November 2009
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I have a break through
ghengisyan:
I love lectures and audiobooks but they are too slow. I now speed them up 45%. Now I’m learning about Marx from brownies and hearing Henry James ready by sylphs.
“How To” audios/videos could use the same speed increase.
Music Video Review
While perusing my favourite ex-colleagues music and technology based column, Riot Gear, I stumbled across a review of a band I’d never heard of, called Dirty Projectors. Intrigued, I did a little digging. […] So here’s the official video for “Stillness Is The Move” - a video that added heavily to the Beta Band element in my imagined metaphorical smashup. In the vid...
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“It’s really, totally a goal of mine to take simple elements and combine them in...”
– DL
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“At any level of detail […] you’re going to find there are multiple...”
– Gerald Jay Sussman
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backyard thin web
there’s a spider trying to spin a web on my back porch door. the web is old; the spider is trying to reuse it. but it’s above the handle of the door, not near the hinge, and the spider shakes when i open the door. its legs are beautiful—all 8 moving like some schonenberg symphony, colored like some cronenberg masterpiece. but spiders can’t hum to themselves. while...
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“Abstract. This article presents a history of ‘Project Cybersyn’, an early...”
– From “Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation: Socialist Cybernetics in Allende’s Chile” by Eden Medina. (PDF)
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“The tool is not only a tool, it shapes the human who uses it. We always have the...”
– Frank Schirrmacher, from “The Age of the Infovore.” transcribed video at edge (via syntheticpubes)
guitar. heare.
Brigitte, Germany's most popular women's mag, bans... →
syntheticpubes:
“From 2010 we will not work with professional models any more,” said Andreas Lebert, editor-in-chief, adding that he was “fed up” with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bore no resemblance to ordinary women.
“For years we’ve had to use Photoshop to fatten the girls up,” he said. “Especially their thighs, and decolletage. But this is disturbing and perverse...
