2008

Jul

Word of the day: weltanschauung

Weltanshauung (pronounced VELT-ahn-show-ung): A comprehensive conception or apprehension of the...

Build yer own damn rollercoaster… like this guy… and then invite me over plzkthx <3

The Hype Machine

“Rule One: Concepts are connected by analogy. There is no...”
— Umberto Eco, Foucault’s...

Jun

from Fermilab’s plan for the next ten years. A nice...

Gettysberg Cemetary Dedication

One of my favorite bits from a recently liberated man. . R.I.P, George (you magnificent bastard.)

Perspectivity

Those that know me know i’m an overthinking, under-rested weirdo. I’m prone to speculate...

Sometimes it speaks of the day’s events.

phylum sinter - sun stands still [monobirdy] draft1.1a A draft for the longest day of the year.

[PLZ2BUY4MEKTHX Dept.] Ampbot: the mother of...

Vote for this on current.tv here. Detroit <3

Oxala / Obatala

Word of the Day: Apophenia

“Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data....

May

Jupiter’s Red Spots, as seen from Hubble’s Wide...

Hurricane Gordon [from September 17th, 2006] as seen from...

We are Biology, and we are not only tough, but weird and echoy.

Thorazine does a body good. Also: mind. Also: joke!! Have...

see tawd

ausetus: We (that is Lily, Pee Wee and I) miss you. Athena doesn’t know you but I am sure if she did...

Wilson?

Dave: ...oh, What did you have today?
Me: A couple pots of coffee and many hours walking around outside. You know when you're up for too long out in the direct sun your brain sort of gets all rubbery, it's like maybe a wad of blacktop has taken hold in my frontal cortex...
Dave: ...Or a basketball. Spalding?
Me: Yes, Spalding. Today i am Spalding.

Functions are Concepts

The world of ideas is subject to the same basic outlines as the world of the physical - which in...

“What people perceive, how readily they perceive it, and how...”
— Richards J. Heuer, Jr. from...

Django Reinhardt and Stefan Grappelli

Wassily Kandinsky - painting on display in the Detroit...

Apr

Understanding Overtures

A light, a motion and sound all tricklinginto view: the senses alignpurpose laid though inferred...

“I think one day we’ll notice our preferences leaving...”
— C.Todd - From an entirely too...

it does scare me alot. WITH GOOD REASON.

Me to We

There is always division here. Life internally, mentally is a set of connections whose boundaries...

[Scientific American] Meditate on This: You...

“I can’t understand why people are afraid of new ideas,...”
— John Cage

Pangea Day [May 10th] website & Info

Phylum Sinter @ DEMF/Movement~!

I’ve just gotten an email confirming that i’ve been selected to play one [of no-doubt a...

The Metaphysics of Aristotle

Poignant piece of Political Propaganda Perspective by someone outside the U.S. Is this what the...

3 Theories That Might Blow Up The Big Bang

The World as Borderless.

Imagine a world where humanity has evolved to become so aware of the inter-relation between all life...

Claude the Bear is AMAZING WITH A STICK. Yes, his name is actually Claude. What of it?

Japan is winner! Give those guys the keys to the car already. Note: incredibly NSFW. Fair...

MDG Monitor - Tracking the Millenium...

Mar

AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water

good video demonstrating the scale and purpose of the CERN LHC, currently locked in a lawsuit for...

the division of purpose

thedaytheytriedtokillme: The builders of the world’s...

Polar Storm on Saturn has a Sexy Hurricane...

Absolutely menacing sculpture with the pope sitting so very...

NOW YOU UNDERSTAND.

BUNNY NOOOO!!!! :) p.s. happy easter ervybawday

I gamble away my fright

Empathy appears to be the source of morality. When we notice those we care for to the point of...

Swedish court rules against ads

“By showing that the energising properties of the...

Ask H&FJ - The Sulzbacher Eszett

phylum sinter - lord loves a dirty man features my best synthetic kalimba sound ever.

from Toothpaste For Dinner

“I reflected that even in the languages of humans there is no...”
— from “The Writing of the...

