Daniel Rourke /stream

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Tumblr Hot Dog Homocide

  June 6 2012, 1:53am | Comments

• Tumblr The Edison hypnagogic

  May 8 2012, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Tumblr Leave Me Alone!

  January 17 2012, 4:18pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

• Tumblr December is here

  December 1 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Hitler foetus

  September 21 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  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 we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr You Can Shave the Baby

  August 14 2011, 4:15am | Comments

• Tumblr Best guess for this image: giant isopod

  August 3 2011, 1:28am | Comments

• Tumblr No

  August 2 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

  June 17 2011, 12:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 shoe…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Loneliest Whale in the World

  ...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52 Hertz,…

  February 25 2011, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Soul Niche

  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

  February 4 2011, 1:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Paramecium video games

  In a clever juxtaposition of biology and technology, Stanford physicist, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team are creating paramecia-based versions of classic video games that you can play by controlling the movements…

  January 20 2011, 4:16pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark What techniques do you use to make glitch art?

  What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

  October 12 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif

  2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

  October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Bookmark If the Earth Stood Still

  If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial megacontinent…

  August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 make…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 19 2010, 2:53am | Comments

Page: 1 2 3 4 5

• Twitter Favourites

  Time for Teletubbies: Radical Utopian Fiction

  September 8 2012, 6:05am | Comments

• Tumblr Hot Dog Homocide

  June 6 2012, 1:53am | Comments

• Tumblr The Edison hypnagogic

  May 8 2012, 4:22pm | Comments

• Bookmark At ROFLCon, watching memes go mainstream

  What is ROFLCon? It's a biennial convention (this year was its third) held to celebrate and discuss internet memes and the celebrity that is often created alongside them. This year's invited…

  May 8 2012, 2:17pm | Comments

• Bookmark Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

  In dealing with her mother’s home in Minneapolis, Ms. Sholl has spent much of her life alternating between feeling shame about its squalid condition and attempting to rid it of the…

  May 4 2012, 3:45am | Comments

• Bookmark The New Aesthetic Needs to Get Weirder

  A really new aesthetics might work differently: instead of concerning itself with the way we humans see our world differently when we begin to see it through and with computer media…

  April 18 2012, 9:33am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Behold Wesley Crusher: Teenage F*** Machine, the Amazon Kindle's new hottest book

  March 11 2012, 5:35am | Comments

• Tumblr Leave Me Alone!

  January 17 2012, 4:18pm | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  January 10 2012, 6:06am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  File Sharing Is Now an Official Religion In Sweden

  January 4 2012, 9:52am | Comments

• Tumblr December is here

  December 1 2011, 5:23am | Comments

• Bookmark Zombie Editions: An Archaeology of POD Areopagiticas

  This is a zombie edition, one of many I found for early modern texts on Amazon. Produced as cheap print-on-demand editions from EEBO or GoogleBook scans, they're listed alongside reputable scholarly…

  October 16 2011, 9:06am | Comments

• Tumblr Hitler foetus

  September 21 2011, 6:59am | Comments

• Bookmark The Artist is Present (a video game about waiting in line at…

  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 we…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr You Can Shave the Baby

  August 14 2011, 4:15am | Comments

• Tumblr Best guess for this image: giant isopod

  August 3 2011, 1:28am | Comments

• Tumblr No

  August 2 2011, 3:21am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Tumblr acecalhoun is worthy of a few jams for this one: “Lastly, and...

  June 17 2011, 12:36pm | Comments

• Bookmark A Medium for the Masses

  The word “meme” first appeared in Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book “The Selfish Gene.” Dawkins defined a meme as being any sort of idea that spreads from person to person within a…

  June 6 2011, 2:25am | Comments

• Tumblr Takeshi Murata: Get Your Ass To Mars

  May 6 2011, 2:36am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 shoe…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Bookmark The Loneliest Whale in the World

  ...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52 Hertz,…

  February 25 2011, 10:04am | Comments

• Bookmark The Soul Niche

  Neuroscientists have yet to find anything in the brain they are happy calling consciousness, and philosophers are far from agreement over a way of talking about what happens after we wake…

  February 4 2011, 1:59am | Comments

• Bookmark Paramecium video games

  In a clever juxtaposition of biology and technology, Stanford physicist, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team are creating paramecia-based versions of classic video games that you can play by controlling the movements…

  January 20 2011, 4:16pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Desert Bus Desert Bus is the best known trick minigame in the package, and was a featured part of Electronic Gaming Monthly's preview. The objective of the game is to drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada in real time at a…

  November 18 2010, 2:02pm | Comments

• Bookmark What techniques do you use to make glitch art?

  What are some techniques you use to make glitch art?

  October 12 2010, 3:35am | Comments

• Bookmark The Year of The Animated Gif

  2010 is the year of the animated gif. They are everywhere. Tumblr’s Three Frames, a site that posts only gifs drawn from movies on a daily basis is recommended to me…

  October 12 2010, 2:47am | Comments

• Bookmark If the Earth Stood Still

  If the earth stood still, the oceans would gradually migrate toward the poles and cause land in the equatorial region to emerge. This would eventually result in a huge equatorial megacontinent…

  August 16 2010, 2:51am | Comments

• Bookmark 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 make…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Tumblr Uranium Ore

  July 19 2010, 12:07pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 19 2010, 2:53am | Comments

Page: 1 2 3 4 5