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Winston Smith, Libertarian, takes a shower.
Man bites off own penis. From the comments: “He bit the dick that fed him.”
Al Capone’s Jail Cell
Reading and Publishing in the Late age of Print.
A new firefox plug-in to replace all instances of the word “crisis” with “opportunity” on all the websites you visit.
vbs.tv: Pakistani Arms Markets
VBS, tongue in cheek, has a series of “guides to travel”, video newsreels of unpleasant regions around the world. They don’t have any pretensions to unbiased coverage, and as such they get better access and more entertaining footage than the typical outlets. VBS’s typical video definitely affords a glimpse of where journalism is going in [...]
parkour
I don’t know enough about the ‘Parkour’ phenomenon to say what sort of French cultural memes it taps into. Aesthetically, it combines several interesting pop-culture themes to form a chiefly subversive ideology: these videos are propagated and spread on sharing websites where ownership and identity is indeterminate. At its essence, the idea of Parkour is [...]
It is tempting to see a letter from a man who pitches himself against the world as a zeitgeist of its time. This man’s hastily-capitalized shorthand and grammatically-opaque prose seem to reflect the pressures, stimulation, advances, obsessions, and vanities of our era. the death note as cartouche.
Visualizing Science
Information visualization is one of the buzzwords of 2009 and is definitely on the list of things I knew how to do better (with cooking, tennis, speaking french).
The “Map of Science”, developed by a team of researchers lead by Johan Bollen at the Los Alamos National Labs in my glorious home state New Mexico, [...]
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