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Some time or other I have read that ↑Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton at his home in Trieste had twelve wooden desks. On each desk the material of one particular book project he was working on, was stacked. Not … Continue reading →
Some time or other I have read that ↑Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton at his home in Trieste had twelve wooden desks. On each desk the material of one particular book project he was working on, was stacked. Not … Continue reading →
Today I received notice that the “↑Open Source Annual 2007″ will go to the printer on 25 February 2007, and will be presented to the public on 15 March 2007 at the CeBIT. The volume will contain a 15-page … Continue reading →
It seems like ↑just.be in meatspace somehow ran into Thomas ‘↑Panter‘ Pilger, who in 1997 “spread throughout the ↑COMPET-N tables like a plague. By August, he was the first to do the third ↑DOOM 2 episode (Map 21-30) on Nightmare … Continue reading →
This is a late follow-up to 2005’s ↵zelda vans: ↑Thrilling Wonder features a phantastic ↑series of dekotora truck pictures. See also, if you like, ↑Dekotora at the Wikipedia, and compare to ↵bedford’s appropriation and ↵bedford’s metamorphosis. And for those ↑deep … Continue reading →
Humankind made two fundamental discoveries which made the invention and development of the computer possible. Firstly the discovery that the empirically graspable world, at least partially, can be described by mathematical models. Secondly the discovery that calculations necessary for prophecies—for … Continue reading →
Pulp Surrealism is about the secret life of mass culture, specifically its surrealistic undercurrents. It establishes a low-brow, anti-establishment genealogy of the Parisian dada and surrealist movements in the popular realms of crime fiction and sensationalist journalism. Mass culture was … Continue reading →
What’s that with the Balkans? ↑Bruce Sterling not only now lives in Belgrade, but tells us in his recent ↑Washington Post article “↑My dot-green future is finally arriving“ about himself “standing among a crowd of radical Serbs in front … Continue reading →
Since academics have started to deal with “life online” there is the topos of “On the Internet nobody knows that you are a dog,” meaning that when interacting online it is supposedly perfectly easy to adopt identities completely different from … Continue reading →
The basic text-editor which comes with Windows sports a, maybe little known, feature which can be put to good use. My daily routine of doing thick participation online involves the creation of a flat text-file for every day’s fieldnotes and … Continue reading →
Just got an e-mail from my friend ↑Maurizio Teli, whom I learned to know ↑eastward in ↑Brno at ↑daylight. He presented a paper in the same workshop where I did, and I was completely blown away by his systematic and … Continue reading →