linkfarm XXXXVI

1. Congressional Research Service report (PDF) on total cost of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom

2. Something else we could have done with the money

3. Manifesto on why people do crafty things, by Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (aka Hobby Princess)

4. Flickr set of strong visual forms

5. Homepage of neo-geometric conceptualist Peter Halley

6. Data is Nature calls this the most beautiful search result page you will ever see

7. Vertiginous animation of four-dimensional fractals ("quaternions")

8. Book on syntax by Virginia Tufte

9. Notes on word-sized graphics by her husband, Edward Tufte

10. Juliana Spahr blog-post that includes her list of "Writing of the Last 10 Years that is Not About Poetry but that Poets Should be Reading Anyway Because It Might Change What They Are Writing About"

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
10:54 AM
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linkfarm XXXXV

1. The Athanasius Kircher Society has a blog archiving many entertaining varieties of human weirdness

2. Logic puzzle of unclear origin may be map of nine-dimensional hypercube?

3. Bunnies

4. Cactus beings

5. Elaborate quiz reduces your identity to a colored strip

6. Gridlove: collaborative photo-arranging project

7. Art and text by Jim Woodring appearing regularly at his blog

8. "How to write about Africa"

9. Odd device key to system of outsider logic

10. A brief history of color systems (with diagrams)

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Wednesday, June 21, 2006
4:24 PM
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1. "Hearing Type," an article on the aesthetics of "kinetic typography"

2. Danielle Aubert used Microsoft Excel to produce semi-generative drawings

3. Les Stewart typed the numbers from one to one million (in words)

3. Takeluma, a symbolic phonetic alphabet designed to investigate the "cross-sensory mapping [that] may take place when we use language"

4. Inform 7 is a language for writing interactive fiction which uses natural English-language sentences instead of code

5. Processing 1.0 is a language "for people who want to program images, animation, and sound"

6. What is the saddest thing you own?

7. PDF: Connections between the 50 most linked-to blogs

8. PDF: Who has nukes, and how many?

9. Tenorikuma is a coffeeshop run by Sanrio raccoons

10. Princess Raccoon is a Japanese film

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Friday, May 12, 2006
4:37 PM
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linkfarm

1. Fractal Economies "[grinds] language through the mill of photocopiers, found material, collage, printmaking, frottage and Letraset"

2. Outside Voices publishes "experimental text-based art"

3. Chicago radio-documentary organization seeks 99 two-and-a-half-minute radio plays

4. Some facts about China (from Harper's)

5. Archive of suppressed or obscure 9/11 data

6. "Fur Moan," a poem

7. Project file: build an audio looper (under $30)

8. "Remarkable devices and technologies" debuting in Iraq (via Subtopia)

9. Flickr set of cool paper sculptures

10. Chaos magician Peter Carroll is now putting his mind to bizarre theoretical physics

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Monday, May 01, 2006
11:21 PM
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linkfarm

1. Trevor Paglen is an artist / geographer investigating the landscape of prisons and secret bases

2. Cryptome is an organization doing much the same thing

3. Fascinating article on the infrastructure and virtual infrastructure of national security

4. Subtopia article on "genealogy of the car bomb"

5. Tikkun article on transgendered Jews

6. Why we have the Spring conference where we do (found in this archive)

7. Too bad this magnetic katamari is sold out

8. Ditto this supercute panda

9. Friends of Vast Industrial Kafkaesque Concrete Structures

10. Last poem ever written by Samuel Beckett

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Thursday, April 20, 2006
12:34 PM
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linkfarm

1. Video depicting touch-screen interface of the future

2. Taxonomy of notetaking styles

3. Searchable database of "difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources"

4. Tool for the construction of "corporate ontologies" [?]

5. War on Terror file: Pew Research Center survey says Americans, especially Catholics, approve of torture

6. War on Terror file: unmanned drone planes to monitor US skies

7. Lab-grown bladders (thanks Angela)

8. Attention demographic marketers: Generation X is entering middle age

9. 9-11 conspiracy video (1 hour, 21 minutes)

10. 9-11 conspiracy origami (10 seconds)

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Sunday, April 09, 2006
3:34 PM
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linkfarm

