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.
