Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
One of the happiest memories I have of the two fairly purgatorial years I spent in Manchester is shuffling off to bed each night and listening to Sailing By and the Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4.
Few pieces of music convey such an overwhelming sense of all being well in the world than Sailing [...]
Two astonishing pieces of video art for your to infuse your brain with.
David O’Reilly’s Please Say Something
Please Say Something – Full Length from David OReilly on Vimeo.
Crush and Marco Brambilla: Civilization (or what Heironymous Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights would look like if he were living today).
Watch ‘em both in full screen. They’re worth [...]
I ran across this picture in the Boston Globe’s excellent Big Picture blog…
…and immediately wondered what the hell these things here.
They’re Maunsell Sea Forts, some of the most haunting and Ballardian relics of the Second World War.
Decommissioned in the 1950s, they were used as bases for pirate radio stations and hermitages for artists. [...]
Leon Theremin (aka Lev Sergeyevich Termen)
Lev Sergeyevich Termen – inventor of the Theremin, the motion detector, and the Buran infra-red microphone, conductor of the first all electronic orchestra, tax exile, political prisoner, KGB boffin and developer of The Thing.
And I only went to Wikipedia originally to read up on QR codes for work – honest.
As unlikely as it seems, the Somali tank pirates still haven’t been shot in the face by the Spetznaz. However, something more interesting is happening with all the Somali pirates not in imminent danger of being paid a visit by a squad of sunburned and profoundly unsympathetic Russians.
Freakanomics:
Some Somali sea scoundrels appear to be forging [...]
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