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Bookmarks for April 15th through April 20th

silus — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:48 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for April 15th through April 20th:

Comic Book Resources > CBR News: Alan Moore’s Bestiary of Fictional Worlds – "…our hopes, our fears, the things that we express in dreams, as a culture we express through our fiction, particularly our fantastic fictions. And it’s really interesting. It is actually saying something about our world, not purely a literary exercise. It is a fabulous literary game, but I’m starting to realize after the fact, as usual, that it’s more than that because of the interconnected nature of the world of fiction and our material world, that they’re interdependent on each other. [...] Yes, it is real flesh-and-blood people who create these fictional beings, but the fictional beings create us as well. It’s not as straightforward as it looks…"
White Fungus – Bruce Sterling – Architecture Fiction
kokomoo.com –
Omegle – Talk to strangers
Eleven Fine Art – Current exhibition – No Love Lost
Daisy de Villeneuve and Natasha Law

silus — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:12:33 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for March 17th through April 1st:

"Fucking Hell" – Jake & Dinos rebuild Hell
Skimmer – We Are Fallon – Desktop social aggregator with AIR
Quotes On Comics » Quotes on Comic Books, Updated Daily! –
Memory Switch Could Enable Brain Hacks | Wired Science from Wired.com – "…a signal that appears to precede the formation of any memory type. It could be an all-purpose memory switch, determining when the brain enters a favorable encoding state, roughly akin to the overwrite tab on an old-fashioned floppy disk. "
Alan Moore talks about Watchmen | guardian.co.uk – "Things that we did in Watchmen on paper could be frankly horrible or sensationalist or unpleasant if you were to interpret them literally through the medium of cinema. When it's just lines on paper, the reader is in control of the experience – it's a tableau vivant. And that gives it the necessary distance. It's not the same when you're being dragged through it at 24 frames per second."

silus — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:13:05 +0000

Delicious bookmarks for February 28th through March 4th:

Charles Stross: The 21st century: FAQ –
What Bruce Sterling Actually Said About Web 2.0 at Webstock 09 | Beyond the Beyond from Wired.com – "I've never seen so much panic around me, but panic is the last thing on my mind. My mood is eager impatience. I want to see our best, most creative, best-intentioned people in world society directly attacking our worst problems."
'We're All Gonna Die – 100 meters of existence' –
x-phi – "It has a name to delight an advertising executive: x-phi. It has blogs and books devoted to it, and boasts an expanding body of researchers in elite universities. It even has an icon: an armchair in flames. If philosophy ever can be, x-phi is trendy."
Text of Steve Jobs' Commencement address (2005) – "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."