Blog Profile / Infocult
| URL : | http://infocult.typepad.com/infocult/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Education / Learning | |
| Posts on Regator: | 2468 | |
| Posts / Week: | 9.1 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
A royal monster
The Onion reports on a British royal's pregancy, like so: Kate Middleton Suffering From Morning Sickness (thanks to Jesse Walker)
Print your own doppelganger
In today's story of Japanese creepiness, a Tokyo firm will make you a doll of your very disturbed self. 3d printing horrors: A bunch of women had themselves "cloned" around their weddings, it seems: Some more charming details: Kaneko-san shows...
Zombies of Glass
Here's a new way to see Google Glass as scary: Glass-wearers as zombies. Ian Bogost explains: While some wearers might be glassholes and some might be glassed-out (and some might be both), a better characterization of this new trend must...
The horror of tech company purchasing
Sometimes the buying of a technology firm can resemble Gothic horror, at least according to this New Yorker article: [C]ompanies are so often founded explicitly for the purpose of being gobbled up and dissolved in the gullet of a gargantuan...
Accidental Google Glass art
A Twitter image update produces an accidentally satirical error: Here is the intended image, which is pretty funny. (via Jesse Walker)
The .edu supervillain
Found on Google+, Infocult's creator as supervillain: (thanks to jason k)
Horror of student loan debt
"The Red" is a horror short about... student loan debt. The heroine is haunted by all kinds of horror tropes in a few short minutes: wounds, mysterious bleeding, uncanny voices, crawling bugs, disturbing people, creepy phone calls, and oozing monsters....
Drone horror expands
How scary are drones? Pretty creepy, according to Germany's defense minister. "We prefer to pull the plug [on drones]. That applies to the future as well, when costs get out of control. Better an end with horror than a horror...
Art in disease
A new book finds beautiful visuals in the midst of horrible medical imagery. The imagery is horrible because it usually stems from disease or trauma: Lou Gherig's Disease, ectopic pregnancy, testicular cancer. There's something classically decadent about the project. (thanks...
Progress on the digital afterlife
We're doing better with our posthumous digital affairs, according to a Long Now post. For example, there have recently been a series of Digital Death Day unconferences. There's even a beautifully named Death Switch. With a death switch, the computer...
Cthulhu meets MOOCs
The rise of MOOCs explained. They came from R'lyeh! (thanks to Steven Burnett)
TMZ tries cyberfear
Celebrity gossip site TMZ discovered the scary side of cyberspace a few weeks ago, running a frantic story about hackers blackmailing the United States into war. As the headline shrieked, HACKER GROUP THREATENS TO BOMB WHITE HOUSE (caps and font...
Self-assembling printed robot inches your way
"A Printed Inchworm Robot" is mildly uncanny on the face of it. The little thing inches along, like a metal worm. It's interesting, too, because most of it has been 3d printed. But where it leaps into the uncanny valley...
How to use a touch of Gothic
The New Yorker quietly adds just a smidgen of Gothic to a technology essay: The primary interface element of Now is what Google calls “cards,” which are modelled after real cards. They present a clean, trim canvas for information—one recalls...
A drowned town rises into the light
A flood wiped out and submerged an Argentine town in the 1980s. Yet this year it surfaced, ruins emerging into the air. Call it a kind of ghost town: People come to see the rusted hulks of automobiles and furniture,...
Russia, home of the Gothic
Russia is such a Gothic nexus that it breeds vampire moths. Their discovery must have been quite the surprise: When the Russian moths were experimentally offered human hands this summer, the insects drilled their hook-and-barb-lined tongues under the skin and...
Cannibalism in Syria
Today's story of cannibalism comes from the Syrian civil war, where a rebel apparently gnawed on a dead soldier's heart. According to one account, In the clip, Sakkar cuts into the chest of the dead soldier before ripping out his...
Uzumaki invades real life
A woman's esophagus mutated into a spiral horror, delighting fans of Uzumaki everywhere: The woman had lost 11 pounds in the past several months, and told doctors she had cramplike spasms shortly after eating. Her doctors performed an endoscopy and...
More scary short videos from Popcorn horror
We shared the fine short video "Click" a few days ago. Now it's time to examine the other Gothic tidbits from the contest which "Click" won, Popcorn Horror. Warning: all of these have scenes of extreme violence, pain, and death....
Inhabiting an abandoned skyscraper
A Venezuelan skyscraper failed to fill its spaces with business, and fell empty. Gradually poor people moved in, squatting in what sounds like a disturbing ruin: ‘rooms with a view’ lacked walls, working electricity, running water, windows, balcony railings and...