Bot Poet
simple web site from Oscar Schwartz, where you can try to guess whether a poem was written by a human or a computer. many poems easily pass the Turing test of >30%,
Elon Musk on TED Apr 2017
a great new talk from Elon Musk - "I just try not to be sad when thinking about future"...
Project Gutenberg
53,000 free ebooks, including many classics, now in public domain. "for human readers only" say the Terms of Use...
The Gift - short animation film
nice, clever and hugely successful 7'50'' animation from Chileans Julio Pot and Cecilia Baeriswyl
Stefan Hepner
design studio of my old, multi-talented friend from Paris, now quietly settled in Brooklyn, NY.
Canibaal Magazine
the fearsome literary magazine in Valencia, Spain, run by (Al)Chemist Ximo Rochera, with Jesús García Cívico (Aldo Alcota has been eaten). now in 7th issue continues to delight and inspire (in Spanish).
Polska Canada
PolskaCanada is a 'Magazyn Twórczy' - that means a 'Creative Magazine' - facilitating cultural exchange across the Atlantic for Polish and Canadian authors, my old friend Jan Tomkowski among them.
Vivian Maier
long forgotten and miraculously resurrected amateur photographer, documenting 20th century America with her sharp European eye. Vivian Maier's (1926 – 2009) cache of 100,000 photographs has earned her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.
Mag Culture
small design studio and shop in central London working for and distributing over 350 of independent magazines from around the world.
MIT Tech Review - latest breakthrough technologies
10 breakthrough technologies of the 2013, according to MIT - include memory implants, additive manufacturing and supergrids - they got quite a few of them right. they do that every year, just change the date in the address.
SodaPlay
mashing up the physical and digital worlds for culture and learning. digital creatures are no longer there, but still a very interesting site.
high voltage power lines health effect = 0
combat pseudoscience and hysteria with Steven Salzberg - professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics, USA. contains links to statistical data from US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health.
Off-Press
OFF_PRESS is a UK-based independent publishing house, promoting contemporary creative writing in English, with a special focus on translations, using multimedia and live events to celebrate reading and storytelling in different languages/genres around the world.
Coop Himmelb(l)au
Austrian architecture studio COOP HIMMELB(L)AU, founded by Wolf D. Prix, is the origin of many interesting and inspiring projects.
Intelligent Glass
UK company that manufactures and supplies the widest range of switchable glass & film products to the trade, since 2004.
Photomediations Machine
Photomediations Machine is a curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced and engaged. Professor Joanna Zylinska, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Calatrava's Milwaukee Art Museum
2001 project from Valencian neofuturist architect, creator of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia.
Paris Metro route finder
find precise route information - metro, bus, walking, also gives you the CO2 emissions for each mode of transport.
In English, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese.
Alex Wissner TED talk about intelligence
Function of intelligence ? keep the maximum of options open.
TED.com - online social change: easy to organize,
yes! democracy needs to be updated.
but -- it will not be done as easily as you think.
techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci has the news -- good and bad.
Sounds and Silence - movie
A new film about ECM's Manfred Eicher, with Arvo Pärt, Dino Saluzzi, Jan Garbarek and others.
