January 2012
9 posts
A Chronicle of Doing It | The Classical →
Fascinating article that reads like something from Gibson’s Bigend trilogy. Money may not be able to buy happiness but it can purchase an entire market.
“Fuckery aside, this place is actually beautiful.”
– from Miguel, a U.S. Marine. Re: Well, it almost does not matter, because we hear this almost everywhere we work. (UPDATE: O.K., because you asked. Miguel was referring to Afghanistan.)
Feedair Digital Ticker hands-on -- Engadget →
glanceable:
One of the first consumable glanceables.
Feedair is a USB-powered WiFi enabled digital ticker that will span emails and tweets (or anything else with an RSS Feed) to its old-school dot-matrix display. Controlled with an iOS or Android app, it’s designed as an “unobtrusive display:” for those situations where you can keep a casual eye on a physical device or send messages to people...
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“///I need to dump this whole thing [when it’s finished] into a pdf so I...”
– The WELL: Bruce Sterling and Jon Lebkowsky: State of the World 2012 (via new-aesthetic)
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From an interview with William Gibson
I like that in Zero History, Twitter is used as this covert communication device. How do you use Twitter? I follow less than 100 people. I use it to keep in touch daily with a few friends. The rest of it, for me, is just an incredibly powerful aggregator of novelty. I’ve chosen to follow people who are themselves keen and very active aggregators of novelty. And it all tends to present the highest...
Total Massacre →
Clip from Miike’s 13 ASSASSINS. The scene in which the scroll was created was fucking amazing in its terror.
December 2011
5 posts
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“The Spaniards in Florida called the Anglo-settlers “Quáqueros,” a...”
– Wikipedia
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November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
2 posts
September 2011
1 post
July 2011
8 posts
“In 1897 in Britain there was a match between a motorcycle and a bicycle, and...”
– The Perfect Vehicle
“Superficially, the world has become small and known. Poor little globe of earth,...”
– From “New Mexico,” by DH Lawrence
1928
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Collective Nouns
glaring of cats
parliament of owls
mischief of rats
crash of hippopotami
dissimulation
of
birds
“An American major said the Iraqis often stopped by their base to partake in...”
– NYTimes
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“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to...”
– Epicurius
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June 2011
10 posts
Hitman Monkey...
itstactical:
- Mike
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“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day...”
– Charles Caleb Colton
I need to teach myself to program so I can create something to shut down my Google Reader after five minutes of looking at Nonsense but leaves the tab open when reading Smart Things. Talk about a perilous mix of time-sink and brain-stimulator.
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
@karhof lets me know
i found out that “florida” is slang for “fucked” in brazil.
I wonder why that is.
May 2011
7 posts
THE GUN by C.J. Chivers: Soon on the NYT: Inside... →
The innovations are amazing & it’s good to hear about the situation on the ground.
cjchivers:
Have a glance at these pics. The first one, at top, is of a piece of henzab, an object that could be a symbol of the Libyan rebels’ battle to push the forces of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi out of Misurata. And here’s a laundry basket of them.
Would you like to drive your car over a patch...
April 2011
3 posts
March 2011
9 posts
