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Bookmarks for 2011-12-17

The Future is a Virus (my Swedish Twitter University "talk")
"In my view, futurism ("strategic foresight," "scenario planning") is a vaccination for our civilization's immune system."
(tags:future )

My FRSTEE

RIG sent me a FRSTEE. Something is wrong with its head. I have a hydrocephalic FRSTEE.

TRANSMET's Filthy Assistants, By Annie Wu

 

Annie sometimes has work for sale at this link here.  She posts new stuff at this link here when she remembers.

Jemma Salume

I am presuming this woman is making many thousands of dollars somewhere, and keeps a dA profile just for fun.

Golau Glau's THE MASQUE OF BRUMA And "The Owd Tup"

Golau Glau, whom you might have heard a little of on the last SPEKTRMODULE podcast, have released a Xmas EP that is free for the downloading.

What I'd like to play for you is a beautiful radiophonic updating of the old Christmas folk song T'Owd Tup.  Proper Yorkshire hauntology.

The Owd Tup by Golau Glau

Exploring A Canadian Nuclear Bunker

Deb Chachra just pointed me at her photos from the Diefenbunker:

A four-story bunker, built during the Cold War as Canada's communication and governance hub in the case of a nuclear attack on Ottawa. Now a museum.

It's now a museum, with a website you can visit.  I love the retrotech stylings, as you can imagine, but the signage also fascinates me.  From this perspective, it's the set dressing for a post-atomic comedy of manners.  Lots of people quietly and politely drinking their reconstituted Mil-Ko under an admonishing banner, trying to suppress the fallout-era social faux pas of just screaming and screaming.

Conan! What Is Best In Life?

"Creating an electrified torture rack for my penis!"

Or, to paraphrase William Gibson, the penis finds its own uses for things.  That's a consumer-grade TENS machine, the sort of thing you can pick up on Amazon for forty quid.

Oh.  Yeah.  You might not want to click through on it.  Should have mentioned that earlier. 

Did you ever read CROOKED LITTLE VEIN?

( previously on Conan! What Is Best In Life? )

Bookmarks for 2011-12-14

NASA Builds Six-Foot Crossbow to Harpoon Comets | Wired Science | Wired.com
COMET HARPOON GUN
(tags:space tech )
More evidence found for quantum physics in photosynthesis (Wired UK)
"Physicists have found the strongest evidence yet of quantum effects fuelling photosynthesis."
(tags:sci )
Mathematica Visualization and Graphics Gallery of Jeff Bryant
"This animation shows a Calabi-Yau surface which is a projection of these higher dimensions into the more familiar dimensions we are aware of."
(tags:sci )
A Brief Introduction to the Ekpyrotic Universe
"The Ekpyrotic Model of the Universe proposes that our current universe arose from a collision of two three-dimensional worlds (branes) in a space with an extra (fourth) spatial dimension."
(tags:sci )
Minkowski space – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"hypersurface of the present" – always loved that term
(tags:sci )
Atomtronics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The use of ultra-cold atoms leads to circuit elements that allow for the coherent flow of information and may be useful in connecting classical electronic devices and quantum computers." ATOMTRONICS!
(tags:comp tech sci )

Exploring A Russian Nuclear Shelter

I can't get enough of this stuff, personally.  Presumably some deep-seated fetish from having grown up during the Cold War and hearing the nuclear attack warning siren being tested every six months.