Maybe on Earth, Maybe in the Future

theangelstakemysanity: pewdieschaoticbuscus: iam-eimaj: this...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:39:01 -0500

pewdieschaoticbuscus:

iam-eimaj:

this is a fridge, you put your shit in the gel and it keeps it cool, than you just reach in and take it out. the gel automatically reforms.

WTF

what happens if someone falls in

then they freeze and 1000 years passes and they fall out and get a cyclops for a girlfriend

valkyrie55: Where to even begin?

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:31:54 -0500

valkyrie55:

Where to even begin?

"The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or..."

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:20:33 -0400

“The atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.”

- Werner Heisenberg (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

"Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:51:17 -0400

“Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.”

- E.O. Wilson (via sciencefiction)

danielrehn: The “Graffiti alphabet” created and marketed by...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:10:01 -0400

danielrehn:

The “Graffiti alphabet” created and marketed by Palm, Inc. (1993) for text-entry with a stylus. (ᔥbetaknowledge)

What if tablet/stylus writing changes our alphabet? So, instead of reading the second set of symbols as equivalent to the alphabet, those symbols eclipse the current one. I do not interpret this as a negative thing, merely another step in the evolution of written language.

Autostraddle: Evil Disney Queens Are Doing It For Themselves

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 01:57:44 -0400

Autostraddle: Evil Disney Queens Are Doing It For Themselves:

pain-cake:

I thought I was going to go crazy if I had to hear one more person trying to defend the inherent feminist-y goodness of Disney heroines. They all suck. I love you Belle, but get a fucking backbone. Mulan, what the fuck is wrong with you? The emperor wanted you to be his advisor and you declined so you could go mope on a bench at home? What the fuck is that?

And don’t even get me started on Brave. Just because your character doesn’t end up married doesn’t make it a feminist story. Especially if your protagonist’s quest devolves into the desire for the freedom to “find love” rather than the freedom to just plain do whatever the fuck you want and be treated like, you know, a person instead of a fucking gift basket.

Now the ladies in this article, these are some BAMFs.

“Now that buildings have been wrapped in soft materials...

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:27:02 -0400

“Now that buildings have been wrapped in soft materials for years, BMW is proposing that cars could replace their bulky bodies with stretchy fabric – with a lot of elegant consequences for those pesky door lines, headlights – not to mention the entire vehicle could now act as an airbag.” (from Hyperexperience)

Tardigotchi, alife + microbiological organism = new kind of pet?

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:35:25 -0400

Tardigotchi, alife + microbiological organism = new kind of pet?

This puts everything into perspective.

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:44:05 -0400

This puts everything into perspective.

"Psychologists had spent decades searching for traits that exist independently of circumstance, but..."

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:50:42 -0400

“Psychologists had spent decades searching for traits that exist independently of circumstance, but what if personality can’t be separated from context?”

- The Personality Paradox | Wired Science | Wired.com (via wildcat2030) (via olena)

"Technology is weaving humans into electronic webs that resemble big brains — corporations, online..."

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:58:46 -0400

“Technology is weaving humans into electronic webs that resemble big brains — corporations, online hobby groups, far-flung N.G.O.s, suggests author Robert Wright. “And I personally don’t think it’s outlandish to talk about us being, increasingly, neurons in a giant superorganism; certainly an observer from outer space, watching the emergence of the Internet, could be excused for looking at us that way…. If we don’t use technology to weave people together and turn our species into a fairly unified body, chaos will probably engulf the world — because technology offers so much destructive power that a sharply divided human species can’t flourish.””

- Building One Big Brain « KurzweilAI (via smarterplanet)

nonsensefilter: TEDTalk Derek Sivers: Weird, or just...

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 21:52:25 -0400

nonsensefilter:

TEDTalk Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different?

Martian Time-Slip, A Sonnet by Space Canon

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:10:31 -0400

Martian Time-Slip, A Sonnet by Space Canon:

sciencefiction:

Canals lie void of water in the dust,
This is the dream…to stand here and see this:
See old men die wrapped up in tubes and rust.
A home on Mars. Beyond it, space, abyss.

Reality inside the schizoid mind?
Through blight and death, decrepitude and mold,
A child alone to future isn’t blind.
His madness lets him see himself grow old.

Beneath each man a horrible machine;
At least that’s how the world begins to feel.
Harrowing decay, veiled behind a screen
Am I tripping? Or is this arrow real?

On Mars the only men of wisdom say:
“Gubble, gubble, gubble, time rots away.”

They're Made Out of Meat, by Terry Bisson

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:12:10 -0400

They're Made Out of Meat, by Terry Bisson:

sciencefiction:

“Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?”

"Stewart Brand writes that “Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine,..."

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 01:24:53 -0400

“Stewart Brand writes that “Science is the only news. When you scan through a newspaper or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same sorry cyclic dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness, and even the technology is predictable if you know the science. Human nature doesn’t change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly.” We now live in a world in which the rate of change is the biggest change. Science has thus become a big story.”

- THE THIRD CULTURE (via myserendipities) (via wildcat2030) (via olena)

"When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you..."

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:59:56 -0400

“When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine many things with a confused mind, you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.”

- DŌGEN (via hypnoticyogi) (via fuckyeahzenmind)

"Literature says nothing to those human beings who are satisfied with their lot, who are content with..."

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:46:56 -0400

“Literature says nothing to those human beings who are satisfied with their lot, who are content with life as they now live it. Literature is the food of the rebellious spirit, the promulgator of non-conformities, the refuge for those who have too much or too little in life. One seeks sanctuary in literature so as not to be unhappy and so as not to be incomplete. To ride alongside the scrawny Rocinante and the confused Knight on the fields of La Mancha, to sail the seas on the back of a whale with Captain Ahab, to drink arsenic with Emma Bovary, to become an insect with Gregor Samsa: these are all ways that we have invented to divest ourselves of the wrongs and the impositions of this unjust life, a life that forces us always to be the same person when we wish to be many different people, so as to satisfy the many desires that possess us.”

- Mario Vargas Llosa, “Why Literature?” (via krishva) (via awritersruminations) (via teachingliteracy) (via booklover) (via lightintherabbithole)

I have never read a better stated manifesto of literature lovers. To truly read a narrative, is to become the narrator (or the narrative itself).

"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration,..."

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 22:53:49 -0400

“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the Weather.”

- Bill Hicks (via cammyyy) (via iamnothingami)

Metafiction! :)

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:12:33 -0500

Metafiction! :)