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If I wanted to, I could add Siouxsie Sioux on Facebook. My 14 year old self would be ecstatic at the chance to ‘connect’ so easily with someone whose music shaped a lot of my teen years but at this point technology and changing industry standards has made the void between musician and fan so…
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bashford: The installation ‘bios [bible]’ (2007) by Robotlab consists of an industrial robot which writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision – like a monk in the scriptorium.
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Let us remember that for a lot of people a multivolume encyclopaedia is an impossible dream, not, or not only, because of the cost of the volumes, but because of the cost of the wall where the volumes are shelved. Personally, having started my scholarly activity as a medievalist I would like to have at…
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Two Norwegian psychologists think that modern playgrounds are for wimps. Instead of short climbing walls, there should be towering monkey bars. Instead of plastic crawl tubes, there should be tall, steep slides. And balance beams. And rope swings. The rationale is that the more we shield children from potential scrapes and sprained ankles, the more…
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shopkarma: Philip K. Dick, Martian Time Slip “their light flashed here and there, and their voices could be heard, business-like and competent and patient.” Ballantine Books, New York, 1964 4¼ x 7 inches (10¾ x 17¾ cm) $20 PURCHASE
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It’s not quite the barbarians at the gate, but the stuccoed Knightsbridge headquarters of the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising this week opened its doors to a man whose thinking is largely inimical to the industry’s day-to-day prejudices and practices. The intellectual interloper was no creative renegade, indeed had no particular axe to grind on…
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Western banks ‘reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’ | World news | The Observer
Western banks ‘reaping billions from Colombian cocaine trade’ | World news | The Observer towerofsleep: rematerializationchamber: The vast profits made from drug production and trafficking are overwhelmingly reaped in rich “consuming” countries – principally across Europe and in the US – rather than war-torn “producing” nations such as Colombia and Mexico, new research has revealed.…
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Posteverythingism
Posteverythingism: /poʊst-ˈɛvriˌθɪŋ-ɪzəm/, n.; 1. literally: an after all that is (or all that is related) ism; 2. specifically: the belief that the western philosophical tradition has toppled and that no return to any part can re-establish a productive direction; that it is each generation’s responsibility to look at the world around them and interpret it,…
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Elias typically lists very few references; indeed, frequently there will only be one, perhaps to an obscure book published many years ago. If one complained to Elias that he had failed to address the contemporary literature, or suggested that he was out of date, he would reply that you had a fetish for the new,…
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futurescope: Chip integrates chemical, logic functions via kurzweilai An integrated chemical chip that could control and regulate the signal paths of cells in the human body has been developed by Klas Tybrandt, a doctoral student in Organic Electronics at Linköping University, Sweden. It creates the basis for an entirely new circuit technology based on ions and molecules instead…