1. RunMe.org, an archive of software art

2. Freesound, an archive of Creative-Commons-licensed sounds

3. FreeCulture.org: student movement inspired by Lawrence Lessig

4. Gpod: video blog, featuring torrents of Daily Show episodes but also a lot of avant-garde art and film

5. Startlingly cool photos of origami tesselations (found via Origami Tessellations, a blog)

6. Beautiful color plates from Owen Jones' The Grammar of Ornament

7. Introduction to geometrical tiling

8. Introduction to MIT Press' cleverly-titled New Media, 1740-1915

9. Lots of fun things to look at in Genevieve Gauckler's portfolio site

10. Exemplary blog Purse Lip Square Jaw is tracking the spread of the "internet of things" meme

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Friday, April 07, 2006
5:18 PM
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linkfarm

1. Information Aesthetics, a blog dedicated to data visualization

2. Bruce Sterling on "folksonomy": collectively-produced Internet-aided organization schemas

3. Tons of "information management" links from del.icio.us user Marc

4. List of 25 free fonts, most available for free download

5. More free fonts, these from Misprinted Type

6. Europe produces neuro-chips (thanks CJO)

7. 37 films (MPEG format) by Fluxus-related artists, spanning 1962-1969 via the always-astonishing UbuWeb

8. Historical overview of the U.S. Intelligence community

9. Centers and Peripheries in the World, a diagram (part of this essay

10. Art project: Spam as "diagnosis of cultural values"

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Friday, March 31, 2006
7:44 PM
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1. Amos Ori, of the Israel Institute of Technology, proposes doughtnut-shaped time machines

2. Simon Hoegsberg stopped strangers on the street and asked them what they were thinking

3. Interesting-looking book on lost civilizations (thanks CJO)

4. Mark Dery interviewing"rootless theorist" Mackenzie Wark

5. Alan Moore discusses V for Vendetta and his "gradually worsening relationships" with DC Comics

6. Unfiction is a forum site for discussions about augmented-reality gaming

7. Morbid infographic charting over 1,000 suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge

8. New Yorker article on Bill O'Reilly's "baroque period"

9. Notes on secret tunnels in Tokyo at Bldg|Blog, a blog dedicated to "architectural conjecture"

10. Danger! Timesink!: GrowCube

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
1:56 PM
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linkfarm XXXVII

1. Guide to shorthand and alternative handwriting systems (such as Blissymbolics)

2. 9-11, Tesla, sinister geometry: semi-coherent conspiracy video (7 minutes)

3. PDF listing design/engineering problems and the organisms that have solved them

4. List of various literary constraints (with examples)

5. Underwater hotels, man-made islands, biospheres: is Dubai the most science-fiction place on earth?

6. Phi in plants and animals

7. Brief Guardian article on "spam poetry"

8. Wikipedia on fragging and gibs

9. Data is Nature: delightful blog on computational and organic patterns and forms

10. Interview with French cartoonist / weirdo Moebius at defunct art/culture zine Prism Escape

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
11:55 PM
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linkfarm XXXVI

1. Beasts, a T-shirt

2. A Concise Dictionary of Middle English, via Project Gutenberg

3. MP3s from the interesting new label Ghost Box

4. Cogent Amazon reviews of obscure esoteric books

5. Frontline's chronology of the Bush Doctrine

6. Links to a pile of noise and experimental labels

7. Economist article on the intersection of online gaming and real-world economics

8. Issue #2 of Tony Tost's poetry journal Fascicle

9. Special Jackson Mac Low memorial issue of EOAGH

10. Anagrammatic map of Chicago's CTA system

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Sunday, March 05, 2006
10:58 AM
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linkfarm XXXV

1. The official rules for calling shotgun

2. The official rules of Milton Bradley's Dark Tower (1981) (via Hasbro's archive of about a billion PDFs of game and toy rules)

3. Tarot imagery in Pepsi One advertising (via Pop Occulture)

4. Strange-looking diagrams from strange-looking book (via Vortex Egg)

5. "Open-source warfare": the Iraqi insurgency as emergent system

6. High-pitched noise device repels teenagers only (thanks CJO)

7. The Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9-11

8. Jessica Hopper's love letter to Sufjan Stevens (and Chicago) in this year's Village Voice Pazz and Jop Poll

9. US Olympic skiers wearing futuristic body armor polymer (via Electro^Plankton)

10. William Gibson's unfilmed screenplay for Alien III (via this list of 10 great SF films that never existed) (thanks CJO)

