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“what life seems like to obsessively bookish children”… Spot on. The first half of this book is amazing, but then veers into tedium, sadly.
links for 2008-01-18
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It’s a fansite for a fictional television show. That’s pretty sweet.
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A flash science fiction comic that will BLOW YOUR MIND!
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The best peanut butter in the world, eh? I’ll try it… If I can find it.
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Customizable, programmable modules that plug together
links for 2008-01-17
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Marvel Superheroes in Art!
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A woman dresses herself up in bridal outfits from many cultures, takes photos. Wild.
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Print on demand for public domain books. Pretty clever mashup of online services to result in printed artifacts.
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A blog collecting images related to the Lost television show. Someone does a LOT of Google image searching, I bet.
links for 2008-01-16
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A new Bruce Sterling short story!
links for 2008-01-15
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An essay on designing webpages, CSS, etc.
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A one-two punch to the groin of science-fiction as a genre. Yikes! (Something like this could probably be applied to much other fiction, too)
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A list of css resources
links for 2008-01-14
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Yikes! The entirety of Douglas Adams HGttG series online! Wacky! Wonder how long this will stick around….
Parched
The grey bubble of a mind in slow decay
shiny slick with rainbow patterns but doomed
convexing them into looming geometries
no one has a nose that big, nor eyebrows!
Quick: apply the sushi flavored band-aid
Once full of words that brimmed out
dictionary + scissors + rage = tatters
matchless before the timesweeping tide
out, broom! we’ll need your services no more, today
Words unspoken clamor about the candleflame.
Grinning now, the teeth have eaten
though food now puddles on the floor
incandescence blazing in the closet
lighting lonely coats and scarves
Have you reset the icebox?
Stomach growls, hungry for novelty
the gut disagrees, bellowing
(the gut of the mind that is)
“no more gumdrops, dewlips, crab cakes!”
If you don’t have enough for everyone, don’t bother
Smile on the Void: the Mythhistory of Ralph M’Botu Kitaj (5)
…we are free, we are terrifyingly free, which is why we’re still shut up on this planet, deliberately ignoring what we truly see…because we’re scared to be free. Yet we have more possibilities and powers than any of us have ever imagined. Look at history. There are natural forces from which we grew estranged during the development of the intellect. We turned collectively from the Mother to the Father and the moon to the sun, from the earth to the sky and the gut to the brain. Losses and gains, learnings and forgettings–but there has been an increase. One cycle, one age has been completed, a new spiral up the ladder is beginning, and on this one we have to take charge of ourselves. Yet still we fight against out own innate freedom and power, and people still ask to be given everything on a plate. Some of them, anyway.
The smile grew wide.
The trouble is…that the survival and evolutionary value of a sense of humor is not fully appreciated. The sense of paradox and inner flexibility that gives us space to move in. People don’t laugh enough! But laughter can free us from the bonds of matter. It releases the consrictions in the body-field. And people talk of ‘dissolving into laughter’. Don’t you think that’s very suggestive?
–Stuart Gordon, 1981
Smile on the Void: the Mythhistory of Ralph M’Botu Kitaj (4)
Control of the energy of thought…The old dualism is dead. The entire Right Wing-Left Wing system. Just two monolithic lies propping each other up over a chasm. Two adjacent fingers of the same hand, in the same game, waving at each other as though they were opposites. Likewise all the other nineteenth-century reductionist rationalist fixations we’re still using as concept structure to hide in and fight about. Don’t you know? Sure you do! Politics of evolution. Some want to take the blinkers off and see more. Others want to keep them on and make sure everyone else does the same. Politics. And people who try taking the blinkers off all see different things, and start arguing about what’s the real description. More politics. Right now in this time we have to be asking the questions that matter–the big-time questions that’ll turn us to an overall view and some plan to know what the hell to do with this planet and ourselves. Because if we don’t, soon it’s all jackshit.
–Stuart Gordon, 1981
Smile on the Void: the Mythhistory of Ralph M’Botu Kitaj (3)
For a long time now information has been streaming into this world, into our varied minds, important information, from sources beyond our planetary system. The information itself is clear enough, but reception here has been poor. We have been picking it up in confused and incomplete form. One person intuits one part of the jigsaw, another picks up another, but few realize how the pieces fit, and false religion results.
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Our names were called out long ago. We have taken many partners. We have danced many dances. We have made many patterns and worn many disguises–but now it is time to take off the masks and integrate, for the bell is tolling, we have little time, we have now to form a new realization of what we are and act on this realization–or we will die uselessly, and the planet will dance no more. We are here to stand as individuals, we are here to come together with our pieces of the jigsaw, we are here to admit and harness the powers that flow through us…for we are the Transformers of the world, and can decide the shape of things on earth.
–Stuart Gordon, 1981