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morphodite: baby-faced René Crevel—whose homosexuality and ardent communism led him first to expulsion from the surrealists by the intolerant André Breton and then to gas himself in despair at 35 for reasons political and personal…
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ghosts-in-the-tv: Clint Fulkerson
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thisistheverge: Play practically every game for five vintage consoles in your web browser The Internet Archive is on a mission to ensure that decades-old software isn’t lost to the vicissitudes of time — and that anyone can use it on the web for free. In October, that meant releasing a Javascript port of the extremely…
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The trouble with Twitter isn’t that it’s full of inanity and self-promoting jerks. The trouble is that it’s a solution to a problem that shouldn’t be solved. Eighty percent of the battle of writing involves keeping yourself in that cave: waiting out the loneliness and opacity and emptiness and frustration and bad sentences and dead…
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murketing: Stephen Doyle: A Few Words “Words,” The New York Times, Op-Ed, August 13, 2003 From this slideshow and essay on Doyle’s work by William Drenttel. Read a selection of Drenttel’s writing, assembled by Rick Poynor, here.
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Seasonal visitors from Canada, sometimes as many as thirty.
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prostheticknowledge: Selfie Obliteration Online webtoy by whichlight takes your webcam selfie and disintegrates it with pixel sorting – the results of which are turned into a GIF and can be posted on your Tumblr blog: 2013 was the year of the selfie. 2013 is over. Welcome another you. You can try it out for yourself…
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paperbits: MicroSD Cards contain hackable CPUs: Bunnie Huang has found that SD cards contain CPUs with vulnerabilities, which allow arbitrary code execution. On the dark side, code execution on the memory card enables a class of MITM (man-in-the-middle) attacks, where the card seems to be behaving one way, but in fact it does something else.…
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theories-of: Catharine Ahearn Untitled, 2013 gouache, india ink and dyes on canvas 244 x 122 cm