beautiful things

[storyrainthejournal]

Here's a link to Bruce Sterling's latest Viridian note, whose title is "beatiful things" and which contains many cool links and some nice thoughts, with a great Italo Calvino quote, from Bruce. Here's a shortcut to the links I found most amazing:

open-source web-art toys

lovely amd entertaining Danish webgame

And some of my own additions, in the spirit of Bruce and Italo's take on how to deal with the Inferno:

*rent and watch Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress a wonderful, beautiful movie, emotionally satisfying in every way
*drink tea
*play scrabble and mah jong
*watch Buffy, love Buffy, even when it's not as good as it could be
*say "aspidistra"
*look up the definition of the word "archerfish"
*make weird boxes using black sand and comicbook panels

a somewhat oblique and quirky list, but hey...