December 2009
30 posts
“I don’t know about TED actually – it seems like people get up and say all sorts...”
– Printable People Parts | GENOMICON
Watchdalasverdugo:
3D wireframe…virtual..sound..thing. Incredible. Especially the very end. Via Richard Devine who you should really follow on Twitter for a constant stream of cool stuff like this.
Books I Read This Year
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
The Steel Remains by Richard K. Morgan
Makers by Cory Doctorow
Racing the Beam by Nick Montfort
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson (reread)
The Fiend in Human by John MacLachlan Gray
The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson
The Pixar Touch by David A. Price
Infinite Jest by David...
List of science fiction novels - Wikipedia, the... →
Kinda hard to believe that Xenocide by Orson Scott Card is the only Sci-Fi novel that starts with ‘x’…
“All future PopTech attendees should be required to wear LED-lit,...”
– Bruce Sterling, Neri Oxman: Computationally Enabled Form Finding | Beyond The Beyond
“I see more and more of this lately: humanities scholars who somehow think they...”
– Bruce Sterling, The Humanities with Heavy Iron | Beyond The Beyond
WatchTom Gunning on Early Cinema
WatchMan in a Chicken suit plays “What is Love” on Pianica on Vimeo
WatchFree As In Beer: Cybernetic Science Fictions on Vimeo A paper delivered at the 2009 Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference by Jeremiah Axelrod and Greg Borenstein (that’s me!) that describes how British cyberneticist Stafford Beer’s writing, infographics, and industrial design for his ambitious Cybersyn Project worked together to create a science fictional...
“The novel inspired the 1984 song “Gravity’s Angel” by Laurie...”
– Gravity’s Rainbow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
