February 2012
4 posts
“Interior decorators are the death of recording, actually”
– Brian Eno
January 2012
42 posts
WatchVideo of the panel discussion regarding the Salman Rushdie incident at the JLF. For the record, joeyjoseph is convinced that most parties involved haven’t read The Satanic Verses, and the moderator makes that point at the end. So much fire over something people haven’t experienced. Those of us who have read it, know the joke is on them.
But more surprising and inspiring to me, was...
“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (via miu-sherandhiscollar)
“I have now reached the point where I may indicate briefly what to me constitutes...”
– SO & SO Issue 4 by Alasdair Monk (via banquethall)
An apt use of the word Prisoner! I chose to reply, using this photo:
Watchfloresenelatico:
“Voice Array” (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Crit Lit
For nerdy readers who are curious about the world. For those who find everything interesting. For those who find themselves browsing Wikipedia for fun. For those who enjoy the serendipity of life, and see the connections between everything.
Comes…
Crit Lit - A small information store (because print, while not dead, isn’t the exclusive locus of knowledge) where you can come in, and...
The preview for the next episode of Alec...
“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on...”
– Alfred North Whitehead: Adventures of Ideas (found in the medium is the MASSAGE)
Noah, we were both reading Alfred North Whitehead at the same moment!
In Which I Feel Too Cool
The artist “iPhone” precedes Jan Hammer in my iTunes library. This means that the first song to auto play after one of my voice notes is “Crocketts’ Theme”. It’s my voice, some one minute monolog, frequently a ridiculous idea. Then Crockett’s Theme.
This makes me wonder, assuming there are other people who take voice notes with their iPhones (while...
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Fortunate Ones
I’m going to start a dating site that matches people by the fortunes they receive from fortune cookies. You upload a pic of your fortune/s and we match you with people who have complimentary or similar ones!
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Go-Kart Picard
A dream, in which a friend, upon leaving a midwestern movie theater, becomes Captain Picard, and my car becomes a go-kart, and Picard needs a ride home. When we can’t make UP a nearly vertical freeway exit, I apologize for the delay and we turn around to find another route. Just as we’re about to get underway after turning the go-kart around, the gas pedal breaks. I ask Picard if...
If this blog were about ranting and design, this entry would be about people who think there are no straight lines in nature, and what poor observers of the ‘natural’ world they are.
“The highest state of Love is not a relationship at all, it is simply a state of...”
– Osho
(via maksg)
“a single Global Hawk drone requires 500 megabytes per second worth of bandwidth,...”
– Almost 1 In 3 US Warplanes Is a Drone - Slashdot
Bytes not bombs. Imagine if we gave a fraction of that bandwidth to kids in schools.
WatchApollo 11 Lunar Landing Visualization, 1969 (2011) (by Yanni Loukissas)
As someone who knows parts of the SomaFM Mission Control channel by heart, this is blowing my mind. I want the whole thing. I’d love to sit down, and over the course of several sessions, view the entire mission in real time. Do we have that yet? Does NASA ever run full mission simulations, or have people go over full...
Spit Take of the Day: The NYT's 45 Places to Go in... →
dbreunig:
The top five:
Panama
Helsinki, Finland
Myanmar
London
Oakland, CA
The only explanation for this is probably not a good sign for Oakland. They’ve reached the point where the NYT ceases to pity and has begun exoticizing. To the East Coast, Oakland is practically a banana republic now.
Disappointing Face of the Day →
dbreunig:
Al Franken is pro SOPA. Michaell Bachman is not.
Several surprises on this list.
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“So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference...”
– Derrick Jensen, What We Leave Behind
(via slychedelic)
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Public Radio Is The Best
Several friends or co-people asked what radio shows/podcasts I listened to in 2011. These are all iTunes links where you can subscribe or download.
Radiolab and This American Life are constants.
Benjamin Walker’s Too Much Information
Nick van der Kolk’s Love & Radio
Johnathan Goldstein’s Wiretap (I’m just over halfway through six seasons!)
Roman Mars’ 99%...
A New Form of Storytelling →
A story told with CAPTCHA via @andrewphelps
“In a related species… genital loss does not turn males into fighting machines”
– Eunuch spiders still have balls (via outofcontextscience)
December 2011
29 posts
“Permaculturists maintain that, where vastly differing systems meet, there is an...”
– Permaculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via noahcates)
“He refers to Hokule’a as both a sacred canoe and the spaceship of the...”
– Wade Davis - The Wayfinders