July 2010
3 posts
“On its present course, I think the future looks less like central London, and...”
– Clayton Cubitt
This kind of odd compromise is hardly... →
[Wired Magazine — Analysis: Google and China Agree on a Fiction]
June 2010
4 posts
"Login is (not) a verb" →
Idiocy angers me. The only thing that angers me more is idiocy dressed up as self-righteous pseudo-intellectualism written by people with poor language skills.
To wit: ‘login’ is a verb. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that following the Germanic tradition (English being a Germanic languge) of that (super annoying, but quite useful) thing known as a ‘seperable...
These men ... qualify as model citizens and family... →
May 2010
11 posts
BP, Coast Guard Officers Block Journalists From... →
defendneworleans:
Emerging reports are raising the question of just how much of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill journalists are able to document.
When CBS tried to film a beach with heavy oil on the shore in South Pass, Louisiana, a boat of BP contractors, and two Coast Guard officers, told them to turn around, or be arrested.
“This is BP’s rules, it’s not ours,” someone aboard the boat...
Typically more efficient than those around them,... →
Somewhere in Beaconsfield, GK Chesterton is giggling in his grave. [“Cat Among the Radicals” — Sydney Morning Herald]
The Redneck Manifesto →
“The cultural grease drippings of the 1960s will no longer be applicable in the twenty-first century. But class politics will. Anti-industrialism will. Redneck rural individualism, once thought to be a sure sign of mental retardation, will seem wise in the face of seething overpopulation. There are a lot of first-class philosophers hiding in the hills, too smart ever to come down into the city....
Law and Order cancelled →
Booooo.
I often hear people talking about Facebook as... →
[Gizmodo — “Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook”]
The complete Calvin & Hobbes, online, searchable... →
“I think the most important thing we can do is to treat Americans as citizent and...”
– Bill Moyers
April 2010
11 posts
BP oil spill ruins their livelihoods, Gulf... →
claytoncubitt:
“Either the seafood industry or the oil industry — that’s the only jobs down here, so I guess I’m trying to move from seafood to oil today,” said Bernel Prout, 55, a fisherman and Venice native.” (via defendneworleans)
See also: BP CEO earns $3k/hour last year, workers are being offered $10/hour to clean up BP spill
Also also: I guess BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” rebranding should...
The cyberwar rhetoric is dangerous. Its... →
Interesting when you put it side by side with the NPR interview. Dare I say it’s Clarke who comes across as the out-of-touch fearmonger?
See also: Cyberwar Hype Intended to Destroy the Open Internet
(Also, people, ‘cyber’? What is this, 1991? The very use of the prefix makes you sound irrelevant.)
Watch[from Everything Is Terrible! on Vimeo.]
“Lem singled out only one American SF writer for praise, Philip K. Dick … ....”
– Oh Phillip K. Dick, you so crazy. (No, really, you are.) [Stanisław Lem on Wikipedia]
“It’s like an edible Hironymous Bosch painting wrapped in a paper...”
– Stephen Colbert on the KFC Double-Down ‘sandwich’
How has it come to pass that a political party... →
About Hunger & Resilience →
from artist Michael Nye
“It’s not nearly as good for creating stuff. On the other hand, it’s infinitely...”
– David Pogue unknowlingly highlights the exact, glaring problem with the iPad and Apple’s current marketing attitude in his iPad review.
March 2010
9 posts
“Minneapolis MN —- In news that stunned both the political and media world,...”
– I believe it. [Dear Leader Blog]
WatchIn Tennessee it’s all about God and Country, except when the Country stands in the way of profit.
Further reading: Population density vs. land area; Anthropocene Era; Anthropogenic biomes; &c., &c.
“The name of the place puts me in mind of innocence and freedom — but also of...”
– Colby Cosh reacts to the collision of technology and psychogeography. [The Map Room — “When Street View Comes to Small Towns”]
WatchA convergence of awesomes.
thedailywhat:
New Music! Sigur Rós lead singer Jónsi Birgisson performs an acoustic cover of MGMT’s “Time to Pretend” on BBC Radio 1.
[ontd.]
Guns don't kill people →
Licensed permit-holders kills people.
I am actually much happier with how this turned... →
It’s a damn good film to boot.
Watchthedailywhat:
The Daily Show: Jon Stewart takes a cautious spin on Chatroulette, and finds a number of his colleagues braving the dong-infested cyberwaters to get a handle on the latest Internet craze.
[thedailyshow.]
February 2010
6 posts
fakeisthenewreal:
the I to and a of was he you it in her she that my his me on with at as had for but him said be up out look so have what not just like go they is this from all we were back do one about know if when get then into would no there I’m could don’t ask down time didn’t want eye them over your are or been now an by think see hand it’s say how around head did well before off who more...
“And no-one of any sense has ever bet against the scorn and resourcefulness of...”
– Jerry ”Tycho” Holkins
'The trouble with the world is that the stupid are... →
Critical QQ applies the Dunning-Kruger Effect to World of Warcraft groups. [via Cold Comfort]
WatchStephen Fry on the Catholic Church
January 2010
17 posts
Art that, quite literally, sells itself.
Caleb Larson, A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter (2009)
And most of it would be useless nonsense. →
(Infographic: ‘If you printed Twitter’)
Library of Strange Folktales, No. 006
‘Oh, what is this I cannot see,
With icy hand take hold on me?’
‘Oh, I am death and none can excell;
I open the door of heaven and hell.’
‘Now, Death oh, Death how can it be
That I must come and go with thee?
For Death, oh Death how can it be,
For I’m unprepared for eternity!’
‘Yes, I’ve come for to get your soul,
Leave your body and leave it...
