Shock them, impress them, and melt

(via the junk monkey on flicker)

Sinofuturist.

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Erica T. Carter & human Parnassus.

The arts of fascination--can & will be automated; the arts of deliverance--never.

Cloud Time.

    "Buffalo

He knew how he would die. We all know that.
Some day the same as any other he'd be chewing his cud
And ruminating about the larger weather patterns
The clouds spoke of when Whump! like the trump of Doom
He would be stampeding to his death
With the whole country around him, their pounding
Hooves sounding like the drums you sometimes
Heard when the herds of horsemen camped
In some canyon close by, the very canyon it might be
In which he was destined to die.
Aiee! they would cry, or words to that effect,
As they sat by their fires beating on the stretched skin
Of one's relatives, which was their way
Of saying We won! We won! They were
An intolerable presence and he prayed
That someday someone would come, someone
Even nastier, someone even worse than the wolves,
And kill them, level their smelly villages
And cover them with rocks, like the rocks
He would lie on and rot when it came
His time to join the great stampede and die."

--Tom Disch (2008)

Santa Muerte.

"Autechre have always implied a kind of future music - as in, a sound that points to a possible futuristic norm. Now that this future has finally arrived, listening to Autechre from the angle of the present is akin to enjoying a favourite meal rather than trying to acquire a difficult new taste." --Charlie Frame

Crowdsourcing Pluto's 2 new moons.

"It's hard to imagine anyone else playing whale-summoning tunes to an overflow canine audience at Bennelong Point." --review of recent Laurie Anderson performance (via Silliman)

Freckenberg.

"Part of the meaning is lost and the pronunciation sounds wrong if the [Polish diacritical] marks aren’t there." --Washington Post (via languagehat)

The Draco Kill Shot.

(via travelweekly)

Progress continues on the East Side Access project.