The new bridge at the Hoover dam (via i.dailymail.co.uk)
I’d love to go see this before it’s finished.
“photographic proof that new mexico isn’t just straight up desert..for all you non-believers” (via erin azouz)
Some more photo’s from yesterday in tehran #iranelection (via .faramarz)
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“Rushkoff illuminates both how we’ve become disconnected from our world, and how we can reconnect to our towns, to the value we can create, and mostly, to one another. As the speculative economy collapses under its own weight, Life Inc. shows us how to build a real and human-scaled society to take its place.”
The book’s full introduction is available on Rushkoff’s blog. It’s well worth a read.
When no knowledge is held to be respectable which is not objective knowledge, what we know will always seem to be not ourselves, not the subject. This we have the feeling of knowing things only from the outside, never from within, of being confronted eternally with a world of impendetrable surfaces within surfaces within surfaces.
Alan Watts - Nature, Man and Woman
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
I heard this catchy little tune, by Thee Headcoatees, while having lunch in a diner yesterday.
It’s good to be back in San Francisco.
When a lot of us saw it, we thought this was the definition of a great game,” says Pete Fenlon, CEO of Mayfair Games, Settlers’ English-language distributor. “In every turn you’re engaged, and even better, you’re engaged in other people’s turns. There are lots of little victories—as opposed to defeats—and perpetual hope. Settlers is one of those perfect storms.
Monopoly Killer: Perfect German Board Game Redefines Genre
Settler’s of Catan is the first board game I’ve enjoyed since cheating at Life against my sister when we were kids.
Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Detroit, and Techno (via JN6)
“If you could just imagine what it must look like in the Titanic. I think this is like a Titanic above water.”
Behind the Mic on Vimeo (via Anticon)
I’m trying to tell my folks that flowin ain’t easy.
Ms Vessey’s mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based film industry wizards Weta Workshop after the Auckland woman wrote to them two years ago asking if they could make her a prosthetic tail. She was astounded when they agreed. (Mermaid dream comes true thanks to Weta)
