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• Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant

  The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

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• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

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• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

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  Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

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• Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Cafe Oto - DAMO SUZUKI + STANDARD PLANETS

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• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe

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• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

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• Bibliography Friday by Michel Tournier

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• Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination

  When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

  July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

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  "If living beings disturb the order of the world, then this literally means that living beings are primarily turbulence." - Michel Serres

  July 7 2011, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'

  Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

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• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

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• Tumblr Win Sector

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• foursquare checkin @ Barbican Art Gallery - Watch Me Move: The Animation Show

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• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  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 began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Lamed Wufniks are, without knowing it, the secret pillars of the universe. Were it not for them God would annihilate the whole of mankind."

  July 5 2011, 4:08am | Comments

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  Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

  July 5 2011, 12:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Pitchfork Interviews: Björk

  Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything…

  July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Heaven for Atheists

  It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

  July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Tumblr City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source...

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• YouTube

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• Bookmark Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…

  In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

  July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark A Home Before the End of the World

  Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving as…

  June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Twitter

  You wouldn’t spoil that stain with satin, would you? Just rinse and pat dry. Just dot it on.

  June 29 2011, 7:38am | Comments

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• Bookmark Animated GIFs Triumphant

  The facts about animated GIFs are stark. They only support a palette of 256 colors. No current browser lists support for animated GIF as a codec for the HTML5 <video> tag.…

  July 12 2011, 7:41am | Comments

• Tumblr Ubik: Philip K. Dick

  July 12 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Bookmark The Neolithic Age is over!

  Michel Serres: We are in the middle of an extraordinary human and environmental transformation, without really being aware of it, one that can only perhaps be compared with the Renaissance, the…

  July 12 2011, 1:36am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Two decades of the web: a utopia no longer

  July 11 2011, 11:47am | Comments

• Bookmark The Pathology of Collecting

  What I’ve learned, the hard way, is that the one thing you must never ask a collector is “why?” It’ll get you nowhere. They’ll just stare at you in baffled amazement…

  July 11 2011, 4:54am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Cafe Oto - DAMO SUZUKI + STANDARD PLANETS

  July 8 2011, 3:00pm | Comments

• Bibliography Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Popular Classics) by Daniel Defoe

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bibliography On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection by Susan Stewart

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bibliography Friday by Michel Tournier

  July 8 2011, 7:36am | Comments

• Bookmark Off-putting behaviour: On Writing and Procrastination

  When I began writing, distractions were all low-tech. I had to worry about typewriter ribbons and correction fluid, for God's sake. There was no possibility of spending an apparently productive day…

  July 8 2011, 1:52am | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics

  “Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this is nothing. It is calculably nothing.…

  July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Clinamen Clinamen is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs "at no fixed place or time": When atoms move straight down through the void by their own…

  July 7 2011, 11:15am | Comments

• Twitter

  "If living beings disturb the order of the world, then this literally means that living beings are primarily turbulence." - Michel Serres

  July 7 2011, 7:08am | Comments

• Bookmark Michel Serres on the word 'human'

  Son of a barge man, Michel Serres joined the Ecole Navale in 1949 and the Ecole Normale supérieure in 1952 where he obtained the aggregation of philosophy in 1955. From 1956…

  July 6 2011, 3:15pm | Comments

• YouTube

  July 6 2011, 3:01pm | Comments

• Bookmark #Don't Follow Twitter Art

  Twitter art bums me out. Fine, it’s a new medium that we don’t know what to do with yet, but it's receiving a growing amount of attention and most of it…

  July 6 2011, 9:23am | Comments

• Tumblr Win Sector

  July 6 2011, 8:40am | Comments

• foursquare checkin @ Barbican Art Gallery - Watch Me Move: The Animation Show

  July 6 2011, 5:52am | Comments

• Bookmark Friday, by Michel Tournier

  French writer, who gained fame at the age of forty-three with his first novel, Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique (1967, Friday; or, The Other Island), an ingenious reworking of the…

  July 5 2011, 9:36am | Comments

• Bookmark How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying to be so respectable

  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 began…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Bookmark 'Err' by artist Jeremy Hutchison

  For his new project, Err, artist Jeremy Hutchison contacted various factories around the world, and asked if one of their workers would produce an 'incorrect' version of the product they make…

  July 5 2011, 9:25am | Comments

• Twitter

  "Lamed Wufniks are, without knowing it, the secret pillars of the universe. Were it not for them God would annihilate the whole of mankind."

  July 5 2011, 4:08am | Comments

• Twitter Favourites

  Your Computer Really Is a Part of You

  July 5 2011, 12:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Pitchfork Interviews: Björk

  Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything…

  July 4 2011, 12:02pm | Comments

• Tumblr (Quote) Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  “All things would be visibly connected if one could discover at a single glance and in its totality the tracings of an Ariadne’s thread leading thought into its own labyrinth.” - Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

  July 4 2011, 11:02am | Comments

• Bookmark Heaven for Atheists

  It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

  July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments

• Tumblr Another kind of logic

  July 4 2011, 8:51am | Comments

• Tumblr City Pulse un-gif-dans-ta-gueule: NYC - Time Lapse Source...

  July 2 2011, 7:39am | Comments

• YouTube

  July 2 2011, 6:41am | Comments

• Bookmark Why we must remember to delete - and forget - in the…

  In Delete, Mayer-Schönberger traces the history of such external memories – cave paintings, scrolls, photographic slides, diaries – and their importance to the flourishing of human knowledge. "Since the early days…

  July 1 2011, 3:46am | Comments

• Bookmark A Home Before the End of the World

  Our ignorance is truly staggering. According to some estimates, 95 percent of organisms in the soil alone are unknown to science. Many of them labor unseen, in the dark, serving as…

  June 29 2011, 4:11pm | Comments

• Twitter

  You wouldn’t spoil that stain with satin, would you? Just rinse and pat dry. Just dot it on.

  June 29 2011, 7:38am | Comments

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