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It’s all about the here and now

August 20, 2007

The Long Now Foundation was set up to promote long term thinking. They’ve been up to all sorts, things like trying to document every language ever, making bets about the future and building myth-making 10,000 year clocks.
There’s some nifty stuff on their blog too.

mike, 000 years, 10, almighty, blogs, culture, information, movement, science. 1 Comments. .

Be Kind Rewind

August 13, 2007

Michele Gondry, Jack Black, Mos Def.

Barnaby, culture, film, fireworks. 0 Comments. .

Robert Breer, ‘69′

August 3, 2007


Barnaby, Ah!, O!, Wolf!, almighty, animation, art, clever, culture, death avoidance, fireworks, hot, noise, oh!, oooooooh!, peach, poetry, porn, rhyme, security, slow, the. 0 Comments. .

The genesis of the Pentagon

May 28, 2007

How the Pentagon got its shape (the American defence building, not the five-sided polygon)

ade, culture, design, war. 0 Comments. .

I ? Dali

May 16, 2007


henry, art, culture, video, youtube. 1 Comments. .

digg surrenders to mob

May 2, 2007

digg surrenders to mob - wow

pete, WTF, culture, digital media, information-revolution, internet, tech. 0 Comments. .

beer is good: fact

April 19, 2007

without beer, there would be no technology

pete, beer, culture, funny, links, stuff. 0 Comments. .

Hippies, new agers, scofflaws, consciousness expanders, dropouts, commies, beatniks and hairy 70s freaks

April 13, 2007

Amongst my geek obsessions, one that’s never far from the surface is the fascination I have with pre-internet digital culture; that is, the kids, hippies and assorted weirdos who were using computers to do interesting things before doing interesting things with computers became a given. From the 70s to the early 90s, there was a [...]

henry, bit pretentious, culture, geekery, sexndrugsnrocnknroll, tech. 2 Comments. .