Enda O'Donoghue's oil paintings of digital snapshots explore the mixture of intense self-regard and ephemerality that characterizes imagery in the Facebook era�and even the process of painting them looks like a glitchy upload. Video after the jump.

The bicycle rider always wants a car, Kevin Kelly reminds us in What Technology Wants. But the car won't make him happier�and if what technology wants is autonomy, it may be advised against the pursuit of happiness.

Nature as marketing campaign? That shit's fucked up. Video after the jump.

A hypnagogic animation of mathematical imagery prompts thoughts of spinning fractal symmetries and the history of life on Earth. Video after the jump.

A giant aircraft, a wandering writer's enigmatic death, and a cyborg with can-do spirit�today's hits in the history of science and technology.

What Instagram did with Polaroid aesthetics, iSupr8 wants to do with the mid-century home movie format. It's an example of the peculiar flavor of Internet-era image nostalgia, expressed in app form. Video after the jump.

Visits to the Antarctic and the farthest reaches of the solar system: today's hits in science and technology.

G. K. Chesterton: "The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth."

Reviewing Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal's manifesto of gaming for a better world, Ian Bogost realizes that he likes the messy, repellent, stunning reality we've got.

French-Canadian kids doing anthropology in the midst of our broken future, contending with the vague stirrings of paleotechnology. Video after the jump.