ay! there are so many links... plus, they differ widely in importance...
the links here are mostly old, the new ones will have to wait for a new interface i am planning to show and manage Links - check this page again soon...
the Links here are just listed alphabetically, you might find it more useful to look at them on my NetCells page - new first, with some additional data and functionality...

PHOTOGRAPHER WITHOUT A CAMERA (ARTE TV) - a great (if sketchy) portrait of Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, who reminds us that to photograph means simply to "write with light" -- no camera necessary ! (6 min)
DIGITISING REMBRANDT'S NIGHT WATCH! - Rijksmuseum web site full of fascinating details.
DEVIL'S ALGORITHMS - Bernard Stiegler (rather convincingly) calls Alan Greenspan a proletarian, plus, more treats...
ILLITERATE WRITER - survived most of his pals...
VIVIAN MAIER - lost and miraculously resurrected, via find of 100,000 photographs, to earn her a posthumous reputation as one of America’s most accomplished and insightful street photographers.
MARTIN AMIS - site dedicated to this great writer, born in 1949.
MESSAGE FROM LARRY BRILLIANT - the man who eradicated smallpox - about the current pandemic.
TED - TALK ABOUT LOVE - we define Love as sickness! a collaborative work of art is a much better metaphor - no?
CORTAZAR - DOCUMENTARY - financed by a bank -- they are good for something!
THE MYSTERIOUS STATE OF FLOW - classic talk about life worth living
TED - HOW TO SLEEP - short but interesting talk about sleep patterns
TED - HACKING A MOUSE'S BRAIN - still trying to work that one out...
RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS - this great site is a must for anyone with a brain and a pair of eyes (you also need an Internet connection).
2CELLOS - LIVE AT ARENA PULA (CROATIA) 2013 (LUKA SULIC AND STJEPAN HAUSER) - my new friend, Santiago just sent me this... 2 cellos can do a lot ;-) 7.5 M views so far.
QUANTUM COMPUTING EXPLAINED IN 10 MINUTES - eh.. not really, but it's enough to blow to pieces all your preconceived ideas about the future...
RENZO PIANO ON TED - Beauty WILL save the world says Renzo -- lets hope so -- he is certainly helping. PS. found this nice quote on his company site: "Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom."
JAVASCRIPT.COM - nice site with interactive introduction to JavaScript, if you have a child or know a child why not give them something intelligent to play with...?
ELON MUSK ON TED APR 2017 - talk with Elon Musk - "I just try not to be sad when thinking about future"...
MOSHE SZYF ON EPIGENETICS - we are just beginning to understand how the genes work and, no, your destiny is not fixed.
PICASSO - French site for a well known Spanish artist. i am rather disillusioned that it is a yet another Wordpress installation :-/ but check also picasso.com -- shows what can happen if you do not register a .com version of your name...
HOW A DRAGONFLY BRAIN IS DESIGNED TO KILL - an astonishing lesson in DIY neuroscience reveals the dragonfly as a 97% accurate predator. all this with only 16 neurons.
E-FLUX JOURNAL - new online journal from NY art group e-flux
ZD NEWS - general computer and IT industry news - useful and often entertaining
WAYNE CLEMENTS - London visual artist and writer, creatively using IT technology
ADAM BEN EZRA - FLAMENCO - astounding percussive double bass version -- music speaks one language, across all borders.
TED: HOW YOUR BRAIN HALLUCINATES REALITY - Anil Seth explains how we predict ourselves into existence, includes the wonderful artificial hand experiment.
JARON LANIER - HOW WE NEED TO REMAKE THE INTERNET - great talk from big Jaron - "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them"
RISE OF HUMAN-COMPUTER COOPERATION - we badly need good news from the advancing robotisation front - and here are some! average humans able to use computers well beat chess champion on supercomputer - the key is low friction interface. brief, it's AI (Artifician Intelligence) vs IA (Intelligence Augumentation)
WHY THE FUTURE DOESN'T NEED US - BY BILL JOY - this now classic vision of the future from the year 2000 remains valid, with most questions unanswered.