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Saturday, February 18, 2006
6:26 PM
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linkfarm XXXIV

1. Experimental poetry journal Zafusy (and their nice links page)

2. Posse / clique of Chicago poets

3. E-books (PDFs) from Chicago poetry journal Moria

4. Perplex City, an alternate reality game with elements of a collectible card game

5. Electronic Frontier Foundation is suing AT&T for collaborating with Bush's illegal wiretaps

6. Geof Huth's Wikipedia bio of visual poet jwcurry

7. The Chicago Underground Library, dedicated to small press or self-published work

8. Working Difference Engine made from Legos

9. Illegal art: 20 mashups from last year

10. "The Uses of Cuteness": Douglas Wolk on five graphic novels

(Thanks to Boing Boing)

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Friday, February 10, 2006
3:17 PM
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linkfarm XXXIII

1. Interesting litjournal Chain is looking for guest editors to work on a book series

2. Blossomy, a lovely font of plant wingdings

3. Free fonts from German desingers Typografski

4. Channel Null, conspiracy-related weblog

5. Be on the lookout for hyperdimensional mantid intelligences

6. The Buddha Machine, a low-fi Chinese loop-playing device

7. Antwerp art-damage label Ultra Eczema

8. Bibliography of books on menstruation

9. Urban legend: Goatman

10. Super-psychedelic artwork from Reed Anderson

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Wednesday, January 25, 2006
10:23 AM
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linkfarm XXXII

1. Cute / psychedelic animals vomiting up hearts (drawn by Katy Horan)

2. Gentle rants about Narnia by Christian blogger Andrew Rilstone

3. 25 books from 2005, courtesy of the Village Voice

4. Some poems from the latest issue of Dana Ward's Magazine Cypress

5. Fascinating stories about working as a porn video clerk

6. Archive of digitized wax cylinder recordings (thanks Eric)

7. My favorite results from last week's "Draw Batgirl" meme: one, two, three, four, five, six

8. The memoir on which Syriana was based

9. Index of Folly, 2000-present

10. Collaborative "improvisational fiction" project seeks participants

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Wednesday, January 18, 2006
11:19 AM
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linkfarm XXXI

1. Deliciously intricate non-electronic task management system

2. Grim piece on the falling status of knowledge and expertise in America

3. The Institute for Figuring

4. Abandoned buildings around Philly

5. Abandoned buildings around Detroit

6. Family Circus cartoons with H.P. Lovecraft captions

7. The fifteen wealthiest fictional characters (according to Forbes)

8. Pool of texture photos

9. Annotated links accompanying the new Norton Anthology of Children's Literature

10. Great Steven Shaviro reviews of Hal Hartley's Girl From Monday and Charles Strosser's "outrageously manic" SF novel Accelerando

Thanks to Angela (#7) and Boing Boing (#6)

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Friday, December 09, 2005
12:08 PM
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linkfarm XXX

1. Mike Davis on the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans

2. Fascinating blog dedicated to crunching baby-name data (thanks Angela)

3. Anthology of avant-gardists "exploring narrative"

4. Cuteness + violence: Arielle Greenberg on "Gurlesque" poetry

5. Two new science-fiction novels [one, two] published by experimental / theoretical publishing house Semiotext(e)

6. A classification system for very small objects (thanks Laura)

7. Joseph Mosconi's notes on the Los Angeles Oulipo conference [one, two, three, four]

8. Another nice mail art blog

9. The Institute for the Future of the Book and their blog

10. Tom Judd filled one page in his sketchbook every day for the past year

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Friday, November 11, 2005
12:03 PM
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linkfarm XXIX

1. Sensory Deprivation / Dream Poetics, a book of collages/visual poems by Damian Lopes

2. Washington Post article on existence of global network of covert CIA "black site" prisons

3. Susie Bright critiques Scooter Libby's pornographic novel

4. Wikipedia entry on Godwin's Law

5. "extreme boredom punctuated by occasional horror" : notes on the future

6. Staggering urban churn in Beijing

7. Essay by Tony Conrad on trance and culture

8. Elaborate pencil drawings by Paul Noble

9. Elaborate collages and paintings by Fred Tomaselli

10. Information on back issues of collage / xerox art / visual poetry journal Xerolage

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Friday, November 04, 2005
2:01 PM
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linkfarm XXVIII

