecting open wireless networks for subsequent penetration, but this has already been outmoded by War-Chucking. Vomit on the streets of London is letting on more than you might think!"

The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
"Hitler emigrated to America in 1919 to become a science fiction writer, rather than founding the Nazi party and presiding over one of the most horrific dictatorships in history. But in this parallel universe, his favourite concepts can't help but creep into his works of fiction..."

David Blunkett and the far right
"David Blunkett, British Home Secretary, is seen by many commentators as one of the most right-wing holders of that office in history. Yet he claims to be opposed to extremist parties like the BNP and the NF. In his latest outburst, he has called for people in England to fly the Union Jack and St George's Cross with gusto, believing that this will somehow "ward off" the far right. What is his reasoning?"

The return of political rap
"Paris, the notoriously political rapper whose "Bush Killer" single caused a storm in the early 1990s, has returned, inspired back to the fold by the changes in America's political climate since September 11th. And, for many listeners who mourn the loss of hip-hop's politically-active days, it's not a moment too soon..."

Bodyworlds - a review of the notorious 'Corpse Show'
"Gunther von Hagens' "Bodyworlds" show is currently running on Brick Lane, featuring real corpses and body parts in an attempt to bring an awareness of anatomy to the public. The List gave me a mission - to go down there and investigate!"

A science fiction story for you
"Take a trip into the future to join the wisest but ugliest mole on the whole of Earth Planet Cheese..."

Album: Alice Coltrane: Astral Meditations
"Often overshadowed by memories of her husband John Coltrane - the legendary saxophonist - Alice Coltrane's music subsequent to John's death displayed a formidable level of artistry, as well as an overt preoccupation with the cosmic and the spiritual..."

Mix: DJ Brelson: Space Combat Techno
"mp3 to download! The sort of fast and visionary techno that people like Underground Resistance produce is very close to my heart, and I've always found that it evokes visions of frenetic, intense space battles..."

Artist: Drexciya
"The identities of UR's aquatic assault unit Drexciya have remained secret since their first appearance in 1993. But their audacious approach to techno and electro music, and their mysterious origins as a water-based life form allied to Earth's Resistance movement, have caused them to be a massively influential force in 1990s electronic music..."

Label: Underground Resistance
"The mysterious, prolific and highly imaginative Underground Resistance label has had an enormous, if subtle, effect on electronic music in the 1990s. Their fusion of science fiction, political thought, electronic funk and a cinematic sense of perspective is hard to explain in a single article... but here goes!"

Is Horza a git?
"One eternal argument that all readers of Iain M Banks' novels become embroiled in at some point focuses on Horza, and, in particular, whether or not he is a git. Here is a transcription of one of the many battles that make up this galactic war - ths war of githood!"

Album: Other People Place: Lifestyles of the Laptop Café
"Released on Warp Records in 2001, and produced by an 'anonymous' Detroit artist, "Lifestyles of the Laptop Café" is ideal for the late-night reading of science fiction novels, or as the soundtrack for candle-lit romantic dinners with cyborg dates..."

Review: Mario Kart Super Circuit
"A review of the new Mario Kart game on the Game Boy Advance, written with expert players and SNES veterans in mind..."

Where I live: Whitechapel, London
"I live in a small, very Islamic, enclave of Whitechapel where it's impossible to buy alcohol and you never see drunks on the street..."

Super Mario Kart on NTSC: The Matrix Effect
"Super Mario Kart on the SNES is a brilliant game, and I got to know the PAL version intricately. However, an NTSC machine (which runs at 120% PAL speeds, changing many of the ground-rules) recently entered my social circle. One of the strange things about NTSC Mario Kart is what we have come to call "The Matrix Effect"..."

EP: Quadrant: Quadrant Dub (Basic Channel)
"The sounds are like distant strings scattered throughout the sky, seen through the distortion of heat haze. It's like hearing a wonderfully delicate symphony from the opposite side of a GSV's service bay, the sounds shimmering and refracting on their way across."

