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A Perfect Brick A Perfect Day
Your Totalitarian Regime Is Adorable
Cameras are everywhere. There's probably, if not one in your hand right now, one in your pocket. There's likely one above you now, if you're anywhere public. We've become used to this. Even if you aren't posing for a photo, you may be aware that you'll be posing for one soon. People maintain a camera face. The look forward, prepared, maybe with a gesture or expression they've practiced, even if they don't acknowledge it as practiced. You can see this look, the camera glare, in avatars, in Facebook photos. Even if you ... read more »gallery
Three Point Landing In Meme Country
(Editing by Duncan Robson. Music by Joel Robson. http://joelrobson.bandcamp.com/track/three-point-landinghttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThreePointLanding)
Some look at memes, remixes and the constant stream of web culture and dismiss it. Just a cat that wants a cheezburger. Just Scumbag Steve or Tron Guy or Me Gusta. But there's more under the surface. ROFLCon peeled this back and showed the common behind meme-making, the habitual remixer, the socially awkward penguin. The background is the same expressive subversive impulses we've always seen in human culture, naturally taking shape in the latest technology, mutating ...read more »Goodbye Frontier Towns
"Dodge boomed with a roar that split the nation’s ears and still echoes in her memory."Database normalization ties relationships together across tables so that there's no redundancy, allows those relationships to be updated consistently in the fewest places. Your identity online is becoming normalized through tech and convention.
At one time (long ago) it was peculiar, perhaps anathema, to use your "real name" online. You used a handle. The idea there would exist a normalized relationship between that handle and other records, and that these relationships had any reflection of the real world (discarded term: meat space) was thought of as dystopian, creepy. This is no longer the case.
Handles in a sense still ... read more »All money is a matter of belief
Aegir HallmundurWhen creating, or even looking at, a banknote design, one of the first things you realise is their inherent and very deliberate imperfections. There’ll be an apparent mis-registration of colour, a strangely ragged line, a discontinuity in a pattern or an odd serif or ligature on a piece of lettering, but it’s exactly how it was designed. Without it, it wouldn’t be right. The design of banknotes represent something I find gloriously poetic — imperfect perfection — if it was perfect by our usual standards, it would be imperfect. Wonderful. ... more »
Banknote patterns fascinate me. I can get lost ...
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As enthusiastic as the US hurls probes at Mars to crawl the deserts, scratching around for a hint of water and life, the Soviets propelled craft after craft at Venus, hoping for some demystification. They were tenacious.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union no one has attempted to put a lander on Venus. Why? Doesn't Venus deserve as much love as Mars? Perhaps. The goals were legendary, anthropomorphic. The Soviets very soon found a completely hostile place. Finding life on Venus, assuming this is always a thinly veiled goal of any interplanetary mission, is fantastically unlikely. But Venus ... read more »gallery
If People Never Did Silly Things Nothing Intelligent Would Ever Get Done
I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.
White Savior Self Destruct
Hulk Hogan collapses into a quantum singularity. Fabric of space is torn to reveal a portal to preindustrial earth.@benbenjidr
The exposed sinew of George Clooney, beneath skin held open by hooks of iron, milked for muscle-tears@dadflannels
GEORGE ORWELL REREADS "KILLING AN ELEPHANT," ASKS FORGIVENESS FROM BURMESE PEOPLE. THEY KILL HIM, WITH AN ELEPHANT.@DISTACTION
disguised as a clown, morrissey disembowels himself during a child's birthday party at mcdonald's@junkview
A naked and self-flagellated Bono tears out his own heart and offers it as tribute to the Sun God@mana_horse
Ira Glass spins lazily, ejecting sheets of ...
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