1. Meomi: taking the concept of "engineered cuteness" to the next level

2. All Men Like Birds Must Die, the sketchblog of illustrator Jason Sho Green

3. Gallery of visualizations of complex networks

4. Week of Otomo Yoshihide performances (Dec 25-30 in NYC at The Stone)

5. Photos of dumps, recycling yards, and masses of technological waste

6. Photos of lime-processing architecture

7. Christian cosmological infographics (circa 1919)

8. Bibliography of constrained works of literature and books about literary constraints

9. Ubuweb's Anthology of Conceptual Writing

10. Syllabus for Charles Bernstein's graduate seminar

5-7 (inclusive) were purloined from Boing Boing

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Sunday, October 30, 2005
1:02 PM
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linkfarm XXVII

1. Massive archive of scanned mail-art

2. Books in the library of Mark Lombardi

3. Danish Air Force kills Rudolph

4. Unicef kills the Smurfs

5. Technologies of paranoia

6. London exhibition of the "unseen art" of William S. Burroughs (one, two)

7. Implicasphere is a magazine of "cultural fragments" from the fields of "anthropology, fiction, folk legend, art, reportage, biography, philosophy, astronomy and hobby craft"

8. Manifesto of the Necronautical Society

9. Sketchbook pages from Kozyndan

10. A Beautiful Scrap Paper Project

(thanks to Angela (#3))

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Sunday, October 16, 2005
9:26 PM
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linkfarm XXVI

1. Bizarre comic from the acid-fried maximalists at Paperrad

2. Slick skateboard design + slick page design: the new Skate or Die catalog

3. What happens if we run out of hurricane names in the 2005 season

4. The usual sort of referrer log nonsense

5. Symposium on concrete

6. Web widget which randomly loads "favorited" Flickr photos

7. Nice showcase of dense collage-work

8. Serenity premiere tomorrow, so declare it: Joss Whedon Is My Master Now

9. Mike Davis, scholar of both cities and disasters, asks 25 questions about New Orleans

10. Game Game, a card game about game design

Thanks to Grand Text Auto (#10), Xymphora (#9), and the Make: blog (#6)

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Thursday, September 29, 2005
11:49 AM
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linkfarm XXV

1. New Nintendo controller works like a wand in 3-D space

2. Dartmouth unveils microelectromechanical teleoperated worm-bot (photos)

3. Mastermind, art/culture/design mag for hipsters/geeks

4. Visualization: cell-phone activity in Graz, Austria

5. Visualization: traffic and weather in Cork represented in knitting (photos)

6. Alogrithmic poem / performance piece by Jackson MacLow

7. If Roombas had personality: Dustbunnies

8. Links page from the Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts

9. Wishlist, a collaged notebook by Heinrik Drescher

10. ArtDorks: Pop Surrealism and other art-damaged visuals

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Saturday, September 17, 2005
6:22 PM
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linkfarm XXIV

1. Dances, Events, Puzzles by Fluxus poet George Brecht

2. Wikipedia article on "esoteric cosmology"

3. Bio and filmography of Surrealist collagist / animator Larry Jordan

4. Archive of Victorian fantasy-book cover designs

5. Books produced by avant-garde design house Emigre

6. Free fonts from the Cape Arcona Type Foundry

7. "This lighter was distributed for artistic purposes": Six Degrees of Smoking

8. Two issues of PDF-only photography/design zine Shout

9. [Relatively] cheap lithographs of startling beauty and intensity

10. Report on post-Katrina martial law ground conditions in New Orleans

Thanks to Kiwi (#10) and Carolyn (#4)

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Monday, September 12, 2005
12:19 PM
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linkfarm XXIII

1. Future Perfect posts on mobile phone "repair culture" in China and India

2. Demon Baby post on vending machine and porno shop detritus in Japan

3. Art-damaged album packaging and gig posters by Jelle Crama

4. Gnarly Photoshop collages by Nautical Almanac's Carly Ptak

5. What Me and You and Everyone We Know fan is complete without a ))<>(( T-shirt?

6. Interesting Comics Should Be Good post about cities in comics (Metropolis, Gotham, Marvel Universe's New York City)

7. Time to update your Eschaton predictions

8. 40 lies about the War on Terror

9. "Lalalalalalalalala Oo-hoo-hoo"

