infinity-imagined:

City lights photographed from the International Space Station and Neurons imaged with fluorescence microscopy.

Source images; Cities (1) (2) (3) (4) (5), Neurons (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)

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darklyeuphoric:

Prada Fall 2009 Ready-to-Wear

I might call this “Orwell Chic.” Grim and utilitarian, yet subversive in the details.

Sarah Mower writes for Style.com:

One thing’s for certain: Miuccia Prada is not going to the eighties disco for Fall. Instead, her collection seemed to be a call for austerity measures, if that’s what you can read into boiled wool forties-style coats and suits, clothes that might have been appropriated from domestic upholstery fabric, and (possibly for women going back to the land for survival) kinky fishing waders. It was a bizarre take on utility even Prada found hard to explain. “I didn’t want to do anything about the city,” she said, “more something about sport and the outdoors in general—freedom and nature. But in the end, I realized I liked coats and suits. It was serious, in a way. It was about a need for feminine empowerment.” Prada’s women, with their violently frizzed-up hair, certainly had a disconcerting look about them as they advanced, with red-rimmed glitter-ringed eyes catching the light with a nearly malevolent glint. What they were wearing was constructed from substantial tweed and stiff leather, slit to reveal sexually incendiary flashes of naked leg and red knit underwear.

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mediapathic: I am angry about what happened to Aaron Swartz

mediapathic:

Aaron Swartz. aaronsw.

I didn’t know him. I should say that right off the bat. I think I met him, once, in the flurry of brilliant and bold people that happens when a community built on new communications methods explodes. But it seems that everyone I know did know him, in one way or another….

mediapathic: I am angry about what happened to Aaron Swartz

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thisisgunmachine:

“The real maps of the great cities of the world are invisible. They’re underfoot, or they’re wi-fi fields, or they’re satellite links. On a global basis, the financial markets’ biggest problem is the speed of light. I read a paper last year that said, quite bluntly, that what was holding back the efficiency of the global financial system was most often light-propagation delays. I know a guy in Bonn who thinks he can make a killing by floating an artificial island in the Arabian Sea and putting an uplinked trading center on it, bypassing six different choked systems and the delays inherent in their light cones.”

—from Gun Machine

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