“We’ve got the Opera House, and it’s hard to say we are going to beat that, but from what I’ve seen we’ll have an equally outstanding icon at this end of Sydney”
Frank Gehry’s professional troll services will now cost you $150 million dollars.
The horse is inverse stereographically projected onto the hypersphere, rotated, and projected back again.
"How do we maintain human agency in a world that is being consciously programmed to defeat human agency?” These are questions that have existed at the onset of each new technology, and it’s the artist’s role to preserve human agency. So, “program to not be programmed.” Learning to program is not like learning to fix the car, it’s like learning how to drive the car. The future if you don’t know how to program is one where “the wallpaper might as well be the window.” But, learn programming as a liberal art and as a means to think critically about the world in which we live."
Douglas Rushkoff via Seven On Seven
Happy Easter
The first few times, it seems almost cute as it pops energetically out of its little slot in the side of the machine and whacks the back of my hand a few times. But then gets me a fourth time. A fifth time. A sixth time. I remark over the machine to my wife, “I do not want to be hit by the whip again.” She nods. The whip hits me again. “I really don’t want to be hit by the whip again.” Again, she agrees. And yet the whip, more than any other pain option, seemed destined for us. It hurts, and we laugh about it. You’ve got to laugh or you’d cry.
In Painstation, the standard play of Pong is altered via “power-ups” that are applied to the game with ever-increasing frequency. They raise the speed of the ball, make multiple balls appear at once, and much more. The result is that even a Pong champion wouldn’t be able to avoid having pain dished out. The gameplay swiftly moves beyond any semblance of a skillful activity toward a more-or-less constant stream of punishment.
I prefer to watch all my television shows in ASCII
Thanks, Jeremy Kyle. The feeling is mutual.
