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(The Spice)
In my version, the spice is a blue drug with spongy consistency filled with a vegetable-animal life endowed with consciousness, the highest level of consciousness. It does not stop taking all kinds of forms, while stirring up unceasingly. The spice continuously produces the creation of the innumerable universes. ... more »
In December 1974, a French consortium led by Jean-Paul Gibon purchased the film rights to Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science fiction novel Dune and asked Jodorowsky to direct a film version. Agreeing, he planned to cast the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí as the Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV, who requested a ...
read more »The Man Who Lived On His Bike
The Edge Of The World
Buzz Aldrin above Earth, Gemini XIIThe immediate context is human. The background is the earth set against space. There are more impressive acts of pure science, and pure astronomy. There are many that are captivating: for instance, images from Cassini. There have been, recently, whole earth high-resolution shots. Famously, the blue marble, Sagan's "pale blue dot", a photo of Earth by Voyager 1.
What these other famous images lack however is the obvious display of human scale. Here, Buzz Aldrin, front and center. The relationship of his position, a man 261 kilometers above Mount Everest, a man embedded in technology. Like previous explorers, like ... read more »Prof. Welton's Boxing Cats
Nothing really changes.Rogue Websites
Treasure Island, 1934If their legal arm gets out of control? This is an industry that demands payment from summer camps if the kids sing Happy Birthday or God Bless America, an industry that issues takedown notices for a 29-second home movie of a toddler dancing to Prince. Traditional American media firms are implacably opposed to any increase in citizens’ ability to create, copy, save, alter, or share media on our own. They fought against cassette audio tapes, and photocopiers. They swore the VCR would destroy Hollywood. They tried to kill Tivo. They tried to kill MiniDisc. They tried to kill player pianos ...
read more »No-one has ever lived in the past
Acme Physics
... in 1990, he came across articles written by David Hestenes, a physicist at Arizona State. Hestenes got the idea for the series when a colleague came to him with a problem. The students in his introductory physics courses were not doing well: Semester after semester, the class average never got above about 40 percent. "I noted that the reason for that was that his examination questions were mostly qualitative, requiring understanding of the concepts rather than just calculational, using formulas, which is what most of the instructors did," Hestenes says. Hestenes had a suspicion students were just memorizing the formulas ...
read more »You left the bodies but you only moved the headstones! You only moved the headstones!
via the always great @paleofuture
Interesting that, again, like lots of late 80s to late 90s concept pieces they were able to see the logical extension of several concepts but missed the big one: ever-present networks. Until recently there was this weird idea with news (particularly print based news people) that we'd need "kiosks" and removable media for this glorious future of reading.Public Service Announcement
Cave Of The Book
Guy LarameeCarved Book Landscapes by Guy Laramee via @cmenscher, love these.
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The original nomadic inhabitants of Cbyx rode Modar from one oasis to the next, beasts captured and trained as cubs. The riders developed an extremely close relationship with the animals, the bond was carried over by legendists as ancient, noble, spiritual. While horses, as large as they were in the north, were not Modar. What were written as saintly men and women of Cbyx nature, quitely and stoically enduring, became Northern horsemen, cantankerous, drunken, combative, wild. And they in turn became fable for teleplays, books, programs. Their iconography graced everything having to do with the North. Of great fascination, and State disapproval was the brief war between the horsemen and the expanding industry of the previous century. The purposing of horses for labor was anathema to the tradition of the Cbyx riders, enough so that the horsemen, who rarely organized, did so enough to cause twenty years of havok for any State loving midlander who happened into their hills.
Feb 18 4:40 a.m.
Brynja took a streetcar. She was entitled to her own automobile, but disliked the quiet resentment that the privilege caused. The streetcars here were old style, electric, clattering. She found them comforting. She wondered about a world where everyone would be allowed an auotmobile, the chaos and inefficiency. She rode with other citizens, the cold night causing them to have bundled up, warming their hands on cups of tea sold at the back. A radio next to the driver relentlessly broadcast static peppered State news.
Feb 13 3:43 a.m.
524F474552 moved carefully around the crater. It had taken days. Before the uplink was removed he’d have had telemetry. Now all robots simply talked to one another. Many had no audio, so a system of semaphore was worked out. Some used lights, some used moving parts. As he rounded a small hill he saw, in the distance, another unit. The other unit acknowledged him by raising an arm. Then it raised another. And another. Its arms began to move directionally, independently. A message. 524F474552 focused attention. “B … E … W … A … R … E”. Well, he thought, that was intriguing.
Feb 06 4:13 p.m.
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Letters from a Stoic: Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium
To have someone to be able to die for, someone I may follow into exile, someone for whose life I may put myself up as security and pay the price as well. The thing you describe is not friendship but a business deal, looking to the likely consequences, with advantage as its goal.
Here one may recall Jane Jacobs's important distinction between visual orderliness on one hand and functional working order on the other. The city desk of a newspaper, a rabbit's intestines, or the interior of an aircraft engine may certainly look messy, but each one reflects, sometimes brilliantly, an order related to the function it performs.
Introduction -- Eloquent JavaScript
JavaScript is the language that is, at the moment, mostly being used to do all kinds of clever and horrible things with pages on the World Wide Web.
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Krautrock - The Rebirth Of Germany Feb 22 9:25 a.m.
"This Is My Home" - Unique Dwelling In East Village Feb 21 10:38 a.m.
Financial Globalization, Inequality, And The Raising Of Public Debt Feb 21 8:44 a.m.
Ptak Science Books: History of Holes series: Holes in Airships (1919 and 1937) Feb 21 4:22 a.m.
Icelandic Anger Brings Debt Forgiveness Feb 20 11:49 a.m.
