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Category Archives: technology
Six minutes to midnight
This morning, the Board of Directors and the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock would be moved one minute back from five to six minutes to midnight. … Continue reading
Public Service Aesthetics
In the meantime, bicycle-powered irrigation systems have become the latest subterfuge for ambitious grad students who want to be written up in Artforum. Doug Harvey, There Go the Zeros
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The end of the road
A Day in the Life of a Handmade Skateboard
Solitary Times’ tour of ABC Board Supply skateboard factory in Costa Mesa, CA
How scrolling works/how memory works
Apple IIc manual
Burn
From: Simon Edhouse Date: Monday 16 November 2009 2.19pm To: David Thorne Subject: Logo Design Hello David, I would like to catch up as I am working on a really exciting project at the moment and need a logo designed. … Continue reading
Polpress Zappa Flexi-Disc Postcards
Apparently, the Polish Polpress label, at some point in history, made several sets of “flexi-disc postcards” – postcards that you could play on your record-player – with material from a wide range of Zappa albums. The German underground Zappa reference … Continue reading
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Mountain Chief
Frances Densmore at the Smithsonian Institution in 1916 during a recording session with Blackfoot chief Mountain Chief for the Bureau of American Ethnology. Via Brain News.
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150.313 mph (241.9 km/h)
Roland ‘Rollie’ Free, Bonneville Salt Flats, September 13, 1948. Via A Continuous Lean.
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Mars by the numbers
Bangkok Dangerous move From greg.org: In 1965, after the Mariner 4 probe had possibly transmitted its first closeup images of Mars and in the many hours before JPL computers would finish processing that image, mission scientists were concerned about what, … Continue reading
Edwards Air Force Base
Barbie as the Island Princess film Edwards Air Force Base. Compass rose image via Seen Said Heard.
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expressionistically applied orange paint on post-Katrina house and yard concentric rings of biomorphic colored plastic (?) on gallery wall with stonehenge reference in title tie dye molotov cocktail with purple-blue-grey soft drink bleeding into fuse fabric wall installation of paintings … Continue reading
The Age of Mammals
Back to the Future trailer Igby Goes Down release Selections from The Age of Mammals curated by Guthrie Lonergan