Category: words

  • explore-blog: For Basquiat’s birthday, his magnificent illustrations for Life Doesn’t Frighten Me – Maya Angelou’s children’s verses on fear and courage.

  • sharing the cosmic cold sore: a meditation on life, death, and art (and anthony’s new book)

    sharing the cosmic cold sore: a meditation on life, death, and art (and anthony’s new book) amandapalmer: cross-posted from my blog…if you’d like to comment (i’d like you to comment) please do so ON THE BLOG!! the conversations there are wonderful and i try and read everything you all are talking about. it’s a wonderful…

  • The Values of Money

    The Values of Money thaumatropia: Money is a sign of poverty. It took a few Scottish sci-fi authors to point this out, but it is the most obvious fact ab… The Middle Class get to keep their money, but in exchange for a social isolation that horrified me when I first encountered it. The truth…

  • brucesterling: http://www.tumblr.com/liked/by/brucesterling *I hate to break it to you guys, but this stuff is lots better than my actual Tumblr here  this one should go recursively fractal 😉

  • Health Care Experience? – Hospital CEOs Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Health Care Experience

    Health Care Experience? – Hospital CEOs Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Health Care Experience shrinkrants: “ In 1988, Alain Enthoven advocated in Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in Health Care Finance, a book published in the Netherlands, that to decrease health care costs it would be necessary to break up the "physicians’ guild” and replace…

  • Games rely on the incongruity between inner and outer experience. Yet their dependence on concrete rules have created a culture disproportionately fond of logic. Players romance the poetry of the command prompt while ignoring the entropic ennui of the organism staring at it. Mike Thomsenhttp://thenewinquiry.com/essays/reign-in-drool/ (via notgames)

  • andreiarsenyevich: On the set of Stalker (1979) by Tarkovsky

  • simultaneousvisions: Richard Anuszkiewicz, “Spectral O” portfolio, artist’s proof E Silkscreen1969

  • Claire Davis personified the love and kindness she learned from her family. All of Colorado feels that. They are in our hearts. JOHN HICKENLOOPER (via hcknloopr)

  • Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who are oppressed, because if they’re going to change the world we live in, they—and all of us—have to be able to think about a world that works differently. Samuel Delaney…