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February 10 2013, 5:28am | Comments
Twitter Links On Online 'Becoming' #Pizza
In the hot lava of social media flows the critical distance between performing and being a ‘somebody’, a subject type, seems to collapse, along…

November 20 2012, 7:13am | Comments
Wikipedia Wikipedia:Deleted articles with freaky titles - Wikipedia, the free… Strange titles are rarely added to Wikipedia under the guise of real encyclopedia articles. Occasionally Wikipedians lose their minds (especially on April Fool's Day) and if their posts…

November 14 2012, 4:52am | Comments
Twitter Links Google searches made by a 82 year old man = @oldmansearch : Existential twitter genius
Twitter, that endless and obscure runway of missives; the burden of proof that mankind is nearing the atonement of its vapidity and carelessness, has…

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
Twitter Links Scottish broadcasting fail
Very Impressive Scottish Radio Fail

February 27 2012, 9:05am | Comments
Twitter Links How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks, The Internet's Favorite Spambot
This is the story of Horse_ebooks, beloved online automaton, and how I tracked down its human master. Horse_ebooks is a Twitter spam bot originally…

February 26 2012, 9:21am | Comments
Twitter Links Lars von Trier: the interview
As a director, he’s been accused of sadism too, for putting his actresses and characters through the mill – Emily Watson in Breaking the…

February 25 2012, 2:20am | Comments
Twitter Links On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks
Horse_ebooks is having a moment. Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social…

January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments
Tumblr chemistry

November 30 2011, 5:33am | Comments
Tumblr Priorities

November 20 2011, 10:46am | Comments
Link The Artist is Present (a video game about…
Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes…

September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments
Tumblr The Astronaut Suicides

September 6 2011, 4:53am | Comments
Tumblr The Segway Looter

August 12 2011, 2:05am | Comments
Link How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying…
My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that…

July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments
Tumblr Gorilla suits

June 19 2011, 4:40am | Comments
Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space…

May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments
Link Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D
The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own…

May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments
Link Gif and Take: dump.fm
Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social…

March 2 2011, 3:05pm | Comments
Link All the greatest scenes where someone talks a…
Want to learn how to make a computer go foom just by talking to it? Here's a step-by-step tutorial from the master himself, Captain Kirk. And below, we've got every…

December 22 2010, 2:16pm | Comments
Link Art for animals
Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite…

November 27 2010, 6:44am | Comments
Flickr Do you like our owl?

September 30 2010, 2:26am | Comments
Link Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want…
One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into…

August 18 2010, 2:13am | Comments
Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't…

August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments
Link SAME HAT! (tumblr)
For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features…

August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments
Link Porn for the Blind
Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.

August 16 2010, 2:27am | Comments
Link The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the…

August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments
Link The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations
We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to…

August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments
Link The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could…
Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers…

June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments
Link My Famicase Exhibition 2010
With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The…

May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments
Link Jesus Is A Dick
This sort of acting out is typical behavior from somebody whose parents didn't give them enough attention growing up.

April 28 2010, 1:35am | Comments
Link Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori
It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to…

April 20 2010, 3:40pm | Comments
Link 'It's time to let you hear the song…
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.…

April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments
Portfolio hellograndad.com

April 7 2010, 8:27am | Comments
Flickr Nut Removed

March 9 2010, 4:13am | Comments
Flickr Special Man

January 11 2010, 10:59am | Comments
Link Sleep Talkin' Man
My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only…

January 9 2010, 6:24am | Comments
Flickr Acoustic Prosthesis

December 17 2009, 3:55pm | Comments
Flickr Fool's Christmas

December 11 2009, 5:00am | Comments
Flickr First Prize (as a side of bacon)

December 5 2009, 3:48am | Comments
Flickr not 100% effective

November 23 2009, 7:17am | Comments
Flickr A Batman Christmas

November 22 2009, 2:41am | Comments
Flickr wildlife photographer

November 20 2009, 3:46am | Comments
Flickr you can't afford to be skinny

November 10 2009, 12:53am | Comments
Link A Common Nomenclature for Lego Families
Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?”…

November 8 2009, 3:01am | Comments
Link Left vs Right | Information Is Beautiful
A concept-map exploring the Left vs Right political spectrum. A collaboration between David McCandless and information artist Stefanie Posavec, taken from my book The Visual Miscellaneum (out Nov 10th). Of…

October 21 2009, 3:28pm | Comments
Link 42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Dresden Codak's handy comic-chart of '42 Essential Third-Act Twists' for writers.

October 21 2009, 3:19pm | Comments
Flickr Let's say you've gone back in time

October 16 2009, 9:35am | Comments
Flickr TV Specs

October 16 2009, 3:13am | Comments
Link The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About…
Dr. Nielsen and Dr. Ninomiya have proposed a kind of test: that CERN engage in a game of chance, a “card-drawing” exercise using perhaps a random-number generator, in order to…

October 15 2009, 8:12am | Comments
Video

October 6 2009, 3:02am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Being in Japan and Elsewhere

September 6 2009, 9:05pm | Comments
Link If zombies actually existed
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried…

August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments

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