Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. This is the author speaking about his book, which I found to be very good.
Beautiful.
Robots and dogs: two things I like.
Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive Wearing
via BLDGBLOG:
Called The Transcendent City, the film documents what Hardy describes as “an autonomous artificial machine that extends across the earth adapting to the natural eco-systems it encounters while deriving its energy from the renewable resources available at each particular site. The systems desire is to maintain homeostasis within itself whilst maintaining homeostasis within the greater system, Gaia. Its processes are engineered on the molecular scale by nano technologies controlled by molecular computers that monitor and analyse the environment.”
13 Hours in 10 Minutes (via)
Lightning at 9000 frames per second (via kottke.org)
Writing in my office…
The End of History - the beer.
I must say I’m intrigued…
Cold Freezin’ Night by The Books
My walk to work…
David Lynch’s contribution to the Lumiere brothers tribute. I must have watched this fifty times when I was in school and haven’t been able to find it on DVD since. Incredible.
(via The Long Now)
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