July 2011
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“As you can see, the objects produced are quite rudimentary, but it’s hard...”
– BLDGBLOG: Dune Bank Suitcase
WatchCosmic Architectures
(via David Mutch » ‘Why Did Aliens Build The Pyramids?’, 2011)
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“Chapter’s release coincides with the reissue of Dinosaur Jr’s 1988...”
– Cassette tapes | Rewind to the ’90s
Sensor-Vernacular →
Maybe my response to it is in some ways as nostalgic as my response to NASA imagery.
Maybe it’s the hauntology of moments in the 80s when the domestication of video, computing and business machinery made things new, cheap and bright to me. But for now, let me finish with this.
There’s both a nowness and nextness to Sensor-Vernacular.
I think my attraction to it – what ever it is – is that these...
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“DNA is now DIY: OpenPCR ships worldwide”
– DNA is now DIY: OpenPCR ships worldwide | OpenPCR - Open source, hackable PCR machine
Humans evolving slower than previously thought,... →
A study of the genomes of two families has found that the number of mutations thought to occur each generation had been overestimated, suggesting that the pace of human evolution is slower than scientists had thought.
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occupying outdated utopias
The occupation of mayer’s indulgent mushrooms, a government project, becomes a powerful form of protest. ethel asks, do we believe in utopias? yes—but we also believe some of them are never meant to be built. in architecture, we tend to conflate formal and political utopias as a single group, when they are often at odds with each other. the megastructures of the japanese metabolists, as beautiful...
Watches Are Rediscovered by the Cellphone... →
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The end of the Space Age →
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“the ghosts of a future we turned away from”
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Documentary on half-built nukes seeks crowdfunding - Boing Boing
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