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A map of the locations in JG Ballard's fiction. Click a marker on the map to read the relevant text.
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at 8:24 AM on October 14, 2011
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Daniel Soar
on the militarisation of metaphor:
Spies aren’t known for their cultural sensitivity. So it was a surprise when news broke last month that IARPA, a US government agency that funds ‘high-risk/high-payoff research’ into areas of interest to the ‘intelligence community’, had put out a call for contributions to its Metaphor Program, a five-year project to discover what a foreign culture’s metaphors can reveal about its beliefs.
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at 8:05 AM on June 27, 2011
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The New Aesthetic For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach a new aesthetic of the future, which sounds more portentous than I mean. What I mean is that we’ve got frustrated with the NASA extropianism space-future, the failure of jetpacks, and we need to see the technologies we actually have with a new wonder.
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at 4:05 AM on June 17, 2011
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24in60 The last 24 hours in 60-second, unbiased news bites.
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at 8:08 AM on May 17, 2011
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The Monkees' Head: 'Our fans couldn't even see it' At the height of their fame, the Monkees teamed up with Jack Nicholson to film the psychedelic classic Head – and destroy their careers in the process. So how do they feel about it now?
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at 7:22 AM on April 29, 2011
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The Tone Generation is a radio series by Ian Helliwell 'looking at different themes or composers in the era of analogue tape and early synthesizer technology'. The original globe-trotting series:
Great Britain,
France,
Germany,
Italy,
Holland,
Scandinavia,
Eastern Europe,
USA,
Canada,
Rest of World. Bonus programmes:
Expo 58,
The RCA Synthesizer.
All links are to MP3 files, except the first one. Alternatively, you can slurp down the lot in one go by subscribing to the podcast feed.
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at 3:15 PM on November 21, 2008
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Theatre of the New Ear. Two radio plays: one by Charlie Kaufman, the other by the Coen Brothers, recorded live and starring Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep.
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at 3:09 PM on November 20, 2008
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A
complete archive of French magazine L'Officiel de la Mode, from 1921 to 2008. It's a treasure trove for fans of fashion, photography, advertising and design.
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at 3:44 PM on November 14, 2008
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Dionisio González makes photographs of
imaginary favelas,
Filip Dujardin makes photographs of
imaginary buildings.
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at 5:56 AM on November 9, 2008
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The
Demarco Digital Archive holds 10,000 images and documents gathered by
Richard Demarco, gallerist, Beuys collaborator, founder of the Traverse theatre and a key figure on the Scottish arts scene since the '60s.
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at 2:04 AM on November 4, 2008
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It seems almost incredible that Ursula Bogner's musical talents should have remained undiscovered
until now.
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at 3:57 AM on November 1, 2008
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Say 'Hebbo' to
Tarvuism. Learn more at the
Tarvupedia. It's
SO easy to join!
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at 7:39 PM on October 10, 2008
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Jonathan "
King of Hits" King is a former pop impresario now best known for his
conviction and imprisonment for having sex with teenage boys. He has turned his
experiences into a satirical musical,
Vile Pervert [NSFW], and released the film for free online. In one number, adopting the persona of Oscar Wilde, King asserts that
"there's nothing wrong with buggering boys".
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at 10:32 AM on May 9, 2008
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The Sound Of Clothes features
the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains, recorded in an anechoic chamber.
Videos linked from the page might be NSFW.
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at 9:58 AM on March 12, 2008
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POSSESSED is a short documentary film that 'enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions'.
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at 6:22 AM on March 7, 2008
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The Unsung Joe: Where bit-part actors go when they die. Biographies of the most obscure micro-stars of 1940s and '50s cinema, all remarkably well-researched and richly illustrated.
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at 5:51 PM on December 11, 2007
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The London Transport Museum's Poster Collection is now online. 5,000 posters and 700 original poster artworks, ranging from
No need to ask a p'liceman!, the 1908 poster introducing the new underground map, to a
stunning image by Man Ray, via Hans Unger's simple, beautiful
Country Churches: How To Get There.