10. "Llama llama mushroom llama llama llama duck"

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Thursday, September 01, 2005
8:30 AM
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linkfarm XXII

1. Julie Shapiro's radiophonic arts blog

2. "Rural Decay" group at Flickr

3. Secret mix-tape drop-off points in Chicago

4. Kabbalistic themes in William Blake's The Four Zoas

5. Is the key to data organization to keep everything in one big file?

6. Fabulous art-damaged psychedelic drawings from Finnish "drawing club"

7. Titus Books, a publisher interested in "urban culture, thought-streams & the supernatural"

8. Concept: Continuous Partial Attention

9. New image-matter daily

10. Momus' LiveJournal

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Friday, August 26, 2005
1:05 PM
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linkfarm XXI

1. Summary of the current status of the narratology / ludology debate in the game studies community, via Greg Costikyian

2. How to make a daily planner / task organizer from an old Zip disc case

3. Tips for mastering audio in Adobe Audition

4. Department of the Obvious: Challenging masculinity makes men act macho

5. Decoding Incan twine computers (one, two)

6. Geek decorating: house mural based on a satellite photo of the neighborhood in which the house can be found

7. 50 People See: numinous aggregates made of 50 blended Flickr photos with the same tags

8. "Something between insect artifact, jewel and sculpture": collaborative objects made by Hubert Duprat + Trichoptera worms

9. Witty, geeky Wikipedia article on the "Bacon Number"

10. Related: The Oracle of Bacon at Virginia

Thanks to Angela (#4), CJO (#5), Boing Boing (#6), and Test (#7 & #8, which is included in a particularly good article on archives, scrapbooking, intimacy, and dust).

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Monday, August 15, 2005
10:49 AM
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linkfarm XX

1. Need a source of half-baked ideas? Try Halfbakery

2. Logan Darrow Clements wants to use eminent domain to build a hotel on the site of eminent-domain supporter Justice David Souter's home

3. Every once in a while, it's a good idea to ask yourself if you need to take the music-snob oath

4. I Roll Twenties, a T-shirt

5. William Gibson on the culture of remix and appropriation, in Wired

6. The good people at CrazyMeds.org give you straight talk about how to decode a patient information sheet

7. 1998 issue of a zine for cough-syrup / Drixoral abusers (includes poetry)

8. Nice timeline of hacking

9. Are trolls the new pirates / Vikings? Behold Finntroll

10. "Bar-bands lack storytellers": Justin Farrar discusses Comets on Fire via use of a dizzying welter of folk and/or rock subgenres

Thanks to Tiny Lucky Genius (#3), Boing Boing (#5), and Make: (#8)

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Thursday, July 14, 2005
7:52 PM
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1. Ian Philips' list of "glamorous nerd pornographers"

2. Satire of over-written Pitchfork Media reviews, by David Cross

3. Graffiti artist Bansky hacks the British Museum

4. Great Beams of Cinema, a list (w/annotations)

5. 36 million yen can now buy robotic exoskeleton

6. Magical Gay Christianity

7. MP3 by theremin maven Gwyneth Merner now available at Thaumaturgy

8. Unusual articles in Wikipedia, a list

9. Downloadable 2-CD compilation of manipulated field recordings

10. Is harrassing the employees of an animal testing lab terrorism? NJ says yes

Thanks to Carolyn (#3) and Angela (#5, #8)

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Saturday, May 28, 2005
2:04 PM
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1. Thurston Moore on the culture of the mixtape

2. Contemporary flaneur Lisa Salem plans to walk L.A.

3. Strange randomized comics: one and two

4. Weird cthonic T-shirt

5. Some info on how to get Excel to do fairly complicated grading tasks

6. MP3 archive of sundry field recordings

7. Article on androgyny in fin-de-siecle occult philosophy

8. Staggeringly difficult heavy metal cover-art quiz

9. Examination of electroacoustic seances and the radiophonic uncanny in Finnegans Wake

10. Tips on using cut-ups and collage in magical practice

Thanks to CJO (#5).

