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• Twitter Links On the trail of the wild and wonderful @Horse_ebooks

  Horse_ebooks is having a moment. Of the accounts that follow me on Twitter, half are spambots. About 15% are companies or organizations whose social…

  January 10 2012, 7:06am | Comments

• Tumblr chemistry

  November 30 2011, 6:33am | Comments

• Tumblr Priorities

  November 20 2011, 11:46am | Comments

• Link The Artist is Present (a video game about…

  Writing articles about video games is so much fun that we often have to stop, wipe the manic grins off our faces and find something really boring to do. Sometimes…

  September 19 2011, 1:39am | Comments

• Tumblr The Astronaut Suicides

  September 6 2011, 4:53am | Comments

• Tumblr The Segway Looter

  August 12 2011, 2:05am | Comments

• Link How to fix horror, Part I: Stop trying…

  My new book Shock Value: How a few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood and Invented Modern Horror, explores how horror went mainstream by revisiting the golden age that…

  July 5 2011, 9:34am | Comments

• Tumblr Gorilla suits

  June 19 2011, 4:40am | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space…

  May 3 2011, 3:13pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Alien space bats Alien space bats (ASBs) is a neologism for plot devices used in alternate history to create a point of divergence that would otherwise be implausible. [edit]Definition "Alien space…

  May 3 2011, 12:27pm | Comments

• Link Mad German Auteur, Now in 3-D

  The daring German filmmaker Werner Herzog once walked a thousand miles to propose to a woman. He once plotted to firebomb his leading man's house and once ate his own…

  May 2 2011, 4:35pm | Comments

• Link Gif and Take: dump.fm

  Dump.fm is a digital version of the old Surrealist genre of the exquisite corpse, a “show and tell” for the polymorphously perverse. The art of dump.fm is genuinely interactive. Social…

  March 2 2011, 4:05pm | Comments

• Link All the greatest scenes where someone talks a…

  Want to learn how to make a computer go foom just by talking to it? Here's a step-by-step tutorial from the master himself, Captain Kirk. And below, we've got every…

  December 22 2010, 3:16pm | Comments

• Link Art for animals

  Yesterday afternoon, Matthew Fuller gave a brief but fascinating overview of artworks that make a direct address to the perceptual world of non-human animal species. As you will see quite…

  November 27 2010, 7:44am | Comments

• Flickr Do you like our owl?

  September 30 2010, 2:26am | Comments

• Link Forget those creative writing workshops. If you want…

  One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into…

  August 18 2010, 2:13am | Comments

• Wikipedia Lamest edit wars - Wikipedia Occasionally, even experienced Wikipedians lose their heads and devote every waking moment to edit warring over the most trivial thing. This page documents our lamest examples. It isn't…

  August 16 2010, 2:46am | Comments

• Link SAME HAT! (tumblr)

  For folks that haven't checked it yet, the newly re-launched SAME HAT TUMBLR is up and running! The SAME HAT! Tumblr is curated and run by 8 contributors. It features…

  August 16 2010, 2:34am | Comments

• Link Porn for the Blind

  Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.

  August 16 2010, 2:27am | Comments

• Link The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.

  Every fall, I explain to a fresh batch of Ph.D. students what a Ph.D. is. It's hard to describe it in words. So, I use pictures. Read below for the…

  August 11 2010, 1:47am | Comments

• Link The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations

  We've dedicated this Power Grid to the most disgusting alien civilizations to ever grace the page, screen, or hard drive. Why is biology used as technology the easiest way to…

  August 10 2010, 6:56am | Comments

• Link The Smart List: 12 Shocking Ideas That Could…

  Warning: The ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble. We wanted radicals, heretics, agitators—big thinkers…

  June 6 2010, 3:54am | Comments

• Link My Famicase Exhibition 2010

  With its latest entries having just appeared online, the Famicase exhibition -- curated by Tokyo game culture shop Meteor -- once again proves why it's a yearly art/game highlight. The…

  May 13 2010, 5:25am | Comments

• Link Jesus Is A Dick

  This sort of acting out is typical behavior from somebody whose parents didn't give them enough attention growing up.

  April 28 2010, 1:35am | Comments

• Link Time Traveler Caught in Museum Photo? | forgetomori

  It’s the short description for the photograph shown at the virtual Bralorne Pioneer Museum, from British Columbia, Canada. The image can be seen specifically on this page (scroll down to…

  April 20 2010, 3:40pm | Comments

• Link 'It's time to let you hear the song…

  Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why.…

  April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments

• Portfolio hellograndad.com

  April 7 2010, 8:27am | Comments

• Flickr Nut Removed

  March 9 2010, 5:13am | Comments

• Flickr Special Man

  January 11 2010, 11:59am | Comments

• Tumblr Special Man

  January 11 2010, 11:59am | Comments

• Link Sleep Talkin' Man

  My mild-mannered English husband Adam lives quite a colorful existence in his dreams. Having benefited from hours of delight at his dead of night musings, I thought it was only…

  January 9 2010, 7:24am | Comments

• Flickr Acoustic Prosthesis

  December 17 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

• Tumblr Acoustic Prosthesis

  December 17 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

• Flickr Fool's Christmas

  December 11 2009, 6:00am | Comments

• Tumblr Fool's Christmas

  December 11 2009, 6:00am | Comments

• Flickr First Prize (as a side of bacon)

  December 5 2009, 4:48am | Comments

• Tumblr First Prize (as a side of bacon)

  December 5 2009, 4:48am | Comments

• Flickr not 100% effective

  November 23 2009, 8:17am | Comments

• Tumblr not 100% effective

  November 23 2009, 8:17am | Comments

• Flickr A Batman Christmas

  November 22 2009, 3:41am | Comments

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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
• The Creators Project interview: Sing Glitchy Karaoke Over The Web
• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
• RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2
• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”
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• Noise; Mutation; Autonomy: A Mark on Crusoe’s Island
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• Kipple and Things: How to Hoard and Why Not To Mean
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• Thoughts on art practice PhDs
• And There It Was
• “Everything on the Face of the Earth”
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