January 2011
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Herman Melville Likes Your Beard
towirr:
Or as he calls them, in order, in two chapters of White Jacket:
beards
the crop
suburbs of the chin
homeward-bounders
fly-brushes
long, trailing moss hanging from the bough of some aged oak
love-curls
Winnebago locks
carroty bunches
rebellious bristles
redundant mops
yellow bamboos
long whiskers
thrice-noble beards
plantations of hair
whiskerandoes
nodding harvests
viny...
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“A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has...”
– The first of Five Emotions Invented By The Internet described by Leigh Alexander.
Brilliant. Read ‘em all.
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“Imagine it’s 1995: almost no one but Gordon Gekko and Zack Morris have...”
– The First Decade of the Future is Behind Us | Science Not Fiction | Discover Magazine (via arielwaldman)
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via hauswittgenstein)
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“Luckily for America, I am not a terrorist, I did not kill the pilots, and I did...”
– Jeffrey Goldberg, Private Plane, Public Menace
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Sentient City Survival Kit →
A research blog by Mark Shepard documenting the development of a set of artifacts for survival in the near-future sentient city.
This blog/site discusses methods of keeping your stuff private/secure in a always-online, always-surveilled urban environment — a.k.a. a “sentient city.”
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