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Jun 28

Was China’s earthquake triggered by a nuclear accident?

(Conspiracy Theory Time! It’s what the internet does best. Not saying it happened, not saying it didn’t, just doing my bit for the Fortean cause and pointing out a *theory*.)

More here.

Jun 27

14 months in the making, 42 countries, and a cast of thousands.

Low Cost Gas Engine Innovation Doubles Fuel Economy

Jun 14

Common Craft do Social Media.

“ 10:53 a.m. A man licking the pavement on Main Street in front of Subway was gone when police got there.

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Gone when police got there

by Corwin Ericson

Jun 11

Renewable gasoline?

51-year-old television set now wired for the digital age

May 24

» Why 'I am Legend' sucked so badly. (Alternate end)

» Structures of Participation in Digital Culture: Karaganis, Joe, ed. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2007.

Masaru Goto - NIHONJIN, BURAKUMIN: Portraits of Japan’s outcast people.

Richard Ross - Architecture of Authority

Apr 27

» Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Clay Shirky’s lightly edited transcription of a speech he gave at the Web 2.0 conference, April 23, 2008.

Apr 19

Self-portraiture and emerging artistic consciousness in Dafen. (No, not the Llanelli Dafen.)

Apr 18

I Want You To Want Me / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar

Plush toys, dissected.