February 2009
106 posts
Jonathan Coulton - The Future Soon (via...
number of horns on a unicorn →
“Lange also, bevor das Internet jedem diese Lehre erteilte, musste ich...”
– Der schlimmste Job, den ich je hatte | Spreeblick
Amen.
Everything is amazing - and nobody’s happy.
“Dimmi, dimmi se mai fu fatta cosa alcuna.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
“All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.”
– Not me (via dktoday)
I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THEATER →
I love you, internet.
Media-Morphosis: How the Internet Will Devour,... →
Interesting piece by Doctorow. However I cannot avoid thinking his “where do we go from here” strategies are short-changed at best.
Looking at a future where intellectual property becomes worthless and manual labor and services become automated and robotized - shouldn’t we rather think about a means of living and creating other than our current “selling and buying...
“It’s because I have no choice. And I think a true artist should always...”
– Philippe Petit, about why he does what he does
FRONTLINE: inside the meltdown: watch the full... →
“Watchmensch - written by comic industry rumormonger Rich Johnston and drawn by...”
– Watchmensch: Your First Look At Watchmensch
Regarding that TPB trial
Could we please fucking stop kidding ourselves? On both sides of the court room?
Copyright holders: TPB is a medium, even if you win it will take a few weeks max for alternate distribution channels to form. Welcome to the internet. And downloads don’t equal monetary losses. If they do, IFPI owes me $349.300 just for last week’s software downloads on TPB.
TPB fans: The bay is used to...
Command-line Fu < The best UNIX commands on the... →
For those of you with weak fu. (via jkohl)
“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not...”
– Clifford Stoll (via randominternet)
Savant for a Day →
While I drew, Snyder continued his lecture. ”You could call this a creativity-amplifying machine. It’s a way of altering our states of mind without taking drugs like mescaline. You can make people see the raw data of the world as it is. As it is actually represented in the unconscious mind of all of us.”
Article about Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.
“Du mußt das Leben nicht verstehen,
dann wird es werden wie ein Fest.
Und laß...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
NYT Article Skimmer →
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Mindfuck Movies
Looks like a very nice list (via). All of the ones I already saw were pretty great at least.
For my own reference:
To watch
Spellbound (1945)
Rashômon (1950)
Solyaris (1972)
Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
Dark City (1998)
Watched
La Jetée (1962)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Videodrome (1983)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
Abre los ojos (1997)
Cube (1997)
The Game (1997)
Memento (2000)
Mulholland...
