February 2012
7 posts
DOs and DON'Ts for this Week
DO pet things that explicitly request to be petted. DO NOT lick things that seem to want to be licked. DO assemble a plate of cheese, crackers, and lunch meat from your fridge for an impromptu “deli dinner”. DO NOT buy cheese, crackers, or lunch meat for the purpose of a planned “deli dinner.” DO watch for cars. DO NOT get hit by a car. DO find someone with freckles and kiss them. DO NOT pinch...
Revisionism
Bambi was based on a critically novel written for adults. What other surprises do children’s movies have in store?
Old Yeller is about a spacechild who adopts a star. It’s about to go nova, and he has to detonate it with nuclear weapons so it becomes a black hole instead. Nova is the galactic equivalent of rabies.
To Kill a Mockingbird is about programs from competing operating...
Spelling
I just tried to write out the last four months of the year really quickly and here is what came out:
Spetedmber
Octoboer
Novemb erre
Devetmter
January 2012
7 posts
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Advice towards a Non-Consumptive Nerd Culture
I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of nerd culture as hypercapitalist and reactionary. A friend asked me how a person who recognized that nerd culture has become unpleasant might differentiate him or herself from the consumptive model of apolitical consumer-centric nerdism.
(Author disclosure: I do not identify as a nerd. But as a white man with a kind of weird personality and...
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christ-the-retweeter:
“nerd culture” is a hypercapitalist extension of regular culture i think
i mean think about it, there’s literally nothing that defines the “culture” beyond shared experiences of media consumption
you basically have to spend money to be able to take part, it’s the falsest thing imaginable
and seeing as how it’s basically the new mainstream (and what better way to make...
SMELL MY WILD FLAVORS
tphd:
HERE IS A THING I WROTE CALLED “SMELL MY WILD FLAVORS” I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AND ALSO THAT YOU HAVE A NICE WEEKEND
SMELL EM
Contents of My Coffee Table
An owl feather, a bottle of ink, a vial of melted snow, a soap dish of full of Sacajawea dollars with an “L” on them, a yellow toy bicycle, half a roll of masking tape, a bottle of pufferfish spines, an Outkast CD, a leather pen case full of pens, two scissors, one very large, one small, a skinning knife, a stack of folded vintage kimono fabric, a cow’s tooth, two empty...
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December 2011
17 posts
“The universe is your prison, or is it a womb?”
– One last quote from my dad. This time about…well, everything, I guess.
“Got any surprisingly nanotechnology that’ll heal me?”
– My dad again, this time about his Lyme disease.
“I have some genetic traits I should tell you about.”
– My dad, calling to tell me about his hypothyroid condition.
Watchbashford:
James Bridle speaking about the New Aesthetic at Web Directions South.
“Waving at the machines”, a 50-minute, 120-slide vector through the idea, an idea that still seems massive and nebulous, but which it is possible to fire a laser through and illuminate some motes. I’m not sure I managed to phrase the camouflage stuff quite right, and the need for an ending always feels like a...
The Divergent Timeline of Lego: Space
ckck:
Friday Mini-Feature: Space Lego of the 80s (and late 70s).
Also known as the best Lego ever made.
Lego’s Space line was obviously, my favorite Lego line. I had sets from the 80s to nearly the 90s.
Looking back at it now, it’s initial striking how mundane and rooted in actual space exploration technology some of the sets were.Things got weirder pretty quickly, though.
The...
November 2011
9 posts
“Now, take out your favorite Magical And Revolutionary Technology Device. Use it...”
– Brett Victor - A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design (via bashford)
He’s not incorrect. But we gain as well as lose. When you think about technology, don’t think about loss or gains. You’ll just end up either angry or glassy-eyed. Think about change instead, because...
October 2011
7 posts
New Halloween Tradition
Today, sit down with your loved ones. Have some candy or a meal.
Then go around the room and have every person list one thing they’re terrified of.
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UseNet in Real-time
http://olduse.net/
Usenet, updated in real time as it was thirty years ago. Also available in your local news reader via nntp.olduse.net.
A very effective use of real-time presentation, prefigured by the various projects that convey pre-internet diaries in real time (e.g. Pepys’ Diary).
The blog format is on the very of becoming something in which to create art, not just commentary....
September 2011
17 posts
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