ALEX WISSNER TED TALK ABOUT INTELLIGENCE - Function of intelligence ? keep the maximum of options open.
THIS IS THE MOST DANGEROUS TIME FOR OUR PLANET - a poignant message to human kind from one of a kind Stephen Hawking...
BOT POET - simple web site from Oscar Schwartz, where you can try to guess whether a poem was written by a human or a computer. many poems easily pass the Turing test of >30%,
PROJECT GUTENBERG - 53,000 free ebooks, including many classics, now in public domain. "for human readers only" say the Terms of Use...
BALLARDIAN.COM - unofficial site from S. Sellars (AUS) exploring tropes and motifs found in the work of J.G. Ballard
THE GIFT - SHORT ANIMATION FILM - nice, clever and hugely successful 7'50'' animation from Chileans Julio Pot and Cecilia Baeriswyl
STEFAN HEPNER - design studio of my old, multi-talented friend from Paris, now quietly settled in Brooklyn, NY.
MUSIC NOTATION - useful resource for music notation systems, from sheet music to MIDI and Braille
ANTHONY CERNIELLO - DANIELLE AGING - illustrating aging process by meticulously superimposing images of one family members.
INGRID KAMERBEEK - digital artist and friend in Bavaria, Germany, inventor of the webism movement.
CANIBAAL MAGAZINE - the fearsome literary magazine in Valencia, Spain, run by (Al)Chemist Ximo Rochera, with Jesús García Cívico (Aldo Alcota has been eaten). now in 7th issue continues to delight and inspire (in Spanish).
MAG CULTURE - small design studio and shop in central London working for and distributing over 350 of independent magazines from around the world.
URBAN DICTIONARY - dictionary of urban slang and techno neologisms.
CASEY REAS - computer artist
MAJORA CARTER AT TED - Greening the ghetto - caution - this is fast moving...
MIT TECH REVIEW - LATEST BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES - 10 breakthrough technologies of the 2013, according to MIT - include memory implants, additive manufacturing and supergrids - they got quite a few of them right. they do that every year, just change the date in the address.
BLACK SIFICHI - American DJ and poet in Paris
MIKOLAJ WALCZUK - PHOTOGRAPHER FROM HAWAII - young photographer from Hawaii, a nice guy and speaks Japanese !
HACKER NEWS - no better way to depress yourself super-quick, but, then again, you would be silly to ignore those news altogether. find out what planet you are inhabiting.
DISNEY PERFECTS FACE-CLONING - totally controllable and hyper-accurate actor replacement
GRAMMARLY - DUBIOUS RESULTS AT A STEEP PRICE - One writer's confrontation with grammar checking software. The best way to learn to write is from other humans - he says in conclusion.
THE WORLD FIRST WEB SITE - CERN's restoration project puts the world's first web site, of 30 April 1993, back where it was - open sharing of linked documents with no royalties was the original idea.
ALAN MARSH - great friend, top food and still-life photographer, London.
UNMASKING DIGITAL MANIPULATION OF PHOTOS - Cameras do not lie but photographers (and editors) do. Nevertheless, a growing array of software is now on hand to automatically detect all but the very expert trickery.
ONE MILLION TWEET MAP - Amazingly, it shows what it says. In real time.
INTERNET HISTORY - an interesting, Computer Museum (California) page about progress of the Net.
TUPAJUMI - Artists' group, Amsterdam
TERRY MARKS - figurative painter, tattooist, graphic artist, New York.
ISTVAN HORKAY - collage and multimedia artist, Budapest.
NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE, NY - excellent natural world and science magazine, paper and web.
DATASOUP - free collection of interesting and relevant facts, started by Eyeball CyberArt Studio.
KILOMETER ZERO - Parisian literary collective
UK CHANGES IMAGE COPYRIGHT RULES - UK Intellectual Property Office responds to the 'abolition of copyright' law controversy.