Greg Smyth:

Like anyone with the requisite half a brain, I’m eagerly awaiting the new Polyphonic Spree album. However, it may have escaped your notice that they’ve ditched the flowing robes of days gone by for an altogether more paramilitary outfit. Like ass-kicking ninja medics, see?

You just shouldn’t send novelists out into the wild like this:

I am in a Marriott in Charlotte, NC, and just had the traumatic experience of picking up a bottle of orange ginger body lotion and spreading some over my face, only to discover that it smells exactly like PLEDGE.

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• The trouble with being human these days: Identity by Zygmunt Bauman
  liquid modernity
  (tags: mind)

“…it turns out the locals don’t like it when I demand that they eat the brains of their kills to take their strength…”

* The ENGINE Network

* The apparently never-ending BATTLESTAR GALACTICA thread

* What did the Engine’s comics creators release in 2006?

• Scientists discover ‘shadow person’ | COSMOS magazine
  Ever feel as though you’re being followed? As if someone is behind you, shadowing your every move? It might be your ‘shadow person’, created by unusual activity in a specific brain region
  (tags: sci weird neuro)

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Sunset on the river in Phnom Penh: Melissa’s in Cambodia, consulting on the use of mobile technology for organizing and human rights work.

(policeApology)

…awards programmes nominate you in the Roll Of Honour category. Also known as the “half the nominees in this category are dead” category.

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• LiveScience.com – Pressure of Light Can Move Liquid
  Scientists have figured out how to create a jet of liquid with nothing but the power of light.
  (tags: sci)
• world energy map 1998
  (tags: eco sci)
• Superbrutalism: An Architecture for Muzak
  “Superbrutalism exacerbates the logic of capital flows to simultaneously amplify and subvert them”
  (tags: design culture)
• ESAD PV29 Neville Brody
  Neville Brody talk, Portugal Mar 2007
  (tags: video design)

The American TV show WIFE SWAP is looking for Goth families to be on their show. So, y’know, you too can be the kind of person who sells their family as well as their dignity to network tv reality programming.

Hot on the heels of flavoured cocaine, something for the young tweaker in your life.

the eyelid creator’s impulse

Originally uploaded by tetheredto.

(Sakura 2007)

“One of the most bizarre weather patterns in the solar system has been photographed at Saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.”

“Chinese people have condemned a project to build a 13-mile long dragon along a mountain ridge outside a city.”