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Taking an intermission from posting — work to be done. In the meantime, browse through Ffffound.com. You’ll be aesthetically slaughtered by images like this

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As an internet video afficionado, I’d like to present you with a video playlist along the theme of “Music Video Exceptionalism.”

Video Game Reality
Better than larping, but still odd.
I had a dream about this last night…

If politics is built by language, there are words in the right policies, and a vacant silence in the tongue of the opposing policies.An excerpt from:
Stuck on Coal, and Stuck for Words in a High-Tech World - {NYTimes}
by | By Andrew C. Revkin, 12.4.2007
It’s no wonder that scientists immersed for decades in this problem are [...]

Theoretical Model of a Nano bearing
The nano is within me and without you as I embark on my fourth month of research into the Gray Goo Scenario (an apocalyptic vision of nanotech popular from 1986-2001 wherin nanomachines self-replicate to no end, devouring the earth) for my senior thesis. Let’s just say I’ve done a lot [...]

The finalists for Getty Images ‘The Next Big Idea’ contest are worth looking into. The contest solicited film makers and visual artists to
Pitch a film about The Big Idea. Yes, The Big Idea. Whatever that means to you. It could be a narrative. It could be a hallucinatory sensory experience set to music. [...]

There’s nothing better than a well made gif file. I feel like with the advent of streaming flash videos, we’ve lost the need for the animated gif. It’s nearly the same size, reliably transfered on all browsers and operating systems, but we’ve forgotten its magic. Until now.