MachineMachine /stream - tagged with love https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[The Little Death: Living and Loving as a Necrophiliac | VICE | United Kingdom]]> http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-little-death-living-and-loving-as-a-necrophiliac-511

Hayden (not his real name, for reasons that will become obvious) is 18 years old and he will never forget the moment when he first realized he was a necrophile. He was 14 years old at the funeral of a girl who had been a close friend—it was the first time he had come in contact with a corpse.

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Sat, 07 Nov 2015 09:06:42 -0800 http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/the-little-death-living-and-loving-as-a-necrophiliac-511
<![CDATA[Flesh Love]]> http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/48793383809

Flesh Love

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Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:01:26 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/48793383809
<![CDATA[Ultra Slow Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush (36 minutes slow, you have been warned!)]]> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXhtJ9BTJA&feature=youtube_gdata

By request...the ultra-slow version of Wuthering Heights (created by "Looking At Blue" from the KateBushNewsandInformation forum), now accompanied by Kate's 1978 video for the song, also slowed to a crawl. The song really starts at 00:40, but I included the slowed-down chimes which now sound like scary-ass church bells. Creepy, innit?

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Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:18:57 -0800 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsXhtJ9BTJA&feature=youtube_gdata
<![CDATA[Female Orgasm: An Evolutionary Journey]]> http://bigthink.com/ideas/40123

Dr. Elisabeth A. Lloyd, among others, has described female orgasm as the female equivalent to male nipples, anatomy that one sex needed, while the other sex "just sort of lucked out with some lingering leftovers."

Ryan rejects this view. "When a woman has an orgasm," he explains, "the pH of her reproductive tract shifts in a way that favors sperm that enter her at that point." Why is this so important? Sperm competition. In prehistoric times, according to Ryan, women had "multiple lovers at any given ovulatory cycle, even in any given sexual event."

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:21:12 -0800 http://bigthink.com/ideas/40123
<![CDATA[chemistry]]> http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13544718628

chemistry

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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:33:00 -0800 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/13544718628
<![CDATA[F**k Statistics]]> http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/107011

Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations:

  • Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores
  • Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today
  • Christians and Atheists are just as likely to claim they have never masturbated
  • The correlation between men who prefer gentle sex & use of the word 'boating'

I f**king love statistics

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Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:05:11 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/107011
<![CDATA[Death Is Not the End (Long Live theory!)]]> http://nplusonemag.com/death-not-end

Was theory a gigantic hoax? On the contrary. It was the only salvation, for a twenty year period, from two colossal abdications by American thinkers and writers. From about 1975 to 1995, through a historical accident, a lot of American thinking and mental living got done by people who were French, and by young Americans who followed the French.

The two grand abdications: one occurred in academic philosophy departments, the other in American fiction. In philosophy, from the 1930s on, a revolutionary group had been fighting inside universities to overcome the “tradition.” This insurgency, at first called “logical positivism” or “logical empiricism,” then simply “analytic philosophy,” was the best thing going. The original idea was that logical analysis of language would show which philosophical problems might be solved, and which eradicated because they were not phraseable in clear, logical language.

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:48:43 -0700 http://nplusonemag.com/death-not-end
<![CDATA[Technology Provides an Alternative to Love]]> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29franzen.html

Let me toss out the idea that, as our markets discover and respond to what consumers most want, our technology has become extremely adept at creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly, and makes us feel all powerful, and doesn’t throw terrible scenes when it’s replaced by an even sexier object and is consigned to a drawer. To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

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Mon, 30 May 2011 02:03:04 -0700 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/opinion/29franzen.html
<![CDATA[Welcome to “La Isla de Felicidad,” please enjoy our spectacular muck spa, just walk in and relax.]]> https://www.flickr.com/photos/49260346@N04/4908463001/

Aldabra Tortoise (Geochelone Gigantea)

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Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:01:39 -0700 https://www.flickr.com/photos/49260346@N04/4908463001/
<![CDATA[Gensensambo and Horse]]> https://www.flickr.com/photos/neilspicys/4884167873/

The Horses are essential "Wild" and roam freely, until a man needs a ride. Then its ridden for a couple of days, then released again to rejoin its friends on the grasslands. I stayed with this boys family for a week in the countryside. Helping out with the Sheep, goats, horses and camels, Unfortunately, I've lost most of the pictures from this week with a most hospitable family. They taught me how to ride horses, make clotted cream and kill sheep bloodlessly.

neilsrtw.blogspot.com/

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Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:29:15 -0700 https://www.flickr.com/photos/neilspicys/4884167873/
<![CDATA['It's time to let you hear the song which earned me a juvenile restraining order']]> http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/apr/07/andrew-wk-juvenile-restraining-order

Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why.

I've never let anyone hear this song before. I'm deeply humiliated and embarrassed at the thought of anyone hearing it. This is probably the most intense and personal song I've ever recorded – it's called My Destiny and it was written and recorded when I was 17. I shouldn't do this.

I was in high school in the 1990s, in a town called Ann Arbor in Michigan. I had a crush on a girl and was deeply and passionately fixated on her. She had a baby face, a 14-tooth smile, large eyes, a crowned forehead, an oversized brow and a tender style. She consumed me with both lust and hatred – lust, because I was truly drawn to her beauty and soft skin, and hatred because she rarely spoke to me, wouldn't look at me much and never gave me a chance to show her my deep affections. I used to call her house just to listen to her say, "Hello?" Then I'd hang

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Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:34:00 -0700 http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/apr/07/andrew-wk-juvenile-restraining-order
<![CDATA[Troubling new revelations about Arendt and Heidegger]]> http://www.slate.com/id/2234010/

Will we ever be able to think of Hannah Arendt in the same way again? Two new and damning critiques, one of Arendt and one of her longtime Nazi-sycophant lover, the philosopher Martin Heidegger, were published within 10 days of each other last month. The pieces cast further doubt on the overinflated, underexamined reputations of both figures and shed new light on their intellectually toxic relationship. Print This ArticlePRINTDiscuss in the FrayDISCUSSEmail to a FriendE-MAILGet Slate RSS FeedsRSSShare This ArticleRECOMMEND...Single PageSINGLE PAGE Yahoo! BuzzFacebook FacebookPost to MySpace!MySpaceMixx MixxDigg DiggReddit RedditDel.icio.us del.icio.usFurl FurlMa.gnolia.com Ma.gnoliaSphere SphereStumble UponStumbleUponCLOSE

My hope is that these revelations will encourage a further discrediting of the most overused, misused, abused pseudo-intellectual phrase in our language: the banality of evil. The banality of the banality of evil, the fatuousness of it, has long been fathomless, but

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Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:20:00 -0700 http://www.slate.com/id/2234010/
<![CDATA[Gizmo]]> https://www.flickr.com/photos/todorrovic/2287792473/

Gizmo II here

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Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:18:54 -0800 https://www.flickr.com/photos/todorrovic/2287792473/