January 2010
69 posts
“like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing...”
– one ethnobotanist’s description of the experience of taking ayahuasca (Wade Davis: The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World - The Long Now)
Title-ish track from Final Fantasy’s new...
WatchJudesays’ video of Dragging an Ox playing Snowbank Melody at PDX Pop Now 2007 (checkout his awesome candle-based noise generator that he’s fidgeting with at the beginning)
“It’s hard to say whether Ballard has actually contributed anything — perhaps a...”
– Geoff Manaugh, Ballardian: The Politics of Enthusiasm
“There are situations that are easy to dramatize, or that are
romantically...”
– Bruce Sterling, The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010
“The path of technical development required to create a brain-downloading device...”
– Bruce Sterling (on one of many reasons why there will never be machine-resident human intelligence) The WELL: Bruce Sterling: State of the World 2010