February 2012
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Colour Cognition Arousal →
Red - Problem-Solving
Blue - Creativity
“You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” — Morpheus (Laurence Fishburn), The Matrix
If he took the blue pill he would have ended up remaining in the creative dream space, a...
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Top Five Regrets of the Dying →
Interesting insight into the good life.
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January 2012
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Philosophical Games →
Play some philosophical games. Learn the lessons of the ancient Greeks or explore your ethical compass with some trolley problems.
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Jorge Luis Borges
Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
I’ve been dipping in and out of short stories by Borges for the past few days. These contain some of the coolest ideas I’ve come across in a long time. I’ve rarely a chance to engage with difficult literature, but this is the shit. The above linked story is a rather humourous play on the historical necessity of a text.
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Milton Jones
After that I set up the british sheep census, but I fell asleep half way through that.
Milton Jones is one of my favourite one-liner comedians around today. Well worth a look.
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Nursery Rhyme, Motherfuckers.
Clickety Clickety Clack, Let’s go smoke some crack. The cracks all gone. I’ll grab my gun! Clickety Clickety Clack.
- AD
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Find out who you write like →
I write like Dan Brown
I Write Like by Mémoires, journal software. Analyze your writing!
Great. I write like Dan Brown. I’m actually a little insulted.
December 2011
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The Future of Art
- My son, do you want to hear something strange? – Yes! What? - You know the new tree painting we did on the garage last week.. Up until around the year 2050 people generally did not have paintings on houses! – What? Were they grey? - Well, yes, many were. Often they would paint villas in One colour, like blue or yellow, but very rarely in more than one or two colours and almost never any...
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Spaghetti
Duram semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields.
Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness?
Excerpt from The Year of Spaghetti by Haruki Murakami
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One-electron Universe
As a by-product of this same view, I received a telephone call one day at the graduate college at Princeton from Professor Wheeler, in which he said, “Feynman, I know why all electrons have the same charge and the same mass” “Why?” “Because, they are all the same electron!” And, then he explained on the telephone, “suppose that the world lines which...
November 2011
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Books! Books! Books! →
This is the best source of e-books ever. FACT.
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Watch‘beyond infinity’, a multisensory installation by french artist and theorist serge salat, interweaves mirrors, light, music, and fractal art in an architecture that conflates visitors’ perceptions of space.