"This system effectively reorders literary encounters with the new. Sure, in the pre-Web days you could always dig up critical reviews of a novel that was published ten years ago. But those periodicals and reviewing publications would themselves be dated, perhaps even weathered, and their interpretations would be physically and conceptually bound to the past. Now, between blogs, reviews and our own continually extending social media conversations, it is possible to create clusters and conversations of newness around any book, no matter how old. The moment of initial surprise and inspiration is captured (well, a pale shadow of it anyway) through those architectures of literary connection, and then reproduced for the next browser in search of, well, the novel."

"HISTORY IS OUR FUTURE. And we've been trashing our history. Archive Team is a loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage. Since 2009 this variant force of nature has caught wind of shutdowns, shutoffs, mergers, and plain old deletions - and done our best to save the history before it's lost forever. Along the way, we've gotten attention, resistance, press and discussion, but most importantly, we've gotten the message out: IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

This website is intended to be an offloading point and information depot for a number of archiving projects, all related to saving websites or data that is in danger of being lost. Besides serving as a hub for team-based pulling down and mirroring of data, this site will provide advice on managing your own data and rescuing it from the brink of destruction."

"Much of pinhole photography relates to the use of time and being creative with the light from the sun, similar wonders to that found in astronomy. A 6-month exposure will enable you to image the arc of the sun as it rises or sinks throughout 6 months of the year. As well as this you will get some foreground detail and a camera to look at with awe as a small hole etches its 6-month exposure from your window ledge, garden shed, lamp post, tree etc.

Being able to capture a period of time far beyond our own vision is incredible enough, but even more amazing is how simple it is to do. The final camera gives an extreme wide angle of view of 160 degrees."

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Lasting 1,000 years, Jem Finer’s Longplayer is famously the longest non-repeating piece of music ever composed. Originally commissioned by Artangel, it’s been playing continually at listening posts around the world since the first moments of the millennium.

about Dmitry Orlov

more cheery stuff from Dmitry Orlov, this time in much greater depth than the "Collapse Gap" slides

"Even the smallest change in the original document will result in a new hash value. " MAY, they should say--just makes forgery DIFFICULT, not impossible

Awesomer than awesome.

Established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again. Conceived and composed by Jem Finer, it was originally produced as an Artangel commission, and is now in the care of the Longplayer Trust.

You live in the big here. Wherever you live, your tiny spot is deeply intertwined within a larger place, imbedded fractal-like into a whole system called a watershed, which is itself integrated with other watersheds into a tightly interdependent biome. (See the world eco-region map ). At the ultimate level, your home is a cell in an organism called a planet. All these levels interconnect. What do you know about the dynamics of this larger system around you? Most of us are ignorant of this matrix. But it is the biggest interactive game there is. Hacking it is both fun and vital.

these interventions have functioned in my life exactly as I believe they were intended to: they expanded and refined my perceptions, helped me look at the world around me in a different light, and even occasionally urged me to one or another practical decision about the way I wanted to live my life.

Boing Boing tv guest correspondent Todd Lappin (R) and cameraninja Eddie Codel (L) trek to the Long Now Foundation's first-ever Mechanicrawl event, and bring back tales of early analog computing, fantastic timepieces, and impossibly eccentric mechanical things.

Its organisers call it the longest concert in the world. Almost seven years in, and with 632 years left, it is unlikely anyone will challenge the claim.