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David Firth's Fat Pie

friend sent me a clip from this website.

Bizzare, sick and darkly humorous stuff...I like:)

http://www.fat-pie.com/

Unfortunate Animal of the Month Club

Something interesting to subscribe to: A mutant plush toy in the mail every month.

"It has come to my attention that more often than you would think, folks are opening a box to find a hairy or furry bundle and assuming it’s their creature. Unwrap it, fellas!! When I say the wrappings are odd, I mean sometimes you have to cut the bear right out of the clutches of odd things sometimes… if it’s not DEFINITELY an animal, keep looking. And always examine those rabbits etc for hidden features, sometimes they will mutter or sing when pressed, and leave no safety pin pinned. If anyone sees this and liberates a beast, please email your tale to me—it’s happened twice that I personally know of, and for all I know a dozen of you have been silently fuming and cursing my name."

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Customised iPod Shuffles

A gellery of customised (and photoshopped) Japanese iPod Shuffles.

some notebooks

 

Not mine, just some I found googlefishing.

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... ticking & ticking & ticking

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

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Postal Experiments

by Jeff Van Bueren San Francisco, California

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humanclock.com

A different picture for every minute of the day. 

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A Pencil Odyssey

It's a game.  You are an ant.  In the game I mean.  I played to the end and won, so it must be rigged or something.  It's to do with the D&AD awards so if you are in advertising and your boss looks over your shoulder you have plausible deniability.

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what do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?

from edge.org...

Great minds can sometimes guess the truth before they have either the evidence or arguments for it (Diderot called it having the "esprit de divination"). What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?

The 2005 Edge Question has generated many  eye-opening responses from a "who's who" of third culture scientists and  science-minded thinkers. The 120 contributions  comprise a document of 60,000 words.

There's a focus on consciousness, on knowing, on ideas of truth and proof. If pushed to generalize, I would say it is a commentary on how we are dealing with the idea of certainty.

We are in the age of "searchculture", in which Google and other search engines are leading us into a future rich with an abundance of correct answers along with an accompanying naïve sense of certainty. In the future, we will be able to answer the question, but will we be bright enough to ask it?

This is an alternative path. It may be that it's okay not to be certain, but to have a hunch, and to perceive on that basis. There is also evidence here that the scientists are thinking beyond their individual fields. Yes, they are engaged in the science of their own areas of research, but more importantly they are also thinking deeply about creating new understandings about the limits of science, of seeing science not just as a question of knowing things, but as a means of tuning into the deeper questions of who we are and how we know.

It may sound as if I am referring to a group of intellectuals, and not scientists. In fact, I refer to both. In 1991, I suggested the idea of a third culture, which "consists of those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are. "

I believe that the scientists of the third culture are the pre-eminent intellectuals of our time. But I can't prove it.

John  Brockman

edge.org

Gallery of Really Bad 3D

The image is from the Gallery of Really Bad 3D.  It's one of the better ones.