links for 2010-03-01
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Sassy Lou Reed interview shot during the Sally Can’t Dance/Rock & Roll Animal phase in Australia, 1974. Reed is clearly having fun toying with the reporters on the topics of drugs (he’s for them), transvestism (sometimes) and what he spends his money on (drugs).
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Everywhere you look, the quantity of information in the world is soaring. According to one estimate, mankind created 150 exabytes (billion gigabytes) of data in 2005. This year, it will create 1,200 exabytes. Merely keeping up with this flood, and storing the bits that might be useful, is difficult enough. Analysing it, to spot patterns and extract useful information, is harder still. Even so, the data deluge is already starting to transform business, government, science and everyday life.
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This is a movie of a super-cool "painting" hanging in the basement of the British Library, in London. The author has done many such paintings, but this is the best (and all the others are very similar). It's called "Paradoxymoron", by Patrick Hughes
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Comics artist Philip Bond draws female astronauts.
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Fehlen eigentlich die besten abandoned Places in Japan (sucht hier mal nach „Gulliver“), aber egal.
