What we talk about when we talk about data.

They’re real, and they’re spectacular.

Meet the anti­authoritarian Original Prometheans.

Artificial intelligence grinds its gears.

“Adventures Close to Home” became one fan’s anthem.

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2012.

A look back at what we’ve published this year.

A scene from DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993)

Patrick Cates vs. MEAT TENDERIZER

Matthew Battles vs. CANDYLAND LABYRINTH GAME

What the author of The Idler’s Glossary accomplished in 2012.

“Simon Cowell suggested that I should do something…”

Invent, grow, and build.

Grotesque distorted candy-color figures twist and writhe.

“Having trouble holding the illusion now?”

HiLo Hulot

Dorky chic, unmusically musical, awkwardly sexy.

“The fraud gets so intricate it takes on a life of its own.”

“Discarded dreams are everywhere to be found out here.”

Harry G. Frankfurt on bullshit

“You, I sense, are a dream without a dreamer.”

“Belief resists reality — that’s what’s so much better about it!”

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

“We know all, yet the code of human contact lies shattered at our feet.”