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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
11:27 AM
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1. Trailer for Serenity, Joss Whedon's Firefly movie

2. New R.U. Sirius book and accompanying blog

3. Cybernetic Eschaton still approaching

4. Quantum Noise, a weblog dedicated to noise / art / magic / mysticism / physics

5. Great top ten list from Ben Chasny, the man behind Six Organs of Admittance

6. Hilarious contest seeking the worst-designed 8-bit videogame

7. Free fonts from Fountain

8. Bastet, a Tetris variant (for Linux) which always sends you the worst possible block

9. I'll be sad to miss this experimental music fest in Quebec later this month

10. News about We Love Katamari, the forthcoming Katamari Damacy sequel

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
11:10 AM
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1. Sexy design on these club flyers

2. Death Giraffe, a T-shirt

3. New MP3 blog: Rap Nerd

4. Issues 1-65 of Dead Angel, an e-zine dedicated to underground metal / noise / drone

5. New interview with My Cat Is An Alien over at Foxy Digitalis

6. This page has links to the most popular giveaway MP3s on Amazon

7. Bad Ways of Thinking About the Body #1: the Monadnock Baton Chart

8. Download a track from the mysterious Origami Arktika from this page

9. Pitchfork Media primer on the Finland psych-folk scene

10. More psych-folk links and reviews

Labels: linkfarms

Saturday, April 23, 2005
6:53 PM
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1. Wholesome-looking teenagers performing an a capella medley of video-game theme music

2. Blissblog, from Wire journalist Simon Reynolds

3. Steven Shaviro piece on Attali's book Noise: The Political Economy of Music

4. Reference file: list of video game firsts

5. About a zillion elegant Flash pieces experimenting with systems and fractals

6. Intriguing abstracts from the Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art

7. Affectionate, spot-on obituary for Guy Davenport

8. Psychedelic drawings by Unica Zürn

9. Argument that comics are currently enjoying their Golden Age

10. Argument that human language proves the existence of God

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Sunday, April 17, 2005
8:31 PM
0 comments

1. Ways In Which She Could Have Blinded Me With Science, a list

2. Kawaii alert: Hello-Kitty-branded iPod Mini

3. Kawaii alert #2: T-shirt featuring a time-traveling cat-like robot

4. Full text of The Cloud of Unknowing, a 16th-century work of contemplative mysticism

5. Vectors, a hypermedia journal of culture and technology

6. National Geographic photos of Beard and Mustache Champions (via Angela)

7. Resource site for "Gevey," a fictional language

8. Jun Takahashi's fall collection looks to me like good old-fashioned sci-fi ninja girls

9. Episodes of Canadian science-oriented radio show (as MP3s)

10. Episodes of This American Life (as RealAudio)

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Friday, April 08, 2005
8:15 AM
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1. Coverage of Spore, the next Will Wright game

2. Life in America file: student fiction-writer jailed as terrorist

3. Normal Life is maybe the best of the new breed of diary-comics

4. The magical properties of tattoos helpfully cataloged as part of this fundamentalist Christian anti-tattoo rant

5. Schiavo fiasco as covered by Get Your War On

6. Amusing signage hack at drugstore garden shop

7. Delicious paragraph of abstruse physics-language

8. Rejected York Peppermint Pattie Commerical Blurbs, a list

9. Can cell-phones work as an e-book technology? Japan says yes

10. Avant Game is the website of Jane McGonigal, the woman behind last year's augmented-reality game I Love Bees

Thanks to Josh, Crystal, and Carolyn

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Saturday, March 26, 2005
10:26 PM
0 comments

1. Excerpt from Mark Dery's article on the psychogeography of southern California

2. Extensively annotated bibliography on the topic of Nazi occultism

3. Infighting in the post-Anton-LaVey Church of Satan

4. MP3s of a live set by the fabulous Matt Valentine & Erika Elder

5. This videogame zine has some great graphic design

6. Serenely morbid French animation featuring army of Kermit-like frogs

7. Enjoy the Dada mindfuck of these Pokey the Penguin cartoons

8. Al-Qaeda plot to destablize America by kidnapping Russell Crowe? Dubious

9. Wikipedia entry on the etymology of "pwned"

10. Rust as snortable psychotropic drug

Labels: linkfarms

Tuesday, March 08, 2005
5:23 PM
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1. New book about complex adaptive systems and Calvino's Invisible Cities

2. A great annotation of the first page of Don DeLillo's White Noise

3. Four lovely pages of visual poetry from this book

4. More visual poetics: DBQP, a weblog

5. The meta-commentary UK-only version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trailer

6. Long, interesting article on Google's financing and corporate structure

7. My sometimes-collaborator Ray Bertsch is doing a blog about food systems, sustainable agriculture, and community development

