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syfycity: Looking at maybe getting a custom PC for the first time in ~6 years. I wouldn’t mind a kind of cyberpunk feel to it, but in the sleek way (not neon everywhere with windows). Anyone have any suggestions for good cases?http://syfycity.tumblr.com
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blakegopnik: DAILY PIC: This is a detail from “Caesura” by Emily Henretta, on view now at Room East in New York. The piece is a woodcut printed on copper-green rice paper, and what I especially like about it is the way Henretta uses the crudest, most primitive printmaking technique to render a circuit board, that…
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This set of circa 100 miniature books dating from 1649 and onwards, is currently for sale at one of the most renowned auction houses in Stockholm, Sweden. Complete with a miniature bookshelf. More details, and possibilities to place a bid right here. via booksnbuildings
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kateoplis: “A whisky sipped in a room smelling of fresh-cut grass with the sound of sheep ‘baa-ing’ in the background tastes different from having the same drink in a sweet-smelling, red room with piano music playing.”
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maxistentialist: The Washington Post: Chris Cox, 45, a chain-saw sculptor from Mount Pleasant, S.C., grabbed the attention of shutdown-weary Washington on Wednesday when he showed up with all his gear and was reportedly spotted mowing the lawn at the Lincoln Memorial. He said the police chased him away, but it was too late. He said…
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The advocates of microeconomic reform have had no new ideas for decades. Rather talk of a new reform agenda inevitably ends up scraping the barrel for items of unfinished business left over from the agenda of the 1980s. The biggest item of unfinished business is industrial relations. Although unions have been greatly weakened, and security…
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At the age of thirty I came back to New York to be literary, and it worked. Return of the native in the clothing of the naïf. Wolf in clothing of sheep. I had abruptly tired of outposts, of decentralized living—the city still an epicenter—and I had something very specific I wanted to do, within…
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nevver: Victor Papanek
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NASA’s shots of the astronauts walking purposefully towards the launch bay – repeated regularly in TV coverage of the landing – were carefully crafted to mimic the slow walk of Cowboys in the cinematic tradition of Westerns NASA’s moon landing remembered today as a promise of a ‘future which never happened’ at ScienceBlog, covering a…
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lareviewofbooks: Science Fiction Television: Still Lost in Space? …. Has science fiction (sf) television been unjustly maligned? Although I’d be the first to agree that many sf series fail to inspire the hope that “science fiction” and “quality” would together, I also strongly believe in the potentials of both genre and medium. Despite glib (if…