How did I spend New Year’s Eve? I drank beer. I watched Justice League cartoons. I read Vonnegut. I fired a shotgun into the air. Not a bad way to send out 2008, symbolically speaking. Here’s some digital detritus:
“Mr. Dou found a savior 1,200 miles away, in the Song Mountains of central China, where the warrior monks of Shaolin have mastered the art of monastery marketing.” Can you get a black belt in that?
Filed Under [religion nytimes china tourism ]
“DE is a way of doing. It is a way of doing everything you do. DE simply means doing whatever you do in the easiest most relaxed way you can manage which is also the quickest and most efficient way, as you will find as you advance in DE.” A sort of everyday zen.
Filed Under [psychology ]
A resource for my favorite superhero.
Filed Under [Comics superheroes ]
A Flickr set.
Filed Under [photography flickr ]
A thoughtful look at what we talk about when we talk about video games and the geeks (and others) who play them.
Filed Under [Culture criticism videogames ]
“The idea to build a monument scale, multi-millennial, all mechanical clock as an icon to long term thinking.” Just having read Anathem, this sort of thing is on my mind.
Filed Under [science technology philosophy ]
Cinematical offers some short films that require a little audience participation, just like those books you remember.
Filed Under [movies postmodernism ]
To Your RSS Reader
To Your Technorati Favorites
To Your Del.icio.us