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at 2:35 AM on September 28, 2007
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Where Are The Joneses? is an
interactive sitcom from
Steve Coogan's
production company. The action centres on Dawn Jones, who, on learning that she is the daughter of a sperm donor, sets out to find her twenty-seven siblings. You can watch
episodes on YouTube, follow a
Flickr photo-diary, and, inevitably, keep up via
Dawn's Twitter account. Don't like the plot, characters or gags? Then rewrite the show
on its wiki.
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at 12:43 PM on July 10, 2007
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The
IDIOM Media Watch on Climate Change aggregates web content from 150 sources, accessible in the form of semantic maps, on which the topology of the Earth is redrawn as mountains and valleys according to the density of available information, or a three-dimensional '
knowledge planet' viewable in
NASA World Wind.
[Via Information Aesthetics.]
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at 4:23 AM on July 7, 2007
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Planed - a new work by Gilbert & George, available for download until 11:35pm on the 10th of May.
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at 4:15 PM on May 8, 2007
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Wim Delvoye makes art out of skin, filming it in
extreme close-up, or, at his
Art Farm in China, by
tattooing pigs which are later
stuffed or
skinned.
More images: 1, 2, 3, 4.
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at 7:15 AM on April 14, 2007
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A Timeline of Timelines
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at 1:13 PM on November 14, 2006
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The Bio Mapping tool allows the wearer to record their
Galvanic Skin Response, which is a simple indicator of
emotional arousal, in conjunction with their geographical location. By sharing this data we can construct maps that visualise where we
as a community feel stressed and excited.
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at 6:42 AM on November 13, 2006
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Not In The Newsfilter: Yesterday, two men
attended their pre-trial hearing at Preston Crown Court, accused of possession of explosive material. As previously
reported only in
local newspapers, Robert Cottage was in possession of 'what is believed to be a record haul of chemicals used in making home-made bombs', while a search of former
BNP candidate David Bolus Jackson's house 'uncovered rocket launchers, chemicals... and a nuclear biological suit'. Some
webloggers, and the
left-wing press, are wondering whether the story might have received more coverage if the suspected bomb-makers had been, say, Muslims. The BBC
blame reporting restrictions.
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at 11:59 AM on October 24, 2006
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Project Nova: on the 9th of September three Cambridge engineering students
launched a balloon equipped with a camera and tracking devices. It reached a height of 32km and took
857 photographs during its three hour flight,
some showing the curvature of the earth. You can also download
a KML file to follow the balloon's flight path in Google Earth.
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at 5:50 PM on September 23, 2006
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History of the Button, a weblog devoted to 'tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond'.
This presentation [4.5MB .pdf] provides a quick-fire pictorial history of the things we push to do stuff.
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at 11:42 AM on September 22, 2006
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Mapping Medieval Townscapes: a digital atlas of the new towns of Edward I For each town you will find maps and images, as well as historical interpretation, bibliographical information, and access through to a geographical database. (The fancy interactive maps are especially good.)
Warning: you'll have to click to agree to some terms and conditions before you can view the site.
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at 5:35 AM on September 6, 2006
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The D-Day Photographs of Robert Capa (via Plep)
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at 9:28 AM on September 4, 2006
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Loathe as I am to add to the centennial ubiquity of
the late laureate, I can't help but wonder: who is the
Betjemaniac prankster Mme de Harben? And why does she think that biographer
AN Wilson is a shit?
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at 7:06 AM on August 28, 2006
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We Shall Not Be Moved: Some joined the US military as a patriotic duty, some to better themselves, but the horrors of serving in Iraq, including Abu Ghraib, changed everything. Deserters tell Gary Younge why they had to quit.
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at 4:25 PM on August 26, 2006
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C86:
Side A and
Side B.
