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The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick wrote When Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which was made into the movie Bladerunner.  This is a comic by Robert Crumb telling the story of what sounds like a schizophrenic episode near the end of Philip K. Dick's life. 

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Counterscript for Telemarketers

Print this out and stick it by your phone.

Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance.

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Don't Buy Diamonds

I know I'm gonna get into trouble for this from someone, so please remember these are not MY views...  But it makes you think y'know.  Not me, other people.  I love diamonds, really.

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Daniel Eatock

Daniel Eatock is a designer and artist who specialises in making connections in a Malcolm Gladwellesque way (I read a review of Blink and I've taken the liberty of making the association).  His work is full of clever thinking and balancing acts - both metaphorical and literal.

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Couchbiking

A hilarious account of an adventure in New Brunswick on a brown leatherette couchbike.

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Social Fiction

I'm not sure how to describe this.  Here's a start: SocialFiction.org is a nexus of BacterioPoetics, or automatic writing.  It's a hallucinogenic experience jumping around the site digesting bits of it - something like William S. Burroughs genetically bonded with open source Dadaism.  Admittedly it's not an easy read...  The following are some of the bits that made some sense to me, to varying degrees:

On Automatic Writing
CrystalPunk Manifesto
Roomology
On the Cut-Up
Graffiti and the Obelisk

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Hard disc coffee table

This coffe table was constructed from the intestines of some computer storage thingy from around the 70's [ well obviously] But what I want to know is,where did it come from and where is all the rest of that stuff hiding..
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Mysteriously malfunctioning garage doors

Isn't this the beginning of a Douglas Coupland novel?
       

About ten days ago, a mysterious radio signal around Ottawa, Canada began blocking the operation of hundreds of garage door openers. (Background here.) On Thursday, the garage doors began working again. From CBC News:

The powerful radio signal causing the problem stopped transmitting on Thursday afternoon, around the time CBC News contacted the U.S. Embassy to ask if it knew anything about it.

The embassy categorically denies that it had anything to do with it.

The signal was being transmitted at 390 megahertz, a U.S. military frequency used by the Pentagon's new Land Mobile Radio System. The same frequency is used by garage doors openers, which started to malfunction around the city about almost two weeks ago. A similar problem has popped up around military bases in the States.

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slot car cam

Some guy (in New Zealand) put a wireless camera on a slot car...

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Soup Question

Here's a test:  Is the image of a) a red cabbage or b) a monkey brain?

Winner gets a bowl of soup.

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