Traits shared by all human cultures, without known exceptions.

"What I believe is happening now is that true teme machines are arriving -- that is, machines that copy and produce variations and then select. That's what you need for an evolutionary process [independent of human beings]; that's natural selection."

Thought movement opposed to entropic contemporary economies. Electromysticism replaces transparency, code-driven art liberates software from the machinic.

Related to personal development, rationality and big cultural issues, but the only reason I'm bookmarking this is that it's so damn entertaining.

A documentary about Japanese male hosts who work in night clubs to sell love (not physical, but emotional love, or the resemblance of it) to women.

A kind of meta-journal or review of scientific articles. The idea is to dig up really exciting pieces of research from any field — the kind of science that has serious implications for the way we should all understand the world we live in.

Mitch Kapor speculates about “some of the larger meaning of it all and where we might be going.”