Jenna Fischer Slams Playwright Over Remarks

Global Consciousness Project

Creating Ghosts I-IV [from NIN’s official Flickr] It...

On Momentum

Concepts, arts, sounds, cultures have worth. A momentary fluctuation of the worth of any conceptual...

There is so much driving Mr. Dyack, his love for his craft that at this point it is some kind of...

1,000 True Fans

On The occluded and shown

Knowledge and Wisdom are hardly synonymous beyond their constituent parts. Knowledge functions...

“If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be...”
— Sent-ts’an

Great short from Tourist Pictures.

Galactus Infinitum vs. Timid Zebu - Fyve ayy Emm Collapse

Feb

Stuff White People Like

at a loss, at a gain

[Nat. Geo.] The God Particle - On cracking...

The Perry Bible Fellowship enters...

The Folly of the Absolute

Terms like “always” and “never” are beautiful, if theoretical, concepts. ...

Tonight, between 10:01 and 10:51pm EST the moon will have...

Game Developer's Conference - My...

This year’s GDC has been totally feeding my nerdly bits with insanely good prospects. Though...

Has the military found proof that we are all...

[National Geographic] Potentially Habitable...

[net.music] 1 Bit Wonder

Always less than you

In Search of Tumblr Themes

nostrich: For the less technically-inclined, the search for a more original and unique theme can be...

CDM >> Hands on with Livid's new Ohm...

Lichtenberg, and his figures...

I sometimes get questions from people asking me about what inspires me to make the mathy digital...

Soma.fm - the best Free Independent...

Phylum Sinter - The Modular Penguin March Just a short dream-inspired thematic for this Valentines...

paulgiacherio: PicLens» Holy crap. Found via Bijan. ...

-Benjamin Franklin[as part of his original proposal for the...

Fixed Action Pattern (FAP).

Who knew? what a world.

Pluto enters Capricorn [2008-2024]

From Maurice Fernandez’s Evolutionary Astrology: “The mighty dwarf has moved into...

Birdboy in glisspace

yep, yep yep yepyepyepyep.

collector growths

‘Punch Bout‘ From The Perry Bible Fellowship.

Giant Machines That Eat Garbage (and the...

“The worst enemy of agile anticipation is our human...”
— David Brin, author.

The Exchange

Everything that is; everything, EVERYTHING that is life is a part of a grand exchange. Chemically,...

Phylum Sinter - 'Beside You Through The...

Revelator Octus

Lunation 2.2008 [Chinese New Year Edition]

Jan

synaptic landscape [detail]

On noise and signal degradation -

As character is said to develop over timelike fine wines in whisky barrels we agetake in traumas...

synaptic vortices [detail]

FCC Complaints to 'The Daily Show' [pdf...

Your genes are either magnetic or telepathic,...

Humans Force Earth into New Geological Epoch

Report: American Schools Trail Behind World In Aptitude Of Child Soldiers.

a suggestion, aesthetic

unchecked development

Wanted: One hyperdimensional gateway through...

…”There’s the television - it’s all right there, ALL RIGHT THERE - Look,...

Without A Sound.

Strange Attractors 2 [detail]

Manda. -Original inspiration for the track ‘Torpal...

A Guide to the Perplexed Interdimensional...

“i love c.a. todd. today i wished on the full moon that he...”
— Keep wishing! i’m with...

yes. — ausetus The video of that song i had in my head has that old paedophile from Family Guy in...

(do not) push the red button.

Envy Saturn 5 Rocket Booster, capable of 1,000,000 lb....

Money Well Spent The Hubble Telescope, Smithsonian National...

Hail to the Sheik. Washington, DCNovember 2007

Dave’s Herb Garden warm months 2006

everything is finite.

POWERS OF TEN - A FILM DEALING WITHTHE RELATIVE SIZE OF THINGSIN THE UNIVERSE AND THE EFFECTOF...