EP: Quark: Second Earth
"Any techno fan who remembers going into record shops during 1993, and was repeatedly shocked by the quality of electronic music coming out back then, will most likely have tears come to their eyes when they hear this EP."

The Culture in Meatspace
"The first, very rough, attempt to visualise the real-life meetings of Listees."

Dull Space Nine
"It's boring on the Starship Enterprise - for a change!"

Debunking the Moon Hoax
"What to do when some poor deluded individual pipes up with the suggestion that the Apollo moon landings never took place? It's down to you to take them apart!"

Album: X-102: X-102 Discovers The Rings Of Saturn
"The concept - Saturn's rings. The medium - vinyl. The representation - tracks on the records map to the gas giant's various rings and moons. The final track - "Ground Zero (The Planet)". The music - weird!"

Album: Marvin Gaye: I Want You
"One of the most genuinely sexual records I've come across (even more so than "Let's Get It On"), 1976's "I Want You" sounds like a forty-minute wet dream. But what would you expect from Marvin?"

Network
"Directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Paddy Chayefsky, and released in 1976, 'Network' brilliantly satirises the shrieking emptiness of the world of nationally syndicated television."

Album: Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
"An underwater party - an 'aqua boogie' - is the setting for this appealingly bizarre 1978 album from George Clinton and his P-Funk team."

ASCII Art: www.goatse.cx
"Slightly more controversial than the Mona Lisa..."

Atom Town
"Uninformed speculation on the rapid evolution of miniature technologies as opposed to that of large-scale technologies, and a question: is our technology leading us 'inwards', to a subatomic realm, or 'outward', to the vastness of space?"

Brendan's brush with death
"I had a terrifying experience fairly recently - I very nearly swallowed some broken glass that lunchtime which had been in a meal served at the Belcourt restaurant on Rivington Street (don't go there)..."

Fads of the future: 'Day-freaks'
"'Day-freaks' are people who are obsessed with only one particular day in history. Everything that happened on that day is of great interest to them, but the sun might as well have never risen on the next morning for all they care..."

Storyboard for the intro of a science fiction film
"Shot to a particular piece of music ("Amazon" by Underground Resistance, from their "World to World" release of 1992), this is a description of the first scene of the science fiction epic I will one day produce! Could apply to a Culture movie also..."

Non-artificial, non-human intelligence
"A naive, ill-informed rant about the alien nature of any possible form of machine intelligence, and about the futility of trying to detect machine sentience by looking for human traits and characteristics..."

A cynical view of the 'Happy Dog' future
"Happy Dog is an 'interactive agency' whose corporate literature paints a surreal picture of the world in 2005. It's not intended as science fiction, but it's funny to imagine that it was..."

Movie Review: Deep Rising
"Gang of well-armed good mercenaries end up in a face-off with gang of well-armed bad mercenaries on a cruise ship which has been totalled by a huge, dubiously-rendered monster..."

The Randomisation of Culture
"As communications technology continues to encroach on the human experience... spammers will aim to pump a continual stream of randomised data directly into the brains of every human being on Earth - 24 hours a day."

Ghost Speakers - when one's memes are not one's own
"What's a 'ghost speaker'? Someone who seems to have resorted merely to forwarding on articles and URLs which loosely support their opinions, and supposedly illustrate just how imaginative person that 'ghost speaker' is..."

Proposed programme: RetroOS War!
"The future of reality TV - a simulated 1987 environment is recreated, with only hardware and software of that time available as well as a standard phone line. Two teams of modern-day techies in the RetroOSWar House are tasked with setting up a hardware configuration..."

Is a free market economy a prerequisite for open source?
"Open source is effectively an interesting post-capitalist mode of production. But can it only flourish under free market systems?"

Can USB work on Windows NT 4.0?
"Are the IT department insisting on "upgrading" you to Windows NT 4.0? Are you worried that your USB devices will become redundant? Well, it seems that everything other than your zip drive is in fact doomed..."