September 2009
“I wish in the past I had tried more things ‘cause now I know that being in...”
– Ray Smuckles (via syntheticpubes)
Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child - Salon.com →
Kate Harding on Polanski’s arrest
Roman Polanski raped a child. Let’s just start right there, because that’s the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in “exile” (which in this case means owning multiple homes in Europe, continuing to work as a...
“I’m thirty. I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”
– The Great Gatsby
“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”
– A. H. Weiler
“Sometimes No is more efficient than No, Thank You.”
– Joss Whedon
France adopts law that lets entertainment goons... →
“Forced work is not work, it’s slavery; forced sex is not sex, it’s rape.”
– sex, art, and politics: On Sex Work
Adobe Story, an early look →
John August -Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish- ‘s overview of Adobe’s foray into scriptwriting software.
Charlie Stross on Ice on Mars →
The whole focus of space exploration during the 1980s and 1990s would have shifted dramatically if the Viking landers had uncovered ice. I don’t think we’d have seen an Apollo-style rush to send astronauts there, but there was a hiatus of nearly 20 years after Viking during with the American space science academy mostly ignored Mars […]
“It’s not a revolution if nobody loses.”
– Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
Gravitational Corridors For Space Travel -3qd →
Scientists in the United States are trying to map the twisting ”tubes” so they can be used to cut the cost of journeys in space.
Each one acts like a gravitational Gulf Stream, created from the complex interplay of attractive forces between planets and moons.
marbury: what jung got right about dreams →
These experiments suggest that our dreams are delicately tweaked versions of reality, stuffed full of counterfactuals and alternative scenarios. When we dream, we seem to be testing out our new knowledge, as we try to figure out what we need to remember and what we can afford to forget.
“The theory of everything consists in a circle, a triangle, a square and the sign...”
– Jonathan Meese (via xavierencinas)
Rise of the Tablog →
Once a simple gateway to self-publishing, today the blog format is responsible for a thousand tawdry tablogs: hideous half-breeds of tabloid and blog built around odeous content, cluttered site designs, and optimised for pageviews alone.
