Steeling snails
We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
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Marcel Proust (via stoweboyd) |
Foot-powered vacuum cleaner at Erdig. The instructions appeared to suggest using a small boy as your power-source.
Pablo Picasso - Bull’s Head (1942) - Bicycle seat and handlebars
That man and bulls!
To look up, because they are not there in the Guardian’s index. Not only have they ceased to exist, they have ceased to have ever existed. Which is the modern implementation of Orwell’s dictum that he controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future. Because the past is stored physically in the present. All records of the past. This issue of preserving politically salient intellectual content while it is under attack is central to what WikiLeaks does — because that is what we are after! We are after those bits that people are trying to suppress, because we suspect, usually rightly, that they’re expending economic work on suppressing those bits because they perceive that they are going to induce some change.
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Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt (that would be Assange speaking to Schmidt) The Cloud makes this easier. Back up to local storage. |






