May 2009
119 posts
Somebody please make a movie that’s like Taken meets Where the Wild Things Are.
Twitter is taking over my life
Hah! Got you! Or something.
I like that the google results for “Bing” point to news stories about the new Microsoft search engine but not the engine itself.
“In his wonderful essay about the internet (which, inexplicably, hasn’t...”
– On Demand Media: Newspapers are in the breakfast business
Wait, what?! Baricco! Somebody: translate this now!
Kanye West's New Book Filled With Practical Advice... →
Perfect. See also: The RZA’s Wu-Tang Manual.
The big steel Tri-Met ticket vending machines run Windows. I saw one boot up the other day and it was really surreal. It even made the sound.
Sotomayor’s Opponents and Allies Prepare... →
And by opponents, NYTimes means Tony Perkins and Rush Limbaugh.
“To occupy a dream, to exist in a dreamed space (conjured by both father and...”
– Speaking in Tongues - The New York Review of Books
I just found a transcription of this Zadie Smith lecture. It’s really good.
“For [Schopenhauer], the feeling of the beautiful is pleasure in simply seeing a...”
– Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Burke was the first philosopher to argue that the sublime and the beautiful are...”
– Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“One of the principal conceits of The Spectator is its fictional narrator, Mr....”
– The Spectator (1711) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The development of the concept of the sublime as an aesthetic quality in nature...”
– Sublime (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In the same way that a convenience store sells milk at a loss to get people...”
– Kevin Bewersdorf
Mom: Book with "My Breaking In" as a chapter.
Mom: I think it's that J.D. Salinger thing. Catcher in the Rye.
Mom: Except that doesn't fit.
Me: Black Beauty.
Mom: Oh, wonderful!
Mom: Give me my computer and I'll look them all up.
I’m visiting my parents. My mom keeps asking me to look up answers to her crossword puzzle on Wikipedia.
Ontology for Wikipedia →
Wikipedia will be one step closer to becoming The Matrix.
Comfortable - Lil Wayne feat. Babyface
Hey wait, is swine flu still around?
“King criticizes the persistent tendency among contemporary feminists from...”
– Donna Haraway - Cyborg Manifesto
Probably the most solid criticism of Wikipedia I’ve ever heard.
Donna Haraway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“Honestly though, is a 14 year old looking for something illicit more likely to...”
– Whither Eucalyptus? - Jamie’s Web Log
James Montgomerie on the Apple App Store’s rejection of his iPhone app that accesses Project Gutenberg.
But even more to the point, what does a 14-year-old with an iPhone and unlimited credit card access (with which to buy Apps) want with Project...
Big Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“The majority of Californians say the state is headed in the wrong direction,”...”
– Californians Block a Budget; Big Cuts to Follow - NYTimes.com
Majority by no means a plurality, it seems.
“The lure of Asian authenticity is part of the appeal. Some American consumers...”
– Hot Stuff in a Squeeze Bottle - NYTimes.com
“In the next 12 months there will be a zettabyte of information on the Internet,”...”
– Social Networking & Dawn of the Zettabyte Era (via wreckandsalvage) (via tedr) (via mikehudack)
In bits, we’re about two orders of magnitude short of Avogadro’s number.
43 Countries Developing Military Killer Robots →
theresistance:
(via unspy)
Robots know no nationality, only flesh and not flesh.
The combination of 40 people on laptops all making their first sounds with PureData is pretty great.
“This time I took it much more seriously and developed an entire theory of media...”
– Steven Raymond - The Magic Cauldron