December 2009
27 posts
Crazy fact: One of the guys from One Inch Punch became one of the guys in She Wants Revenge.
Does anyone have a spare router and/or useful length of network cable that could be borrowed for some smallish morsel of time?
I’m picking up a couple of guest DJ slots here in the near future.
Also watched latest Sanctuary. First I was tired of them killing main characters. Now I’m tired of them pretending to kill main characters
Trendspotting: Watched American Zombie last night and one of them had KMFDM and Snog posters on the wall (along with others I didn’t make out).
WatchClash of the Titans trailer (via lsd)
“Rejecting the pristine gallery used by MoMA’s Project Series for emerging...”
– Art - Gabriel Orozco’s Whale of a Return to MoMA - NYTimes.com
Warm, intriguing ambient music from Macabro: http://ping.fm/fMWAm
Latest LP available for free download.
“It is a lucrative business that has drawn financiers from the Somali diaspora...”
– Somali sea gangs lure investors at pirate lair | Reuters
“Just imagine, for a moment, how China would act if it had cause to believe that...”
– Open the Future: A Cold War Over Warming
“Heresy became easier to communicate, and Saenger postulates that word spacing...”
– On Language - Against Camel Case - NYTimes.com
Very interesting take on trademarks and grammar. As far as I remember, I was taught that product and company names, like proper names, should be written as the company decides. But why should we allow the rules of grammar to be subjected to such...
“The thing is, I really like saying yes. I like new things, projects, plans,...”
– AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVE EGGERS
This is from an email Dave Eggers wrote in 2000, mostly on the topic of “selling out”. I think he’s absolutely right, especially on the point that being concerned with whether others think you’re selling out or not is juvenile, and something that hopefully most of us...
“The concept of a right to question has become corrupted into the assum- ption of...”
– saving ink | blogging the journalistic transformation
“The Toba eruption, which took place on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia about...”
– Ancient Volcano’s Devastating Effects Confirmed | LiveScience
“Camara was shot in the head, either during the coup, or in the violence that...”
– ComingAnarchy.com » The Original Coming Anarchy: Violence in West Africa
“The left brain tries to fit the data to the theory to preserve a coherent...”
– Less Wrong: The Apologist and the Revolutionary
“After a right-hemisphere stroke, she lost movement in her left arm but...”
– Less Wrong: The Apologist and the Revolutionary
“Her most recent adventure was a three day festival of underground brutal death...”
– Magazine Justina Villanueva | Issue Basements, Blood and Noise | MagCloud
“A Nov. 26 article in the District edition of Local Living incorrectly said a...”
– Truly the best newspaper correction ever made happened at the washingtonpost.com.
