Month: October 2014

  • larrymarotta: Commodore Amiga computer equipment used by Andy Warhol, 1985-86 

  • I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else. Jorge Luis Borges (via fuckyeahjorgeluisborges)

  • Boing Boing has a linking policy [2004]

    mostlysignssomeportents: After years of making fun of “linking policies” that set out the terms under which a website can be linked to, Boing Boing has decided to create a linking policy of our own. Here it is — now, abide by it! Boing Boing doesn’t believe in linking policies. They’re dangerous, have no basis in…

  • andreii-tarkovsky: ”My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the images which they are. We have forgotten how to relate emotionally to art: we treat it like editors, searching in it for that which the artist has supposedly hidden. It is actually much simpler than…

  • Hacker School grants for women, people of color, other people under-represented in tech

    mostlysignssomeportents: Nicholas writes, “Hacker School is a three-month, free-for-everyone programming retreat for experienced and new programmers alike, now offering need-based living expense grants to women, black people, Latino/as, and people from many other groups traditionally underrepresented in programming. Read the rest…

  • Intel issues apology after backlash from #GamerGate opponents

    Intel issues apology after backlash from #GamerGate opponents likeapairofbottlerockets: ahahahhaa

  • He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. Jean-Luc Godard (via neuromaencer)

  • syfycity: No more runnin’

  • endthymes: nam june paik, ‘tv cello’  1971; video tubes, tv chassis, plexiglass boxes, electronics, wiring, wood base, fan, stool, photograph

  • National Day Dawns on the Hong Kong Protests

    newyorker: Jiayang Fan reflects on growing demonstrations in Hong Kong:  “Twenty-five years after the Tiananmen Square massacre, in which Beijing violently cracked down on a peaceful student protest for democracy, the images of umbrellas … have come to represent a movement.” Photograph from Reuters