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The virtual bleeds into the real

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:34:12 +0000

Wireframe Subaru Impreza on the streets of London

Steampunk magazine

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:17:41 +0000

Before the age of homogenization, before the domestication of electricity, lived beautiful, monstrous machines that lived and breathed and exploded unexpectedly at inconvenient moments.

Writers' rooms: JG Ballard

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:11:20 +0000

See the rooms of other contemporary authors here. [Guardian]

Thirteen to Centaurus

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:05:42 +0000

A BBC adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story of that name. Watch the film and read the critique.

The cortex can still beat the CPU

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:04:01 +0000

Human Computation: the art of using massive groups of networked human minds to solve problems that computers cannot. [wired]

Walt Disney

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:02:52 +0000

Was he an artist or entrepreneur?

Judo: History, Theory, Practice

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:54:42 +0000

Russian president Vladimir Putin wrote it with a couple of buddies during the euphoric period that followed his re-election in 2004. But does his approach to martial arts offer any insight on his political strategy? [London Review of Books]

Reverse engineering the BigTrak

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:51:40 +0000

Advanced CDT project for children of the 1980s

The Bunnies Theatre Library

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:45:45 +0000

... in which a troupe of bunnies parodies a collection of movies by re-enacting them in 30 seconds, more or less.

Human guinea pigs wanted for expedition to Mars

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:37:43 +0000

Starting in spring 2008, a crew of six will be sent on a 500 day simulated mission to Mars. In reality the crew will remain in a special isolation facility in Russia to investigate the psychological and medical aspects of a long-duration mission.

Kurt Vonnegut dies

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 22:41:42 +0000

Kurt Vonnegut was a science fiction novelist who emerged as one of America’s greatest literary satirists and a guru of the counterculture during the 1970s; his best-known book, Slaughterhouse-Five, based on the Allied bombing of Dresden, became an anti-war classic ranked with Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.

Spell with Flickr

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:12:32 +0000

Spell your name in photos! Click on individual letters until you get a combination you like.

iDump

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:04:33 +0000

iDump is a small utility program that allows you to easily transfer songs from your (or someone else's) iPod to your PC.

Feet on the ground, head in the stars

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:56:43 +0000

The Telegraph interviews Patrick Moore, astronomer and presenter of The Sky at Night, the longest-running television series on the planet.

外国人恐怖症の深刻化？

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:31:25 +0000

The Guardian reports on growing xenophobia (外国人嫌悪主義) in Japan, highlighting the publication of Gaijin Hanzai Ura Fairu, a magazine devoted to the perceived growth in criminal activity by foreigners, which is on sale in mainstream bookshops nationwide.