The Buckminster Fuller Challenge Idea Index is a database of entries submitted to the Buckminster...

The Selby features photographs, paintings and videos by todd selby of interesting people and...

* stasis: noun formal or technical a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium. Imagine a...

been a while since i spaced out... i wrote a brief article yesterday on my site @ ANTI/gen regarding the inaugeration, if you're interested... my favorite photo form yesterday: see ya, fucker.

A Servant of One’s master Is the Servant of One’s law The obedience to One’s state Is an obedience to One’s law The servant of One’s law Is the inevitability of One’s own outcome A single balancing of the inevitable creation A servient cause born of a single occurrence Is the inevitable cause of all reincarnations Not to be...

Scientists develop software that can map dreams || The secret world of dreams has been unlocked...

Optimism is a political act. Entrenched interests use despair, confusion and apathy to prevent change. They encourage modes of thinking which lead us to believe that problems are insolvable, that nothing we do can matter, that the issue is too complex to present even the opportunity for change. It is a long-standing political art to sow the...

to the bacteria on my fingertip how grand is my hand throwing a pot if it dies in the process is...

I built some goggles to experiment with strobe light induced hallucinations. At the moment they...

This is the fifth of a series of articles jointly written by Wildcat and Spaceweaver, summing our...

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets,...

This is a comment that grew too long - a continuation of the polylogue following Xárene's post, Social Networking Tools and Our Future Society It got me thinking about two experiences I've had recently. Love The first one involved someone that I met who had just moved to Europe 20 days before from New York. He moved here to be with his...

Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? The mind appears to be adapted...

This is a recent mention on Rocketboom The Epithelium Studio offers a specialized design...

Contemplate replacing the concept of believing with the concept of holding. It’s hard to drop a...

This is a rather neat example of crow intelligence. I don't think these are New Caledonian crows,...

The Portal* "Future Food - Meat without Livestock" focuses on possibilities for replacing animal products with products that are not derived from animals. These products can be divided into two groups: Vegetarian Meats, Non-Dairy Milk Drinks and Egg Replacements These products simulate or copy the animal derived products. There...

This is the fourth of a series of articles jointly written by Wildcat and Spaceweaver, summing our...

illustration for sochiski's powder ski www.sochiski.de all sochiskis are manufactured by rip'n wud...

This quote keeps on coming up around here: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. -Arthur C. Clarke The US army is actively directing research towards reading your thoughts for the purposes of "synthetic telepathy" communication. Your interpretation of the implications of this depend on how much you...

About heterotopias... Here is a text of Michel Foucault, that I found very interesting, even...

By definition, a conspiracy is a “surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more...

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model...

This is such wonderful pearl catalog and I've never heard about before! See what Kevin Kelly...

History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo. I thought this was a great video

Paper Disorder is an interesting and experimental film by Marcus Tomlinson, made for an exhibition...

If you are interested on mobile devices and how this kind of devices or features are pushing out...

Abstractly explores the relation of nature, architecture and our ever-expanding...

A balloon-borne experiment has turned up a mysterious radio signal that seems to be coming from...

Back from my trip to New York, I could feel how the optimist and pride light the face of every New...

Searchme is a "visual" search engine that offers up a preview of the pages your search...

When we think of minds we think of intentions. Intentions that lie behind acts, acts that unfold at the recourse of agents: agents with minds. In short, when we look out at the world we see objects that are acted upon and entities that do the acting. This clear cut distinction between the 'done upon' and the 'doer' appears stable, but it hides one...

The Vertical Farm Project, led by Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University, aims to deal...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

Loosely translated from Chinese as : "May you live in interesting times". This is the...

This is the second in a series of articles jointly written by Wildcat and Spaceweaver, summing our...

Two realms of self-enhancement In three(ish) parts: Introduction The concrete realm The...

Through technology the span of human life will increase, approximating towards immortality; in...

City of Words by Vito Acconci, 1999

A short part of a larger talk, what is interesting however is the distinct difference...

Frantically importing new information and ideas; editing, categorizing, and organizing for...

I wanted to see what Wikipedia had to say about our lovely community and noticed no one has made an article yet, imagine my surprise! I was gonna just start the entry but I haven't actually edited Wikipedia yet (oops!). This is a call to all who are able - please floss out the space collective infotites w/ a bangin wiki...

Walt worked out this spidronized space-filler: with its identical copies you can fill the space...

This is a 3d rendering work in progress. The black sphere meant to be just the position of a...