8. It might be fun to be an Assistant Professor in the History of Rock and Roll

9. Only one month left to enter the Diagram Chapbook Contest

10. The Guardian's Games Blog links to ten "unmissable" pieces of "New Games Journalism"

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Saturday, March 05, 2005
2:10 PM
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1. Two more quality MP3 blogs: 'Buked and Scorned, The Of Mirror Eye

2. New Beauty, a glossy devoted to basically turning yourself into an Eloi

3. Renga In Blue is a great blog on the topic of interactive fiction

4. "Things That Are Bad," a Venn diagram

5. A list of fifty science-fiction or fantasy novels that socialists should read; with annotations

6. Interactive interface inventively graphing the rise and fall of name-popularity over the past century

7. Wonderful long interview with Alan Moore, mostly about his writing process

8. Fluxus Anthology CD archived at Ubuweb (RealAudio only)

9. The Wikipedia entry on the heavy metal umlaut is worth your time

10. Stoned? You may want to play with this mandala generator

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Thursday, February 24, 2005
7:23 PM
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1. Possibly one of the best comics ever on the topic of being stoned

2. With this one a close second

3. Steven Johnson uses DevonThink

4. Comics Should Be Good makes me want to go out and start reading superhero comics again

5. MP3 blogs I've been haunting lately: Fluxblog, Music For Robots, Said the Gramophone

6. And more: Spoilt Victorian Child, The Imaginary Jenny, The Mystical Beast

7. Make: is a fun-looking magazine about DIY technology projects

8. Frighteningly throrough Commodore 64 fan site

9. The Naropa Audio Archive features readings and lectures by important countercultural figures

10. Glenn Donaldson (of Ivytree / Skygreen Leopards / Thuja) contributes a top ten to Dusted

Labels: linkfarms

Saturday, February 12, 2005
9:35 PM
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1. Trailer for Crispin Glover's feature film What Is It?

2. "Fiddle Tune / Wodenchant," an MP3 by Askr, a mellow psych-folk act

3. Acid parody of trendy Apple product

4. Will the new Fantastic Four movie be better than the suppressed 1994 version? Questionable

5. Straight-faced news article of the week: 5th Circuit Rules in Rappers' Battle Over Phrase 'Back That Ass Up'

6. Networked_Performance, a blog on "locative media, augmented reality, distributed performance, environmental theatre, pervasive play, immersive gaming, [and] telepresence"

7. Nervousness.org, a mail art site

8. Fuck Corporate Groceries, a Chicago-centric food site which includes a list of independent Chicago-area markets

9. Crocheted models of hyperbolic-plane pseudospheres, with wonderful interview

10. Massive archive of leaflets dropped on Iraq

Thanks to Rich (#3) and CJO (#5)

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Saturday, January 29, 2005
1:44 PM
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1. What If: a graphical representation of one man's life, complete with bifurcation points

2. The Collected Essays of Robert Creeley, part of the University of California's eScholarship Editions initiative

3. This online quiz successfully guessed my age

4. Mass geekery at SmartPlaylists.com, a site devoted to tricks you can play with iTunes' Smart Playlists

5. The Hounds of No, awesomely weird and violent poems by Lara Glenum

6. Lullaby, an MP3 from noise artist Jessica Ryland

7. Chaorin Kombat, fantastically ugly noise-making in a battle arena

8. As Star Wars movies get worse, Star Wars-related products get better? Darth Tater

9. Brighton gives us 20 Jazz Funk Greats, a high-quality MP3 blog

10. These animals made from the Bembo fontset remind me of zoomorphic Islamic calligraphy

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Saturday, January 22, 2005
8:07 PM
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1. MIT plans to release a DVD of three pieces of generative cinema

2. Directory of MP3s by sound poet Christian Bök, including a version of Schwitter's Ursonate

3. Jittery Flash experiments by poet Brian Kim Stefans

4. I still haven't tired of parodies of hip corporate Newspeak

5. The Geek Hierarchy, abridged and unabridged

6. The Webcomics Examiner: "discerning criticism of an evolving artform"

7. Anacrucis is a site composed of 101-word flash fictions by Brendan Adkins

8. Geeky flowchart that helps you figure out how to deal with tasks

9. New blog from Brad of Foxy Digitalis

10. Are bloggers are allowed to protect confidential sources in the same way that journalists can? This lawsuit may decide

