February 2012
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“Did they realize from the start that the Chelsea Marina protest was doomed to...”
– J.G Ballard, Millenium People, pre-figuring and satirizing OWS and Anonymous way back in 2004.
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January 2012
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“I realize there’s a narrative that America is all done, and doesn’t make stuff...”
– Warren Ellis, Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America | Motherboard
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10 meter dive dry-run (by GreenDot Project) This is what I spent this past Saturday doing. It’s for science. And the Olympics.
Jan 24th
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“There were more students in his course from Lithuania alone than there are...”
– Udacity and the future of online universities. After having 160,000 students in his free online course on AI, Stanford prof Sebastian Thrun resigned his tenured professorship to start a free online university. He’s hoping for 500,000 people in his first class.
Jan 23rd
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“To any informed contemporary child, a robot is simply a computer being carried...”
– William Gibson, “Googling the Cyborg”
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“If the dull substance of my flesh were thought, Injurious distance should not...”
– The only mention of “space” in Shakespeare, Shakespeare Sonnet 44. Courtesy of John Powers.
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“Providing a new approach for understanding the experience of things as things,...”
– Amazon description of Ian Bogost’s Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing
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“What’s Huckleberry Finn about? Hucklberry Finn is a novel which is about a...”
– Bruce Sterling, Closing the 2011 A+E Conference
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“So, so many of us know Photoshop. We know its flaws, its terribleness, and the...”
– Paul Ford, 0h30m w/Photoshop (Ftrain.com)
Jan 4th
“This is not the first time engineers have been given the challenge of packing...”
– Lights, Camera, Barbie? - NYTimes.com “an impeller-pump” with “glitterized fluid”?!? First person to find a picture of this wins one Internet.
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December 2011
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DOT MATRIX REVOLUTION (by superbrothers)
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“For example, he has called for “a massive new program to build a permanent lunar...”
– David BrooksThe Gingrich Tragedy - NYTimes.com Unlike Brooks this makes me more excited for a Gingrich presidency. If we’re going to have boondoggles, let all our boondoggles be sufficiently sci-fi.
Dec 9th
“The next Steve Jobs will totally be a chick, because girls are No. 2—and...”
– Louis CK, The Next Steve Jobs Will Be A Chick | Fast Company
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Biomechanic Leg Visualization (from data in Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement by David A. Winter)
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