December 2011
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NYE Post: J.G. Ballard's "What I Believe"
jscottgrand:
I’m not much for resolutions but on New Year’s Eve, I like to post this bit of prose from my favorite author, J.G. Ballard.
(photograph by David Montgomery/Getty)
What I Believe
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to...
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There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the...
– Battlestar Galactica (2003) - Wikiquote
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pre-ordered Gothic High-Tech by Bruce Sterling.
I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google
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The Man Who Told the Internet He’d Come from the...
technoccult:
Mike Lynch, a private detective hired for an Italian documentary on Titor, suggests that Haber’s brother, John Rick Haber, is Titor. John Rick Haber is a computer scientist who would have known about the IBM 5100 and Unix 2038 problem, with a post office box application later linking John Rick Haber with the John Titor Foundation. Lynch believes John Rick Haber to have the...
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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...
– How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later Phillip K. Dick
[via notational]
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I knew that cyberspace was exciting, but none of the people I knew who were...
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson
[via hirmes]
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Blade Runner Sketchbook (1982) →
Blade Runner Sketchbook (1982) - original production artwork
[edit: http://www.mediafire.com/?5qpm2tbtqm3pw4g ]
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Sherlock Holmes: You're a doctor. In fact, you're an army doctor.
Dr John Watson: Yes.
Sherlock Holmes: Any good?
Dr John Watson: Very good.
Sherlock Holmes: Seen a lot of injuries, then?... violent deaths?
Dr John Watson: Yes.
Sherlock Holmes: Bit of trouble, too, I bet.
Dr John Watson: Of course, yes. Enough for a lifetime... far too much.
Sherlock Holmes: Want to see some more?
Dr John Watson: Oh, God yes.
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If you like photography, I invite you to follow this tumblr, http://colourfullifeforreblog.tumblr.com/
She reblogs photographers’s posts and there’s a lot of good photography.
(And myself I need to take the time to dig through the archive to follow some of those photographers directly.)
Her personal photo blog here : http://colourfullife4.tumblr.com/
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there...
– Richard Dawkins
[via synescape]
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Ce que le siècle des grands abattoirs nous aura appris devrait être inscrit au...