July 2010
27 posts
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“And the Register concluded that a jailbroken phone used “fewer than 50...”
– from Apple loses big in DRM ruling: jailbreaks are “fair use” (ars technica)
LCD Soundsystem - “On Repeat”
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“The indie band Dirty Projectors released a concept album around Don Henley in...”
– 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...
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Watch“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.”
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“Three vectors reject cultural and technical standardization and invent...”
– 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.
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“There is perhaps no better symbol of the information age than the infographic....”
– from “My Remarkable, Famous Graph” - trailmeme.com
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“The secrets to Coco’s success, and the dozens of girls that have come before and...”
– from “how supermodels are like toxic assets.” (3quarksdaily)
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nostrich:
RJD2 - “The Takeoff”
RJD2 + Jean...
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“I’m moving to Evanston in September for grad school, and I need someone...”
– facebook marketplace is a joke.
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“Use difficulty as a guide not just in selecting the overall aim of your company,...”
– Paul Graham in his essay on Wealth also in his book “Hackers and Painters.”
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June 2010
23 posts
Watchnewyorker:
This week in the magazine, Anthony Lane visits the Eurovision Song Contest, “the World Cup of pop music.” (read more; subscription required)
Here, Lane teaches you how to speak in the special language he dubs “Eurovision English”
Wow! And the see-through dual keyboard instrument at 1:21 looks a-MAYZE-ing.
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“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and...”
– Nietzsche, Will to Power (810 — Spring-Fall 1887)
How to Keep Someone With You Forever →
Really disturbing piece about how to make someone dependent on you…i.e. “creating a sick system”. Here are the four basic rules:
1. Keep them too busy to think. 2. Keep them tired. 3. Keep them emotionally involved. 4. Reward intermittently.
(straight from jkottke)
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““The Singularity is not the great vision for society that Lenin had or Milton...”
– From In the Singularity Movement, Humans are so Yesterday (NYTimes).
My two cents:
Scientology:Hollywood::Singularity:Silicon Valley.
Watch“Infinite high-fives to artist Irina Dakeva, who illustrated and directed this video with over 2000 watercolor paintings, which is not only time-intensive but crazily inventive…” from FADER via mixblooded)
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“The medium of sensibility also constitutes the paradoxical relationship of art...”
– Marcuse in The Aesthetic Dimension (note: in the preface of this book, he notes that he is writing about written works. Oh, and this was published in ‘77, part of “that span of time before Internet.”)
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“Oblong Industries is the developer of the g-speak spatial operating environment.
The SOE’s combination of gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels brings the first major step in computer interface since 1984; starting today, g-speak will fundamentally change the way people use machines at work, in the living room, in conference rooms, in vehicles. The g-speak...
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“This is all to say that there is no shadowy conspiracy at work here. The...”
– from Jeremy Riles’s “Lady Gaga’s Secret Religion.” (from RD mag, via book4m)
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“Good evening!!!, Robbie_the_robot !!
My name is Dorothy :)
I really feel...”
– “Computer Luv” (part of the Meaning-Full Spam Series)
May 2010
58 posts
“Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word. It...”
– - Martin Luther King Jr.
from “The Power of Non-Violence,” June 4th, 1957. (full text)
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Recent studies by Professor Nina Kraus, a neuroscientists at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have shown that the electrical activity inside the brain while listening to music closely matches the physical properties of sound waves.
Using brain scanning equipment Professor Kraus, who presented her findings at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego on...