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“Orchestra Fail” (FailBlog) - This is way too good.

The first FAIL post without any picture or video in it. This is a historic moment in the history of FAIL.

faketv: mediology: via www.toothpastefordinner.com

And the Register concluded that a jailbroken phone used “fewer than 50 bytes of code out of more than 8 million bytes, or approximately 1/160,000 of the copyrighted work as a whole. Where the alleged infringement consists of the making of an unauthorized derivative work, and the only modifications are so de minimis, the fact that iPhone users are using almost the entire iPhone firmware for the purpose for which it was provided to them by Apple undermines the significance” of Apple’s argument. - from Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use” (ars technica)

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

LCD Soundsystem - “On Repeat”

‘How about them apples/iDoses?’

The indie band Dirty Projectors released a concept album around Don Henley in 2005 called The Getty Address which starts with Henley considering suicide but ends with mostly gibberish. -

From the wikipedia page on don henley, under the subtitle “parody.” Ha.

UPDATE: the passage immediately following the above sentence on that wikipage reads: “Psychobilly musician Mojo Nixon wrote a song called “Don Henley Must Die.” Some years later, Mojo was playing at Austin’s Hole in the Wall when Don Henley, who was also scheduled to play in Austin, came in. Mojo announced he was going to play the song when Henley himself climbed up on stage and began beatboxing to the song, which left Mojo utterly speechless. The two have since become friends.”

hypem: (via travisisgreat)

“So You Want to Write a Fugue” - Glenn Gould (also, vid of Gould discussing the work here.)

“Jewel Does Undercover Karaoke” via jkottke.

I bet y’all’ve seen this already, but i gotta put it up for posterity. As Kottke says, “Instant Classic.”

Digital Drugs aka iDosing

This video is amazing in many ways. The extent to which “the internet” doesn’t take it seriously makes me wonder…

Will future presidential candidates defend their i-dosing past by saying, “But I had it on mute”? Are we supposed to declare a war on cyberdrugs or a cyberwar on cyberdrugs? How will police know if a teen is with headphones on is i-dosing or just listening to Justin Bieber? Is the iPod the bong of the future?

- Wired

I just got so wasted on this and then did a whole kilo of pure heroin; stuffed it right into my ears…Look at that, I’m a drug dealer now! Now you’ll all be pounding on my door in the middle of the night looking to score some tunes.

- Kottke

Three vectors reject cultural and technical standardization and invent alternative accounts of globalized digital culture. First, proximity represents the ability of information to represent a corporeal and situated experience. The antinomy: proximity-distance explores social, corporeal, and technical experiences online and offline. Second, lag proposes that temporal delays function as devices that disrupt standardization and homogenization in global information culture. Thirdly, distribution considers the emergence of information aesthetics as dispersed time restructures data-space. These new media forms shift away from data as bit-mapped graphics to data as vectors. This implies that the informatics image no longer distributes what the original encoded and stored, for example a scanned photo turned into a bitmapped graphic. New media artists experiment with asynchronicity to disturb expectations of easily accessible and smoothly flowing global information. The three vectors represent place and material conditions in the experience of new media. -

from Camila Alvarez’s review of Anna Munster’s Materializing New Media. (rhizomes.net).

Munster’s baroque theory of the digital resonates. I need to know more.

(via walkietalkies)

still from The Seventh Seal

There is perhaps no better symbol of the information age than the infographic. Infographic-thinking and its immediate rewards have tempted hordes of academics into “Television Science” careers. All of them are apparently writing books that rhyme with “Freakonomics,” and dreaming of getting on the TED stage. I quite like one part of the movement, the fact that it encourages creativity. But I am afraid we are heading towards infographic-exhaustion by not being principled enough about how and where we apply our creativity. - from “My Remarkable, Famous Graph” - trailmeme.com

newyorker:

yea, I’m feelin’ that.

“Transhuman”

From ‘Technocalypse,’ to which I refuse to link but is viewable on the youtubes.

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