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Friday, January 14, 2005
11:56 AM
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1. The skeletal systems of well-known cartoon characters

2. Disclaimer stickers for science textbooks (via D. Bernhardt)

3. High geekery over at 43 Folders: Moleskine fans discussing Moleskine hacks

4. Hipster Bingo. Spot-on.

5. Mind Hacks, companion blog to the book

6. Ban Comic Sans is pretty much self-explanatory

7. Interesting article by former Naval commander on "feral cities"

8. Mark Dery, cultural critic, has just started a blog

9. The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book The Third Planet From Altair rendered as a complicated diagram (with essay)

10. Penny Arcade is running a serialized Christmas storybook starring Cthulhu

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Monday, December 27, 2004
10:11 PM
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1. Scans of some Matt Howarth comics, including an online-only issue of Those Annoying Post Bros.

2. Le Dernier Cri, publishers of "urgent, violently apocalyptic picture books"

3. The Perry Bible Fellowship: a comic that has located the exact point where bleakness and death become hilarious

4. Cute (but expensive) shirts designed by hip illustrators available at The Little Idiot

5. New issue of Chicago-area experimental music webmag Blastitude

6. Album-length set of Queen/hip-hop mash-ups, currently dodging a flurry of cease-and-desist orders from Disney

7. "Tornado at the Dairy Queen," a poem

8. Strange graphical scores by Terre Thaemlitz

9. For the High Weirdness file: John Hutchison, autodidactic physicist, using experimental energy to levitate and fracture metal

10. Buy Blue and Choose the Blue classify companies in terms of their political contributions

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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
1:52 PM
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1. Nation apologizes, world accepts.

2. The news converted into a spiffy interface of thumbnails and keywords

3. Strangely entertaining article about bugs in old interactive fiction games

4. New York Underground: delicious-looking book of subterranean photographs available this fall

5. Psychedelic Flash thingy by Kimiaki Yaegashi

6. For the game file: Sexy Post Office, a kind of sister game to Eat Poop You Cat

7. Macabre Creation is a gallery of Nakajima Nobuhiro's mind-rapingly intricate beasties and Tarot arcana

8. Scans of a draft chapter of Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte's next book

9. Some MP3s from Bay Area rust-magician Jim Haynes

10. Serialtext, a site devoted to novels-in-progress

Contributors to this week's linkfarm:
As Above, Blanketfort, Boing Boing,
CJO, KCM, and Weather Head

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Saturday, November 13, 2004
8:10 PM
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1. "Audia 2," an MP3 of microbeats and electronic noise, from Soft Abuse

2. Poetry Center of Chicago's 11th annual juried poetry competition is coming up

3. Nineteen American Waysides: field recordings of ancient 78s played at highway rest stops. A project of Doug Haire.

4. A selection of epigrams on writing / publishing / academia / etc. from "critifiction" writer Ron Sukenick (1932-2004)

5. Moodstats is an app for people who want to treat their moods as data

6. Single Canadians are standing by to marry an influx of retreating American progressives

7. Looptracks: diverting Flash environment full of noise and angular geometric wreckage

8. America is not blue and red but purple: exhibit A | exhibit B

9. Appreciation of Grant Morrison's run on New X-Men

10. Schedule for the fifth annual Outer Ear Festival

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Thursday, November 04, 2004
5:48 PM
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1. 25,000 living rat neurons in a glass dish learn to direct a flight simulator

2. Interesting review of McKenzie Wark's Marxist Hacker Manifesto

3. Famous figures doctored to look like members of KISS

4. Superbroncobattle, an illustration.

5. Army of citizen-journalists / global hive-mind wants to produce your news

6. Griffin Technology sells doo-dad that provides audio input options for the iMac

7. Eulogy for John Peel at City of Sound

8. Titles of Hardy Boys Books in Which the Villain Could Have Turned Out to Be George W. Bush, from McSweeney's

9. The American Conservative endorsement issue refuses to give unilateral endorsement to Bush, instead offering six different endorsements, for Bush, Kerry, Nader (!), Peroutka, Badnarik, and not voting

10. Jewelboxing: quality DIY CD packaging

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Friday, October 29, 2004
10:51 AM
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