In the finest tradition of the internet as a content distributor as well as a content creator, here are a few links for your edification and enjoyment. I am far too lazy to find out how to format this well, but be sure to imagine that it's all in bullet points.
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Steampunk Magazine, free for download as a beautifully formatted PDF;
"Steampunk overthrows the factory of consciousness by means of beautiful entropy, creating a seamless paradox between the practical and the fanciful. This living dream of technology is neither slave nor master, but partner in the exploration of otherwise unknowable territories of both art and science."
[*]Kurt Vonnegut's
Harrison Bergeron;
"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
[*]Full text of
Allen Ginsberg's Howl, forgoing the bit about 'Holy! Holy! Holy!';
" who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat
up smoking in the supernatural darkness of
cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities
contemplating jazz, "
[*]I just find
this comic amusing.
[*]I've been occasionally trying to figure out how to work
The Girlfriend Experience for the past month, and i'm sure if I ever succeed it'll be fascinating.
"When you use virtual avatars you can do as you please. In The Girlfriend Experience you will have to get to know each other first. Player and avatar explore what they can do for each other and how far the avatar wants to go to execute specific desires. It is ambiguous who is really controlling the situation."
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Live Leak, purportedly 'Redefining the media'. Not sure what to think of it yet. For all you snuff film fans.
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Arthur is dead, which means you'd better read it before they take it offline.
(Highlight of last issue; '"Bog Venus vs. Nazi Cock-Ring: Some Thoughts Concerning Pornography" by Alan Moore: a landmark eight-page essay/manifesto, with illustrations'
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Hakim Bey - Still oficially too smart for me.
"CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated."