'Scenes from nuclear-exclusion zones, ... unsold developments built during the real estate boom, ghost towns, & more': http://t.co/vkJnchm6

Grimdark Istanbul. RT @djrupture: Orhan Pamuk goes sci-fi on when the Bosphorous dries up: http://t.co/cSuR9F51

Reading about European politics, it helps if you replace the word 'market' with 'dragon'. "Dragons are free to react how they want", etc.

'I blame the meltdown on that stupid skull that Damien Hirst did. If he hadn't made it, we'd all be riding high right now.' — @dougcoupland

'the 'formerly rich world' (as a Brazilian minister described Europe and the US, during a recent seminar at IDS)'

Check it, and spread the word. Briar: ultra-secure comms tools for journalists, activists & civil society: http://t.co/8suIZuGk

Good lord. £8 e-reader, powered by two AA batteries:  http://bit.ly/TxCVQi  #favelachic

Huh. RT @mims: Average American’s CO2 emissions are down to levels not seen since 1964. Really. http://t.co/8GSa19fy

Most convincing future yet. RT @mims Food-stealing drone crab-walks into your hut, waves its claws, says something menacing in Tagalog.

My next set of business cards will have no contact details; just the word "INNOVATION" written in someone else's blood.

Proof of extended cognition; vindication of open-plan living? RT @evsccc: Walking through doorways causes forgetting: http://t.co/eNMGxhj1

Hypothesis: fracking *is* peak oil. You think they'd be going to all this effort if everything was okay?

Amateur experimental archaeology ftw. 'Stylist Turns Ancient Hairdo Debate on Its Head':  http://on.wsj.com/WFEyjg 

'A compendium of the obvious, ethnology by anecdote.' Anthropological cage fight, as Wade Davis reviews Jared Diamond:  http://bit.ly/11fw9Wk 

Robot lands on Mars; Austrian falls from space; cyborg runs in Olympics; cyclone hits NY; anti-virus magnate flees into Belize jungle. #2012

One of the more unsettling articles about cephalopod cognition: http://t.co/tE7aX8qy

RT @doingitwrong: TED specifically celebrates benign elites. It is about noblesse oblige. #occupy is about jobless oblige.

Sterling: Depression at the state of the world is an act of intellectual arrogance. #unknownunknowns #tws3

Further Studies in Atemporality (a Flickr gallery): http://bit.ly/dWHSec [more to follow; let me know if you find anything appropriate]

So much of life in the early 21st century is about finding your tribe(s). Once that's sorted, everything else just kind of falls into place.