• @templesmith I’m actually planning a project about Henry VIII’s later days when he was basically Mad Cheeseburger Henry VIII in his cart… #

1. Day#93, 2. Boris I, 3. Four Parts Sandalwood, 4. Unprepared, 5. 16:27 Edale, 6. Over Italy, or possibly Austria

A peculiar, manic-depressive little story about Hollywood, the way men think about women, and being Russian.  In three parts.  1 2 3.  Shepard remains a gloomy, drunken wizard with language.

• Algorithmic Architecture | Smashing Telly – A hand picked TV channel
  "Natural things,including DNA and medieval towns are more like aperiodic crystals, with variable repetition. To create these structures, requires an algorithm rather than a single equation"
  (tags:video architecture design sci )
• Heuristic England: The Cult Of The Ku
  ?The Black Magic in China Known as ku?
  (tags:magic )

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  Irene Kaoru

• @BrianReed Suck it up, hippie. Sarah Palin could break your limp wrist simply by flexing her womb. You Yank owl-huggers are in for it now. #

Siege’s occasional diary of his people’s recovery from Katrina never fails to give me a chest pain. Three years on, in the teeth of Gustav, he’s posted a new instalment:

Russell had nineteen brothers and sisters, in a family poorer even than mine. Now he lives in a FEMA trailer on an abandoned lot with two dogs, a bunch of Katrina junk, a statue of the Virgin Mary he hand painted, and an old school bus backed up to a canal cruised by alligators, which he fishes out of for meals. His sister was murdered in New Orleans last week.

1. Box purses, 2. something in blue, 3. Following in the Shadow., 4. THB:M3, 5. Lovefest, 6. photo.jpg

I’ve always wanted to create my own ghost. One idea I had was to buy a Russian Cosmonaut suit and set up some fake debris in a field, late at night. Then from the early morning, donning my outfit I would wander around the field near my crash landed module, looking terribly dazed.

— English Heretic

• Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters
  "Hipsterdom is the first ?counterculture? to be born under the advertising industry?s microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations."
  (tags:culture bullshit )
• Hurricane Tracker – - MSNBC.com
  A tracker for Hurricane Gustav, built by Stamen.
  (tags:web dooooom )

• In case you missed it, Gov Sarah Palin of Alaska is McCain’s VP nominee, according to CNN newsburst. NRA, pro-life, confused on gay issues. #
• @radiomaru tweets (to someone else): “you’re a tiny little scrawny piece of shit! I weigh like eight million pounds. I am ten suns.” #

Would have been this week.

• Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that won’t edit, that can’t be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time.

  – Tarkovsky

In which we speak of holidays, vole blood and rubber gloves.

1. Dusk over Hindukush, Romboor , 2. Obama, 3. Left, left, left – right – left, 4. An Old one., 5. we are the future, 6. Eye

• Lockerbie evidence not disclosed
  Scottish police had information that might have changed the outcome of the Lockerbie bombing trial, a BBC TV programme has learned
  (tags:war crime pol )
• ‘Lost towns’ discovered in Amazon
  The remote Amazon river basin was once home to densely populated towns and villages
  (tags:history )

• Ways in which the future has failed me: even now, no-one will sell me a dolphin sandwich. #
• Happy birthday @LibbyBulloff ! #
• I’d pay real money to hear Obama open his speech today with “Brothers and sisters, I have a SCHEME…” #
• @mckelvie I’m Warren Ellis, and I am not like the others. I am not actually your friend at all. #

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• For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

  – Brian Eno

• good morning 7001 people following me. I need a name for you other than “7001 people following me.” so today you are the Meatbag Armada. #
• Pfff. #