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• Cyberculture & the Net

  Phrostbyte.net is signing off

  08.14.06 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I officially closed phrostbyte.net today. Phrostbyte holds a certain amount of sentimental value to me. It was an ugly site when it was up, but it was completely original. I wrote the site entirely by hand in html, which I learned as I went along. Later, I added things like javascript and CGI, skills that [...]

• History & Anthropology

  The dead city of Pripyat

  04.26.06 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Today is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I was unaware of this until I heard it this morning on the radio while driving to work. Completely by coincident, a friend of mine and I were looking at pictures of the dead city of Pripyat yesterday, a city in northern Ukraine. Pripyat was evacuated [...]