June 2010
20 posts
Jun 30th
WatchWatch
newyorker: 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.
Jun 25th
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“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and...”
–  Nietzsche, Will to Power (810 — Spring-Fall 1887)
Jun 24th
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)
Jun 23rd
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Jun 22nd
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Jun 18th
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Jun 12th
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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.
Jun 12th
Jun 11th
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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.”)
Jun 9th
Jun 8th
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Jun 8th
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Jun 6th
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Jun 5th
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Jun 1st
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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)
Jun 1st
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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)
Jun 1st