• Stamps depicting “cryptids” and metorites: Pib’s Virtual Stamp Collections. via.
• Story: Five European research institutes are collaborating on the new ties project to create a 21st-century brave new world – one populated by randomly generated software beings, capable of developing their own language and culture. via.
• Enjoy the madness which is Peces sincronizados or synchronized fish. via.
• Erik Larsen mourns the loss of comic book sound effects. via.
• ...It makes sense to reconsider how the modern scientific understanding of the mind emerged. The Age of Neuroelectronics.
• Was in St. Marks Books yesterday and a little “zine” of sorts caught my eye done by one Lief Parsons. Canadian born illustrator living and working in Brooklyn, best I can tell. Some good work. A few, in their whimsical simplicity, remind me of the glory days, others are smack on the trending-down “naive” penciled style (as above). All in all a fine browse. Also of note is his well done signifiers project.
• Old Yeller. The illustrious history of the yellow legal pad. via.
• Everybody knows at least one. Creative department Douchebag by Pete Johnson. (Thanks Kurt.)
• Adding inter-species incest to injury for evolution rejectors. Our human ancestors were still interbreeding with their chimp cousins long after first splitting from the chimpanzee lineage, a genetic study suggests. How many times does the Prez need to say it? NO human animal hybrids!
• Somewhere at the top of the Hundred Acre Wood a little boy and his bear play. On the surface it is an innocent world, but on closer examination by our group of experts we find a forest where neurodevelopmental and psychosocial problems go unrecognized and untreated. Pathologies in Winnie the Pooh. via.
• Enjoy Siberian artist Marina Bychkova’s porcelain and polymer dolls. Nice. via.
• Step by patient step, one man is drawing ever closer to the real Da Vinci mystery: tracking down the master’s greatest painting, lost for four and a half centuries.
• Got P.K.D? Download a torrent of The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick.
• Admiral Byrd’s trip inside the hollow Earth: Fiction or fiction? via.
• Shamans and ordinary people of American Indian tribes undertook dangerous missions to meet their spirit guides. The Fortean Times on Vision Quests.
• How a faceless, underground collective of scientists has helped determine the fate of the American empire. The Jasons. via.
• Like a bird, like a plane, like a guy in a funny outfit jumping off a cliff… Base jumping with a twist.
• Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell.
• Deafness in Disguise Concealed Hearing Devices of the 19th and 20th Centuries. via.
• We really don’t have proof that black holes exist so here’s a new theory: dark energy stars.
• Incest, fratricide, iniquity, murder, mayhem, and breathtaking beauty: Alexandria on dipslay in Berlin via treasure hunter Franck Goddio.
• Darwin, Zola, status groups, hippies, hip-hop, Jose Delgado, the yankees, the beginnings of speech, and “all you’ll ever need to know about the human beast.” Tom Wolfe and Homo Loquax. via.
• A theory of prostitution (pdf). Using economic models to answer the question: Why is it that prostitution is so relatively well-paid?
• Wikipedia entry on the so called Illusion of control. via.
• Keeping it surreal: “In the 1920s Georges Bataille’s art magazine Documents embraced all that was “soiled, senile, rank, and sordid” in western civilization. Its radical message is as fresh as ever.”
