February 2009
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January 2009
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The Mayor [feat. The Cool Kids / Ghostface Killah...
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Bruce Sterling: 2009 Will Be A Year of Panic →
Worth reading in its entirety. This quote is about the elderly:
There’s nothing so entirely predictable as demographic change. Obviously we’re facing enormous booming hordes of elderly. Yet no one is confronting that issue. People remain in denial. They’re hoping a miracle will turn up, like, for instance, the sudden disinterest of a demographic majority who always vote.
Even...
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“The Genius Bar wasn’t much help in this case, because I’m certain...”
– Tycho
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WatchSo Nine Inch Nails was denied permission by its former label, Interscope Records, to film an expensive concert DVD that included songs Interscope legally owned. Naturally, the band’s response was to drop 400GB of HD footage from three concerts, each filmed from three different angles, on its BitTorrent tracker, with a message to their fans to edit to their heart’s content. The more...
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“I’VE BEEN ATTACKED FOR BEING ME… FOR BEING BRIGHT RED IN A GREY...”
– Kanye West. It was really hard to pick out the best parts.
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Tarvuism created by the producers of "Look Around... →
Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz are currently developing a Tarvuism-focused television show for Adult Swim.
Here is the fake religion’s official website and hilarious Tim-and-Eric-esque introductory video.
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“Someday, we’re gonna look back on this period as this golden age of...”
– Ira Glass
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Thank God for the $650 million going to the Digital-To-Analog Converter Box Program “to ensure a timely conversion of analog to digital television.” That’s more than the Navy gets for maintenance, more than the Indians get for infrastructure, more than the Small Business Administration gets for making loans, and of course, more important to a “timely” economic recovery. Sick.
I’m extremely...
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25 Things
For the most part, I tend to resist memes, but apparently my breaking point is when five of my otherwise totally sensible acquaintances get caught up in them. So here are the 25 facts about myself. Thank you, Ms. Piekut? I guess?
1. Default fact: In senior year of high school, I sword-fought my English teacher’s six-year-old child while moving around in a swivel chair. I let him win after...
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WatchNokia E71 Launch Promo by Universal Everything
Another one from the archives. This is amazing - and the lack of any branding whatsoever sort of pushes it out of the advertising category altogether.
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“This NYT article is written to give the impression that ‘many students and...”
– Brendan O’Kane, in a blog post which hilariously destroys last Sunday’s NYTimes article on Chinese hip-hop. Both are definitely worth a read. [via Danwei]
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"Very Bad Things" - Luhks →
A rare negative review of the Season 5 LOST premiere over at DarkUFO. I usually don’t link to recaps, but this one is very well-written. An equally insightful rebuttal by one “BillyPilgrim” can be found in the comments section of the post.
Are the days gone, when Lost episodes showed mysterious things and allowed the audience to craft their own explanations for them? Has Lost...
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WatchTitle sequence by Cassiano Prado
Just posting up some things I’ve saved to my computer in recent months.
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“It is tight. It is cramped. It is hot. It probably isn’t completely safe to have...”
– Ken Salazar, the new Secretary of the Interior, on the Statue of Liberty’s crown
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“After staring at the data, I strongly believe that we need to stop talking about...”
– Danah Boyd on her conclusions after co-directing the Internet Safety Technical Task Force Report
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“I don’t know anything about Twilight aside from how often the vampire guy...”
– IWatchStuff
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Woman Says Anti-Abortion Nurse Removed IUD Without... →
A clinic nurse first removed her intrauterine birth-control device without permission, says the patient in a federal action, then told her that “having the IUD come out was a good thing,” because “I personally do not like IUDs. I feel they are a type of abortion. I don’t know how you feel about abortion, but I am against them.” Defendant Olona stated, ‘Everyone in the office always...
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Divider - Hit Factory
Wasn’t going to...
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WatchOut of all the inaugural festivities, Obama-penned addresses and farewell-Bush tributes, this bit from the Colbert Report was the one that managed to really move me. I agree that it isn’t productive to focus on investigating the Bush administration for crimes while in office when there are much more pressing issues to face in the present, but it’ll probably be years or decades before...
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I love bombast, it is the funniest.
This is...
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“I will not do a guest spot on their show until they get a title. I will not do...”
– Will Arnett on Amy Poehler’s new show [via E! / Vulture]
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Boston Globe cutting 12% of newsroom →
Obviously an inevitable move, but still weird to see it happen locally.
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WatchThe Remnants [written/directed by John August]
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“Vincent the dog is the only character the producers have committed to keeping...”
– LA Times on LOST. Yes!!
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Does following the news work? →
I’ve been steeped in hundreds of pages of coverage of growth and development in Columbia, MO. The articles I’ve been reading came from the Columbia Missourian and the Columbia Daily Tribune; I read them in chronological order from 2001 to now. I can tell you the names, affiliations and positions of all the key players. I can cite a number of City Council ordinances and infrastructure financing...
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TVs Transform at This Year’s CES →
A good review of announcements at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show if you haven’t been following the news. Highlights include built-in Netflix streaming on new LG televisions and widgets from companies like Yahoo and Myspace running as video overlays on your screen.
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