October 2009
107 posts
September 2009
78 posts
embody:
zachrose:
Nobody cares about bad websites in the summer.
It’s strange that each summer they seem to care a little more.
Gone are the summers when we didn’t care about bad websites. Or, Every summer they seem to care a little more about everything.
Nobody cares about bad websites in the summer.
“we had imagined adding in some info about the next bus and train arrival times,...”
– unrealized ideas for uowhitestag.info (via zachrose)
One day Matthew Stadler’s internet will come to pass and the world will become that much more sensualized.
(via embody)
It’s true. Embody, who are you anyways? Hit me up: zachrose@gmail.com.
Old man's car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
“we had imagined adding in some info about the next bus and train arrival times,...”
– unrealized ideas for uowhitestag.info
“We are in open circuits.”
– Nam June Paik
“I think it was Mr Hill (possibly via the medium of Mr Jones) who introduced me...”
– russell davies: ruricomp
Help!
There’s an article that’s been on Tumblr a few times in the last year or so.
It’s about drone planes, and the psychological and ethical territory they open up.
At one point there was mention of a pilot who flies missions in Afghanistan from a computer lab in the US and then goes home to his kids at night.
Does anyone have a link?
“If we want to go into virtual-reality mode, nanobots will shut down brain...”
– Immortality only 20 years away says [Ray Kurzweil] - Telegraph
Isn’t the internet good enough already?
“Uh, I’d love to say we have a plan,” Torvalds replied to applause...”
– Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ • The Register
John Steinbeck IV - Wikipedia, the free... →
“The fact that students today almost always write for an audience (something...”
– Clive Thompson on the New Literacy
For some reason I was at Safeway last week and I was thinking about how the act of publishing is completely left out of academic writing education. For a moment I imagined myself as a high school English teacher who only gave credit for papers that we’re...
Reminiscence bump - Wikipedia, the free... →
“Quoting an inside source, the German economic newspaper,...”
– IBM Forcing All Employees to Stop Using Microsoft Office
If it weren’t for IE 6, I might not despise Microsoft with the fire of 1,000 suns. Until then…
Kanye West is a proxy for Joe Wilson.
What is Taylor Swift is a proxy for?
Stop Giving the Newspapers Your Advice →
azspot:
While we have all been busy telling the newspaper institution what they should do differently we have missed one big point: Institutions are structured to precisely NOT do much of anything different.
The number one thing that ails newspapers? 70% of all costs lie in physical distribution and printing while readership and revenues have dramatically moved away from paper. This leads to a...
“At least you’re not cold calling mentally ill rape victims asking them...”
– Allison
“It wasn’t clear from the US military announcement whether the erratic...”
– Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed by US jet • The Register
Somebody please make autonomous robots that build houses or help old ladies across the street. They don’t even have to work, they can just be clumsy and endearing.
