Overspray Magazine

Processes of Adaptation in Intimate Relationships Project is a long-term study of courtship and marriage.

The One Minutes

Swimming With Famous Dead Sharks, New York Times, October 1, 2006

Background story on one of Damien Hirst’s well known conceptual works: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991)

Nick Knight is a photographer and director that explores the fields of vision within and outside of fashion.

Men in Tights, Nick Knight

Antony, Anthony and the Johnsons
Pagan Poetry, Bjork

Part of Lacan’s lecture for French public television in 1974 entitled ‘Psychoanalysis’, which aimed to introduce a wide audience to his ideas.

Jacques Lacan, On consciousness (1974)

Slavoj Žižek (1949-) is a Slovenian philosopher and Sociologist, making use of Lacan’s works.

Works:
The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
The Ticklish Subject (1999)

Documentaries:
Žižek:The Reality of the Virtual (2004)
Žižek! (2005) (part 1)
The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)
Children of Men, commentary (2006)

Links:
The International Journal of Žižek Studies
Cultural Studies blog links

Mindxp.com can now be viewed on the mobile web. I added code to remove all sidebars and to remove the header image. To remove the images in the posts use the settings on your phone. If your mobile device is not recognized by my code, go to the following URL and send me the HTTP_USER_AGENT information the page displays, and I will correct it.

http://www.mindxp.com/myuseragent.php

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The Opera web browser is my favorite web browser. One of the main things I love about it is the option to define your own address bar shortcuts. For instance, instead of typing ‘http://www.google.com’, waiting for Google page to load, typing your search keywords and hitting the submit button, the Opera browser is by default set to allow you to simply type ‘g my name is red’ in the address bar to search for ‘my name is red’. Now, so far nothing great, because most browsers allow you also to set your own preferred search bar, so you can mimic this by typing your keyword here.

But if you go to the Opera preferences > Search , you can add your own address bar shortcuts. For instance I have added Wikipedia as follows:

Name: Wikipedia
Keyword: w
Address:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&fulltext=Search

So, I only have to type ‘w My Name is Red’ in the address bar to search Wikipedia for ‘My Name is Red’.

Create your own customized address bar shortcut, by simply replacing the search string of any URL by %s. For instance: (more…)

On the Mac OS X you browse your files and folders using Finder, which hides all hidden folder and files. To view these hidden files and folders in finder open a Terminal window and type the following command:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true

To hide the hidden files again in Finder simply execute the same command with the boolean value changed from ‘true’ to ‘false’.

To block advertisements on your Mac OS X, add domain name mappings to your local /private/etc/host file. See for more details:
http://www.mindxp.com/2006/04/08/filtering-ads-while-browsing/.