January 2012
“After sex and sleep, bacon is one of nature’s most powerful primary reinforcers,...”
– In the middle of an article about games and “games”, this little gem.
The Zynga Abyss - Benjamin Jackson - Technology - The Atlantic
(via benkraal)
“From the economy and the collapse of the middle class to climate change and the...”
– Rogue Columnist (via azspot)
“[T]he only way out of … deadlock is an electoral rout of the GOP, since the...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via squashed)
IN THE TANK LOL
Michel Foucault: Free Lectures on Truth, Discourse... →
apolloniusofperga:
Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was an enormously influential French philosopher who wrote, among other things, historical analyses of psychiatry, medicine, the prison system, and the function of sexuality in social organizations. He spent some time during the last years of his life at UC Berkeley, delivering several lectures in English. And happily they were recorded for...
sprezzatur-ish asked: Do a youtube search for "zizek children of men" first and go from there. A recent book of his, "Living in the End Times," is a pretty accessible read and does a nice job of critiquing the current age through his Hegelian / Marxist worldview.
Two questions
I need a small tripod for an iPhone 4S. Recommendations?
I’ve never read any Zizek. Recommendations?
I see people criticising Zizek. What’s that about?*
*OK, OK, three questions. Jeez.
“The MPAA studios hate us. They hate us with region locks and unskippable screens...”
– The next SOPA – Marco.org (via robot-heart-politics)
Band name
The Violent Artichoke
iWeb for books
So, today’s Apple Education announcement included a way for anyone to create an eBook for iPad, with the potential to throw in all sorts of whizzy multimedia stuff to keep students awake. What turned out to be iBooks Author was trailed as Garageband for eBooks, but in fact (on the basis of playing around with it for a couple of hours when I should have been making dinner) is iWeb (the...
“If I sound biased, that’s because I am. Biased toward the actual record, not the...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via prettayprettaygood)
Occupy Andrew Sullivan
“One of the main reasons David Cameron enjoyed The King’s Speech is that it...”
– Charlie Brooker
John Edwards has a life-threatening condition that... →
mercurypdx:
baxterp2:
“…Doctors advised him to avoid travel and all court proceedings.”
Couldn’t have happened to a … guy.
Karma.
I blame the hair. OH GOD…THE HAIR
Band names
Monster Thermidor
The Uppity Blacks
Wu-Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard was "heavily... →
spiegelman:
93 pages!
Also:
Wu-Tang Clan are portrayed as a criminal organisation, co-ordinating drug-deals and homicides – sometimes with musical rewards. “Once individuals have proved themselves as good and loyal members,” officers claimed, “they are offered record contracts to record Rap type music.”
Rap type music!
vision and values - Google Search →
“The mind and its injuries are now being brought within the purview of mainstream...”
– William Davies, “The Political Economy of Unhappiness”
There are no nice guys.
We’re all cunts.
Interesting Experiment Using Capitalist Philosophy
anticapitalist:
My interpretation of that bullshit post about “Obama’s Socialism”
“An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Ron Paul’s libertarianism worked and that the free market would create prosperity
The professor then said, ‘OK, we will have an...
Black Lips - Can’t Dance
January is tough enough without positive thinking.
Far too much of it on my various dashboards.
You know who you are. Cut it out.
“The crisis has prompted a variety of responses from individuals and...”
– Norwegian butter crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via iamdanw)
Dangers of sleeping with a breakthrough Internet...
So I woke up at WTF o’clock, as usual. Rummaged around on Instapaper. Found this article about Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen off of Portlandia*. Read it. Found out she used to be in some Riot Grrl outfit called Sleater-Kinney (sounds like an advertising agency, but what do I know?), and now performs in Wild Flag. They sound like The Cars to me.
And then I went back to sleep.
*Courtesy of...
“The campaign is still a gigantic ritual and it will still be attended by all the...”
– Matt Taibbi
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“The Long Tail creates acres of choice, so much as to make the number of options...”
– How the long tail cripples bonus content/multimedia - The Domino Project (via datainsightsideas)
I note that The Domino Project is “powered by Amazon”.