Please enjoy: links for 08/20/10

Please enjoy: links for 08/06/10

  • extracts of local distance “Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.”
  • How facts backfire — The Boston Globe “The last five decades of political science have definitively established that most modern-​​day Americans lack even a basic understanding of how their country works.”

    Is all this new research into cognitive biases and the myth of free will just laying the groundwork for some future

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Captain Smash Adventures #101

So I’m sitting on the floor amidst all these half-​​unpacked boxes in my shitty motel room by the highway, the stripper I’ve been “running into” on a pretty regular basis idly picking a scab in my hand-​​me-​​down armchair.

We’re waiting for my recently-​​ex-​​wife to drop off the kid so I can feel shitty about myself for a weekend as he smirks and mutters his way through whatever activities I can come up with that don’t involve him staring at the computer while I get slowly drunk in… Read more »

Google Adwords intervention for ON-LOOKING program at or-bits.com

I have continued my Google Adwords experiments for the latest program at or​-bits​.com. It starts by hijacking Marialaura Ghidini’s curatorial statement with inappropriate ad links, and ends with poetry experiments on Google​.com. Over the course of the program I will attempt to create a self-​​sustaining economy in which advertising on the site pays for advertising to the site. Please do not click the links on Google​.com or this will surely fail.

IN OTHER WORDS:

or​-bits​.com presents
ON-​​LOOKING, its third online programme.

Featuring works by:
ALEXANDRA… Read more »

Please enjoy: links for 06/16/10

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The Oaf's Calling Card

Includes signature, date and space inside for a personalized message. Perfect for: blackout drunks with foresight, klutzes, cads, spouses of the pathologically inconsiderate, awkward conversationalists with a certain self-awareness, avoiders of direct conflict

The Conventionally Attractive Man in the Cave of Sorrow, Part I

The conventionally attractive man is leaning back with his legs propped on his desk, pondering the late afternoon sunlight. After a few hours his phone rings. There is a great static on the other line, but with his superior powers of hearing he can just make out the words:

“Thank god you’re there–ssssssk–Lord Death Man–dzzzz–my sister–kkktsssss–the Cave of Sorrow! Help me–ssszzz–!”

“I AM ON THE CASE!” The conventionally attractive man always yells when he is on the phone.

He stands holding the phone to his ear a moment longer,… Read more »

Official report: "Picture the worst thing happening"

Events too terrible to describe with language continue to unfold this week below the Earth's fragile crust, according to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Unexplainable Affairs. A Ministry official who spoke to CNN on condition of anonymity Thursday reported that even more horrors can be expected over the coming weeks in the dark world below the world, where millions survive in untold agony...