Chemical Brothers & Flaming Lips, Golden Path

This is why they call him "The Boss".

Sui Generis

Yo-Yo Ma & Lil' Buck

L’appel du Vide

I want what I write to be like a buoy that marks a rock; I don't want anyone else wrecked on it. ~ Derek Raymond

Girls who rock. Sublime.

"Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100% winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors. Using a high-speed camera, the robot recognises within one millisecond which shape the human hand is making, then produces the corresponding winning shape."

In the future human beings are going to have to learn to how to control/suppress their physical ticks and tells because we will be constantly surveilled by high speed/resolution cameras controlled by high performance computers. Orwellian!

How the biggest landfill in the world got turned into a public park earning $12 million a year.

"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life" ~ Oscar Wilde

"The object of Art is to give life a shape." ~ William Shakespeare

Colophon

This website is newly created using the Python programming language on Google's App Engine infrastructure with the addition of Django for the template language and URL mapping functionality.

History of the Euro

"And when crises arise, economically disarmed nations have little to do but wipe away government regulations wholesale, privatize state industries en masse, slash taxes and send the European welfare state down the drain."

Part of a great series of short videos from Big Think.

"Then there was the centrepiece of the weekend spinning – the abolition of housing benefit for the under-25s. With the cosy middle-class assumption that mum and dad can always welcome back jobless twentysomethings, this sounded like a suggestion from a gin-soaked colonel in his clubhouse."

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819

"Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll toward a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap." ~ Derek Raymond