July 2008
June 2008
“In my own experience, the one person I feel like I have the least...”
– Rivka Galchen
“The sheer torrential pressure of game releases over the last three years has...”
– Lust for the New
Yes, We Will Have No Bananas →
Requiem for the Arcades →
“Books entered my house under cover of night, from the four winds, smuggled in by...”
– Luc Sante, The Book Collection That Devoured My Life (via magrolima)
Making tracks →
Irvine Welsh on the compulsion to write Trainspotting
Albinos being "hunted" for their body parts →
LHCountdown.com →
Counting the days until the Large Hadron Collider activation.
Web making us worried, but probably not stupid →
(…) concerns about new technology go back to Plato’s worries that writing will make people mentally dull because it encourages ‘laziness’. Until the hard evidence comes in, anxieties about the web remain fear rather than fact. The data just doesn’t exist.
Is Google making us stupid? →
We really don’t want to think like Google. We don’t want to speak like Twitter. We don’t want to converse like email. And yet we increasingly do, as the Internet reshapes the world in its image.
Is Earth's Magnetic Field Failing Us? →
You are what you buy, and definitely what you... →
“Not having Wikipedia as an outboard brain makes me feel like part of me has...”
– The Starving Nerd
The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clichés →
