Monthly Archives: November 2010

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Speed-flying or speed-riding is a new and insanely dangerous extreme sport: part skiing, part paragliding.

It claimed 9 lives last year and – as you watch these loons descending from the 4km high (13,000ft) summit of  Mount Eiger in the Swiss Alps – you’ll see why.

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Page 99 is a website based on a quote from the late english novelist, publisher and critic, Ford Madox Ford:

“Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.”

Here’s the link.

If you can’t be arsed signing up to avail of the service, this is page 99 of Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake:

Well? Is the quality of the whole revealed to you?

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A trippy little experiment from UK animator, Cyriak Harris.

If you’ve never seen his work, we strongly recommend you check out this, then this and, if you have a brain-cell left in your head, this.

The man’s a genius. Benoit Mandelbrot would have been proud, God rest him.

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