A Dictionary of Units of Measurement: A nice collection. The magnificent world of "tetrads", "farthingdales" and "lippies". Did you know that "nox" was a unit of (low) illumination used in Germany during World War II to describe permitted levels of lighting during air raids? Or that we ought not need longer distance units than yottameters, because the radius of the observable universe is only about 200 of them? Perfect. Link
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]
