I'm guilty.
I'm guilty for living the life I live, for having the things I have.
I'm as scared of global warming as most people, more than most people, probably.
But almost every day, you know, I get in a car, and I drive somewhere.
Somewhere that often is only a mile away from where I live.
I could get on my bike, put on my helmet, ride down...
At my school chapel; where I am forced to visit periodically, The Reverend recently gave a fairly blunt attack on Richard Dawkins 'The God Delusion'. While I haven't read his book, I had a fair few problems with some of the things with what our minister was saying. At the end of his speech he invited anyone with their own arguments to get back to...
If the world is determined:
Choice is an illusion. Faced with options A and B, it would only appear that we could choose between the two. In reality, our choice is no more a choice than seeing when light contacts our retina. Our character has been shaped by our genetics and environment, things out of our control (not that we have any), and will...
The great (now late) Arthur C. Clarke had a longstanding relationship with Playboy magazine: they published the first excerpts of 2010: Odyssey Two, as well as a plethora of his short works, musings, and technical papers. It wasn't until 1986 that the magazine ran a full-length "Playboy Interview" with Clarke, then living in Sri Lanka in...
This a nice collection of illustrations of the contemporary mind (my tittle), by David Plunkert and Leigh Wells. The illustrations were published in Time Magazine and other places.
Enjoy :-)
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The intensive use and reliance of tools is a uniquely human characteristic. The use of tools to assist in accomplishing tasks in the analog, and now as well in digital, contexts have become essential to human existence. Furthermore the tools that we use are a reflection of our actions, our skills, our culture, and most importantly, our identity....
So... on the day we didn't have class we went to MOCA for the Lawrence Weiner exhibition. Brandon was the only one that brought a camera so we all used his to take pictures as proof that we were there. We had to be sneaky about it though because there were all these security people standing around. Hopefully there were no security cameras from...
I wrote this for my Image-Word II (that's how my school calls it but it's mainly about postmodernism and its evolution). It is an essay on how cyberpunk sees our sexual future, how humanity will not cease to exist when we can start to make of machines our "new children" and heritage as they start to be humanly-programmed. I'm sorry it's...