- Alan Moore: The art of magic
One of Mr Moore's more interesting interviews.
- The Taxonomy Of Sin | MORNING, COMPUTER
I really liked today's morning.computer, no other reason.
Tag: magic
Bookmarks for February 19, 2015
- Syllabus | MAS S66: Indistinguishable From… Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition
I would sell a kidney to attend this class.
Bookmarks for January 27, 2015
- After the flood | Projects | London Squared Map
Absolutely superb way of visualising London data.
- Filtered for magic and legitimacy (26 Jan., 2015, at Interconnected)
Several things in here, but mostly, I want to remember this one for the list of different kinds of magician banned in ancient Rome.
Bookmarks for May 25, 2010
- What have we today? (Phil Gyford’s website)
"A few inches of skirts, page three girls, children swearing, glue-sniffing and acid house parties. How will it end? Is this progress? " This has been my amusement for today.
- The Magical Menagerie
It turns out that sometimes good things *do* happen in Milton Keynes. I know, I'm as shocked as you. A new thing, by the people who did the Sultan's Elephant. If anyone fancies making a group trip out of it, Miranda and I have tickets for 3pm on the 31st of July.
Bookmarks for November 30, 2009
- Photo Box « MarkSelby
My god, this is just superb. Work of total genius. Combination of the ubiquity of the digital age with the sense of magic and wonder. Utterly brilliant. I want to give these to everyone.
- Pub 'fined £8k' for Wi-Fi copyright infringement – ZDNet.co.uk
Oh, look, you all know what I'm going to say by now. I'll just restate this: free/cheap public connectivity is far more important to Britain's future prosperity than the existing business models of the content industry are, and cases like this endanger that connectivity. I would like it very much if we stopped fighting the future because of a short term threat to the wallets of some rich people, and got on with embracing it so that we can have all new rich people.
- Daring Fireball: A Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs
Then number of times I've written, re-written, googled for, and generally had to implement one of these is verging on the insane. This one looks good, so I am noting it so I can come back and find it whenever this comes up again.
Bookmarks for February 9, 2009
- YouTube – Penn and Teller Explain Sleight of Hand
One of those things that requires a stack of practice, but something I wouldn't mind getting good at. I'm the sort of person that like to be able to see how the trick is done, so this sort thing is catnip to me.
Bookmarks for January 30, 2009
- Alan Moore Essay
"The roots of Art and all abstraction are in Magic, firelight, and the hidden world." – a short essay by Alan Moore about art and magic that I hadn't run across before.
- Anti-drugs ad
I may not neccessarily agree with them, but that doesn't mean this add isn't a very clever bit of design.
- SASLIK
I must eat here. It is very important.
- Prayers and Promises for Supernatural Childbirth: Amazon.co.uk
I saw someone reading this on the bus this morning. I mostly share this because I like to spread the incandescent rage around. What the fuck are these people doing on my planet, who is allowing them to breed, and why am I not yet allowed to simply kill them for being a complete waste of resources and hand their spawn off to people who will raise them to think for themselves?
Bookmarks for June 16, 2008
- The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels
Copright-violation-tastic, but still: the complete text of Alan Moore’s performance piece. Worth a read, and I’ll probably find it handy to refer to, but if you can get hold of the CD, that’s much better.
- Angel Passage
This, and the next one, particularly need to be heard to get them right – they’re very rhythmic pieces and the formatting on these does them no favours at all. Still, handy reference if I need to quote them at some point.
- The Highbury Working: A Beat Séance
It’s a dreadful armpit of a place, is Highbury. But scratch the surface…