March 11, 2018
The pieces are all there to create an entirely different world history.
"Those same pioneering humans who colonised much of the planet also experimented with an enormous variety of social arrangements." In a new article Davids Graeber and Wengrow argue that popularly accepted models of human history are now outmoded by archaeological findings. [more inside]
No, we did not stage this and yes I was wearing pants
The Mystery of Miami Mike: SOLVED
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A lot of new horizons open up [more inside]
to you by
Ctenosaur Video
NO Thanks to:
Miami Mike – I remember what
you did to me at DragonCon
A lot of new horizons open up [more inside]
And by the way, they are deeply sad
"I underestimated how difficult the concept would be for both of them"
Armed with a pair of GoPro cameras, Tim Heidecker and Eric Warheim (previously 1, 2, 3) capture the excitement of a day in their office. But as tensions mount, even the support of the biggest names in Hollywood can't prevent tragedy. Tim & Eric's GoPro Show: episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4, episode 5 [NSFW], episode 6. (Each episode is ~5 mins long.)
She Shoots, They Score
One electric game, a lot of hard work, and a whole lot of love. If you’re looking for the heartbeats of Hutterite women’s hockey, this is where you’ll find it.
The wound in the willows
Every famous story inspires fan fiction, but Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908) has inspired an unusual number of book-length extensions and reinterpretations. I’ve spent the last few months reading some of those tributes, discovering in the process a darkness just beneath the skin of my favorite children’s book.
“...and something called coconut bacon, which you just know isn’t.”
In which the restaurant reviewer Jay Rayner visits a café, pays £110 for a meal for two, but doesn't even stay for dessert. “The artichoke is just so much mushy leaf matter, and smells of a long Sunday afternoon in someone’s overheated suburban front room ... 'Paola’s Market Veggies' arrive in a bowl, with a grainy, deathly 'carrot hummus' thickly smeared up the side, like someone had an intimate accident and decided to close the loo door and run away ... The jackfruit is described as being barbecued. This means it has been smeared with a blunt barbecue sauce of the kind they serve at pubs with a flat roof.” [more inside]
"Famous non-object" to "technological reality" to surprising controversy
Today if you open a laptop or unlock a phone to type in Chinese, the first thing you’ll notice is how intent the software is on doing all your work for you. The letters typed on your keyboard trigger the on-screen display of several dozen likely possibilities, arranged in order of frequency. This seems so obviously computational it is a surprise to learn that it originated with the actuating keys Lin devised for his typewriter, and with the fervour of the typists in the early days of the Revolution.[more inside]
A 2017 game journal
Janine Hawkins' 2017 game journal. Hawkins is a freelance games writer (Waypoint, Polygon, others). She just released a pay-what-you-want PDF copy of her games of 2017 journal: "In a nutshell, any game I put significant time into (or that made a strong impression on me) qualified. From tiny aesthetic projects to huge AAA releases, I drew and wrote pages about the games I played both for work and for fun. And by the end of the year, I had 58 entries to show for it."
Twitter quest to identify and honor an unnamed attendee.
On March 9th, illustrator Candace Jean posted a photograph and question on Twitter in the hope of identifying a woman attendee at the International Conference on the Biology of Whales. [more inside]
Where Late the Kate Wilhelm Wrote
Kate Wilhelm, award winning author of science fiction and mystery books, has died at age 89. Her son posted an announcement on facebook. [more inside]
All Things Must Pass
A problem that concerns the hole community
In an attempt to give the public some insight into how road maintenance decisions are made, Cheshire West and Chester Council tweeted an example of an, according to a professional measurement, insufficiently deep pothole. The tweet has since been removed, but not until after it got viral [imgur gallery].
Enter the schizoanalyst
"‘How could two such different men, with such distinct sensibilities and styles, pursue their intellectual agenda together for more than 20 years?’ asked Francois Dosse in his 2007 double biography. The answer to this question – and the secret to their alliance – was their mutual distrust of identity. Deleuze and Guattari were both resolutely anti-individualist: whether in the realm of politics, psychotherapy or philosophy, they strived to show that the individual was a deception, summoned up to obscure the nature of reality."
After the Vet
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