April 2012
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“Proper posthumous writing, by contrast, is best understood as a post-social...”
– Bat, Bean, Beam: Posthumous
“[…] it’s creepy because it seems designed to eliminate all the parts of life...”
– Google’s New Glasses And The War On Serendipity : Monkey See : NPR (via new-aesthetic)
“A new study from researchers at Jay W. Forrester’s institute at MIT says...”
– MIT Institute’s Gloomy Prediction: ‘Global Economic Collapse’ By 2030 - Slashdot
“Yesterday(04-04-2012), first thing in the morning, a 77 year old pharmacist blew...”
– The Greek trigger: a note to arms. | continent.
“Though unlikely to pass any First Amendment test. Arizona’s Gov. Jan...”
– Apparently utopia can be legislated for: Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal - Slashdot
Slow Glass →
In his short story “Light of Other Days,” written the year I was born, science fiction writer Bob Shaw formulated the concept of “slow glass.” In brief, slow glass is glass that is so opaque that light takes as long as ten years to pass through it. From a practical standpoint, then, if you looked through a window made of slow glass, you’d see events that took place...
