a novelty choking hazard

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pink terror

YouTube – Pink Terror More slo-mo goodness. I must say I’m not over-keen on the soundtrack, but if you are, it’s over here. (via 3quarksdaily)

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links for 2009-12-17: TV-as-art, Copenhagen fudgerama

Emily Nussbaum on When TV Became Art – The 00's Issue — New York Magazine Whatever else the '00s might or might not have going for them, it was beyond serious doubt the most amazing time for (some) television. Odd, … more…

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london-hq-sunny

Here’s another cheery post-apocalyptic cityscape, in much the same vein as the New York image from a while back. This time, as you see, it’s London, and if you’re as visually pedantic as yr hmbl bloggr, you will notice that … more…

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Ski resort, Dubai

Dubai, as noted previously, is expected to become a major exporter of apocalyptic omens, portents and casual weirdness for that arbitrary portion of the coming century that we can describe — with due trepidation — as “foreseeable”. I passed over … more…

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Now We Are Six; the novelty choking hazard explained

Enthusiasm became a blog six years ago today. Prior to that, enthusiasm had been a static link page on each successive iteration of my personal site, going back to February 1996, when Ye Midden first went up. A copy of … more…

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links for 2007-07-10: cult of the amateur

The Cult of the Amateur – Andrew Keen – Books – Review – New York Times (tags: angst doom web-2.0 andrewkeen)

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links for 2006-12-12: Rigorous Intuition, Peak Oil, Minsky, Dennett, Pynchon, Orwell

Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0) (tags: blog politics weird UFO) Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash “Dear Reader, Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon…” – good summary of the imminent energy crisis (tags: peakoil energy … more…

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