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11 Jul 08

In Parentheses

In Parentheses is a collection of many ancient, medieval and classic texts from all over the world, many of whom are hard to find anywhere, let alone on the internet. There are translations from Greek, Old Norse, Medieval Irish, Japanese, Incan, Old Frenc

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06 Jul 08

Web Gallery of Art, image collection, virtual museum, searchable database of European fine arts (1100-1850)

The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism and Romanticism periods (1100-1850), currently containing over 20.300 reproductions. Picture commentar

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29 Mar 08

PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things"

PingMag is a web magazine about art, design, technology, and more. It is based entirely on our own personal likes and interests, and we hope it will be built up, and expanded on, by thoughts and comments posted by you, our readers. Our interests are broad

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03 Feb 08

Superflat Japanese Postmodernity

This text was originally lectured at the MOCA gallery at the Pacific design Center, West Hollywood, on 5 April 2001.

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29 Jan 08

THE ASSAULT ON CULTURE: UTOPIAN CURRENTS FROM LETTRISM TO CLASS WAR by Stewart Home.

The entire contents of this book (except the index) are available for free on this site, but you can still buy hard copies should you so wish. This book was written in 1987, things have moved on since then (both for the author and in the world), so please

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07 Jan 08

The New York Times Magazine - Features - Columns - Style - The New York Times

For the seventh consecutive December, the magazine looks back on the passing year through a special lens: ideas. Editors and writers trawl the oceans of ingenuity, hoping to snag in our nets the many curious, inspired, perplexing and sometimes outright il

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04 Jan 08

[0801.0337] The Physical World as a Virtual Reality

This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the physical world. The virtual reality concept is familiar to us from online worl

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10 Dec 07

Ever been on a train this nice?

Believe it or not, the photo above is of a train interior in japan.

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18 Oct 07

A Saucerful of Secrets | Articles | Features | Fortean Times UK

Step back 40 years to the heady days of 1967 as Andy Roberts explains how the Summer of Love was in part shaped by the hippie movement’s fascination with flying saucers.

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05 Oct 07

Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This page is for Wikipedians to list articles that seem a bit unusual. These articles are valuable contributions to the encyclopedia, but are somewhat odd, whimsical, or something you wouldn't expect to find in Encyclopædia Britannica.

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03 Sep 07

QVIZ Project

QVIZ will research and create a framework for visualizing and querying archival resources by a time-space interface based on maps and emergent knowledge structures. The framework will also integrate social software, such as wikis, in order to utilize know

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28 Jul 07

The Great Happiness Space Documentary 2006

A Jake Clennel documentary on japanese "host bars." Japanese w/ english subtitles

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20 Feb 07

Yet Another Digital Tradition Page

Here's yet another index of the Digital Tradition Folk Music Database

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25 Jan 07

mike-love.net - Genealogy of Influence

A visualization of the connections between the most influential writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians of Western culture.

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12 Jan 07

Machine elf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(also known as fractal elves and self transforming machine elves) is a term coined by the writer and philosopher Terence McKenna to describe the entities that he claims one becomes aware of after having taken tryptamine based psychedelic drugs, especially

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