//synesthesia: Archive

old school / dj aristocat [a world of my own] ...

Jan 28th

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laugh at sex, not her / the strange boys [be...

Jan 28th

awkward stock photos [thanks timbo] →

Jan 28th

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numbers don’t lie / the mynabirds [what we...

Jan 28th

before martyrdom, breakfast / thomas bartlett →

cave n’ eggs: The tapes he found most intriguing were those that captured everyday, unscripted conversations between jihadis. In a recent paper presented at the American Anthropological Association’s annual meeting, he focused on one tape in particular. It begins with mysterious hissing and popping noises. When he first heard it, Mr. Miller imagined militants in a remote outpost...

Jan 28th

animal minds / radiolab / wnyc →

Jan 27th

paying zero →

huh: According to Anand, the idea was first conceived by an Indian physics professor at the University of Maryland, who, in his travels around India, realized how widespread bribery was and wanted to do something about it. He came up with the idea of printing zero-denomination notes and handing them out to officials whenever he was asked for kickbacks as a way to show his resistance. Anand took...

Jan 27th

garry kasparov writes a book →

you should read the whole thing: In what Rasskin-Gutman explains as Moravec’s Paradox, in chess, as in so many things, what computers are good at is where humans are weak, and vice versa. This gave me an idea for an experiment. What if instead of human versus machine we played as partners? My brainchild saw the light of day in a match in 1998 in León, Spain, and we called it...

Jan 27th

el reloj / los jovenes y sexys [bruno ep] La...

Jan 27th

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music blog rundown

suggestions welcome: 3hive, beware of the blog, fingertips, puddlegum, the ocmd, too much happiness, right where you are standing now, rose quartz, transparent blog, gorilla vs. bear, la cinta, neon gold beat company, butter team, chocolate bobka, gimme tinnitus, microphone memory emotions, no pain in pop, pukekos, the 305, the decibel tolls, together in digital dreams, fluxblog, the catbirdseat,...

Jan 27th

why does everyone want to kill jared leto →

Jan 27th

Jan 22nd

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baby / devendra banhart [what will we be]

Jan 22nd

the ricci world map →

this looks amazing. i’m gonna go check this out tomorrow: Created by a visiting Italian-born Jesuit priest, Matteo Ricci, and apparently commissioned by the court of Emperor Wanli in 1602 — the year after Ricci became the first Westerner admitted to Peking and then the Forbidden City— this map is indeed partly a tribute to the land in which Ricci had lived since 1582, and in which he would...

Jan 22nd