May 2012
fuckyeahsciencefiction:
Justin Benzel- The Wrong Channel
April 2012
kottke.org: Cockney rhyming slang ATM →
jkottke:
A number of banking machines in London offer Cockney rhyming slang as a language option. Operating the machine is simple…just insert your barrel of lard and punch in your Huckleberry Finn to get your sausage and mash.
The company has also been responsible for introducing cash machines…
Radio Silence
“The whole capitalist system functions only insofar as one plays the game and...”
– Slavoj Zizek (via pat-mersault)
ikipr:
Worlds in Collision - Part 1 - As read by...
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-future-probably... →
Reading early Gibson today is fascinating in the way that collecting vintage watches would be fascinating: one is struck by a sense of time stilled and held in the hand, of possible futures frozen and suspended as technology brings new ones into being. When Neuromancer and Mona Lisa Overdrivewere being written, Japan, as Gibson explains here, was “the global imagination’s default setting for the...
Anonymous asked: What does "Where i come from, there is always music. The bird sings a pretty song." mean, and is that the right "translation"?????-_-
http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/southsouth/drones-ar... →
Drones are Paranoid Androids
By MARYAM MONALISA GHARAVI
Image: a drone bee digitally enhanced from an illustration book.
BIRDS AND BEES
Before they were raining down from a great height‡‡Off with his head, man. as self-contained guillotines in aerial suspension, they had a noncombatant history. Archytus, the founder of mathematical mechanics, sent The Pigeon into the air in 350 B.C.E....
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/04... →
April 19, 2012
The Disco-Blasting Robot Waiters of 1980s Pasadena
Robot server at the Two Panda Deli in Pasadena, California (photo: Lowell Georgia, 1985)
In 1983, a Chinese fast-food restaurant in Pasadena, California hired a curious-looking pair of servers: two robots named Tanbo R-1 and Tanbo R-2.
At 4.5 feet tall and 180 pounds, the robots would scoot around; bringing trays of chow...