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at 3:06 PM on August 24, 2006
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Roman Numerals and Arithmetic
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at 4:30 AM on August 19, 2006
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'Alien' art Artist
Jonathon Keats has made
abstract paintings from
SHGb02+14a, a radio signal
discovered by
SETI@home in 2003, then dubbed their best candidate yet for an attempt at contact by intelligent aliens. Keats is also returning the favour, broadcasting his work into space from the
Judah L. Magnes Museum using CB radio.
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at 10:03 AM on August 3, 2006
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3,000 photographs of Glaswegians taken by Glaswegians, between 1989 and 1992.
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at 3:43 PM on July 13, 2006
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Utopian Modernism In London: A Series Of Drifts... is a tour of modernist landmarks, tying architectural practice to politics and
movements in
art. Author Owen Hatherley also keeps
a weblog chiefly concerned with art and utopianism in Weimar Germany and the early Soviet Union. Photographer Ludwig Abache's
site contains more architectural imagery, from London and beyond.
(via newthings)
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at 3:47 AM on June 28, 2006
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Richard Tomlinson is a former spy. Jailed under the Official Secrets Act in 1995 for publishing his
memoirs, famed for
claiming there's a cover up surrounding Princess Diana's death and allegedly leaking a
list of active MI6 agents, he is still fuming about his dismissal from the Secret Intelligence Service. So he
started a weblog, complete with posts containing
sensitive information. The British authorities
are displeased.
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at 8:11 AM on May 24, 2006
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George Bataille's
Documents—a short-lived but
influential journal conceived as a '
war machine against received ideas'—has inspired an exhibition,
Undercover Surrealism (Flash with sound).
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at 5:32 AM on May 10, 2006
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IndieKarma micropayments: automatically tip the weblogs you favour 1¢ each time you visit.
(Via Kottke, perhaps unsurprisingly.)
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at 3:00 AM on May 9, 2006
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A Brief History Of The Clenched Fist. With illustrations.
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at 7:20 AM on May 3, 2006
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Kid Congo Powers, noted guitar stylist, teenage president of
The Ramones Fan Club, erstwhile member of
The Cramps,
The Gun Club, and
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (also known for his collaborations with
Julee Cruise,
The Legendary Stardust Cowboy,
Khan and others) has produced a
two part online autobiography of sorts for
New York Night Train. It includes
oral histories, available as transcriptions or MP3s, pages from
his Cramps scrapbook, a vintage
Creem article,
free MP3s from his back catalogue, and, of course, his
recipe for enchiladas.
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at 4:04 PM on February 12, 2006
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Guidestar.org.uk offers detailed information on all 167,000 registered charities in England and Wales, as well as guides to
giving and
volunteering. And, should you wish to give Christmas gifts that make a difference,
The Alternative Gift Catalogue and
Good Gifts can help.
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at 6:41 AM on December 17, 2005
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Generation KKK Documentary photographs of the Ku Klux Klan, 1988-2002, by James Edward Bates.
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at 3:08 AM on December 15, 2005
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Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres provide
beautiful surroundings in which cancer patients and their families can
learn to adjust to living with the disease. You'd think an organisation called
Christian Voice would support them, but the group instead chose to bully the charity into turning down the proceeds from a gala performance of
Jerry Springer, The Opera (which
they believe to be a deeply offensive work),
pretending to be helping them avoid a scandal, while
threatening them with protests outside their centres around the UK.
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at 4:00 AM on February 23, 2005
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The Drift Table lets you float gently over the British landscape from the comfort of your living room.
Other projects from the
Equator research group include a tablecloth that glows and a key table that responds to your mood. Hi-tech knick-knacks, or a glimpse of the subtle way we'll interact with the domestic environment of the future?
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at 7:14 AM on January 28, 2004
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Infrasound :
Elephants use it to communicate, the military have sought to
harness its power as a
weapon (.pdf). So have
The KLF. Now, a group of avant garde musicians invite you to
feel the bass. If reports of the
Feraliminal Lycanthropizer are to be believed, that could be one hell of a gig.
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at 3:56 AM on May 19, 2003
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