January 2012
20 posts
“Noted scientist Leslie Orgel’s famous ‘second rule’ that...”
– The Unsung Intelligence of Life’s Web | Reality Sandwich
By now, it is probably very obvious that I’m a big fan of Simon G. Powell.
“Google is the first psychedelically informed superpower to shape the noosphere...”
– Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness | Reality Sandwich
I’m not a big fan of heights, but the kick one must get out of a base jump must be quite something.
“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me,...”
– CHUCK CLOSE [quote lifted from: thepacegallery / jonathanwinstone] (via 7knotwind)
“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into...”
– The Pirate Bay - Evolution: New Category (via bashford)
“Yet surely having something wrapped right around your mind is different from...”
– How the Internet Gets Inside Us : The New Yorker
“Metaphors are useful, as they enable the thin skein of connectivity between...”
– Dan Hill, cityofsound: Journal: Of brains and cities; neuroscience and cultures of decision-making
SYMMETRY / THEMES FOR AN IMAGINARY FILM by JOHNNY JEWEL
(via @torstenbergler)
“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to...”
– R. D. Laing
“Is serendipity just the playing out on the human level of the same emerging,...”
– Simon G. Powell, To understand is to perceive patterns
“Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality.”
– – Mark Weiser, 1998
s/virtual reality/augmented reality
History of the Internet of Things | Postscapes
“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge...”
– –Nikola Tesla, 1926
(via History of the Internet of Things | Postscapes)
“I almost believe there is no New York; there is only a set of projections, and...”
– I do love New York too. And this article is again one of those that makes me want to pack my bag and just go. Especially, because I was reading it while being at an airport.
New York How to Be a New Yorker - Village Voice
“Do you believe there has been an evolution of consciousness?”
– The question in itself is an expression of our zeitgeist. It is not inappropriate or displaced. In fact, it is an important question to ask these days.
Dazed Digital | Paul Mason: Why It’s All Kicking Off
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Nature.”
– – Karl Schroeder, The Deepening Paradox
Through Bruce, of course. With a big pointer to @plugimi’s work, which is good, ‘cause I wanted to talk to him anyway.
WatchRussia. Hopefully, all of this is note completely futile.
24 декабря на Сахарова (by Evgeny Arkhipov)
December 2011
10 posts
“But we’ll suggest an alternative explanation: that Bitcoin is not so much...”
– Bitcoin’s comeback: should Western Union be afraid?
There’s life in the old dog yet.
In the recent month, many and more reports emerged that proclaimed the death of Bitcoin. While the currency lost 90% of it’s value over the course of only 5 month, it seems to have stabilized...
One has to wonder what it means, when two men like Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-il die at the same time. One fought for freedom, peace and unity while the other tried to achieve the opposite.
WatchBon Iver - Skinny Love - Une Soiree de Poche (by La Blogotheque)
“Scientia means “knowledge:” science, it seems to me, is not about facts; it is...”
– The science of poetry, the poetry of science | Books | The Guardian (via myserendipities)
“The Internet isn’t really a technology, it’s a belief system - a...”
– - Joi Ito
We would do good to remember this more often instead of taking it all for granted. Many people worked hard to ensure that the internet stays open, free and accessible to everyone. Recently, many companies and governments are trying to crack down on the internet. But the internet just...
“Work. Work. Work. Every day. At the same time every day. For as long as you can...”
– –Barry Moser (via Kai Müller)
November 2011
5 posts
“The future always arrives to fast and in the wrong order.”
– Alvin Toffler (via altnytterfarlig)
WatchThe Detroit-Berlin Connection. (by WDET)
“And here’s another one: we’re not going to be living in a world of analogue ‘out...”
– russell davies: again with the post digital
“My home is a 600 square foot rectangle armed with an iMac, a handful of X-10...”
– An interview with Amber Case (HT @jkleske)
October 2011
21 posts
WatchUndercover x Nike film
The Irrepressibles - In This Shirt (Röyksopp Remix)
Severant by Kuedo
“No Martin Luther King, Jr. will emerge from the occupations of Wall Street and...”
– Occupy Wall Street as a fight for “real democracy” – Global Public Square - CNN.com Blogs
AUTHOR LIVE @ EIGER STUDIOS by J.Sparrow (dubstep)
(via @tobybarnes)
“They are saying we are all losers, but the true losers are down there on Wall...”
– Slavoj Žižek speaks at Occupy Wall Street
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to...”
– – Abraham Lincoln
5 tags
ISAM Sampler (mixed by King Cannibal) by Amon Tobin
“As one people, united, we acknowledge the reality: that the future of the human...”
– Official statement from the Occupy Wall Street movement
