January 2011
38 posts
“It’s an offensively brilliant idea. Barcode Kanojo’s free iPhone app will scan...”
– Sexy Beans | Five Players (via iamdanw)
This is not a joke. You can scan a package of index cards, and if no-one has scanned that UPC first, you get to name a submissive anime girl, who will love you forever. Until some other obsessive nerd gives her more money.
This is the first time a spime has...
theremina:
“Sheol” by The Parlour Trick
Here’s...
Ben Hammersley's return to old-fashioned blogging:... →
hammersley:
I could not be more excited by this. Next month I’m presenting a series of lectures at the Royal Institution in Mayfair. On Thursday 10 February 2011, it’s Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino giving her Uncanny & lovable: The future of emotional robots. Then, the following Wednesday 16 February, …
"Robots, man. They're nothing but heartbreak.... →
hammersley:
Fantastic Metafilter comment. I really want a Roomba - but bloody hell they’re expensive - but I know I’d name it. Sigh.
“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
– Lord Byron (via rossignol)
Not by the Direct Method.: Tiwanaku, the... →
jessnevins:
in 1000 A.D.
Not heard of it? It was on the shores of Lake Titicaca. “Less a centralized state than a clutch of municipalities under the common religio-cultural sway of the center,” Tiwanaku (founded around 800 B.C.E.)
took advantage of the extreme ecological differences among the Pacific…
“— July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are...”
– Eighteen examples of right-wing domestic terrorism detailed by freelance journalist and author David Neiwert (via Digby)
I remember many of these. But of course each one happened in its own convenient vacuum. No need for society to turn a critical eye to itself, no siree.
(via tenderstatue)
Not by the Direct Method.: Well, this sort of... →
jessnevins:
And who knows when this information might come in handy?
Nineteenth-century accounts shed light on how the castration procedure was undertaken in China where total castration was the norm and the “eunuch-maker” was a special occupation. In preparation for surgery, the patient’s abdomen and…
Hmm.
jessnevins:
“….asocial black magic provides a graduated scale by which the latent aggressivity of a society may be measured….”
“I don’t think anyone could write a completely honest autobiography. I am sure no...”
– William Burroughs (via rossignol)
The New York Five - all the covers
brianwood:
Drawn by the incomparable Ryan Kelly, with color + design by me.
