January 2010
96 posts
tumbletumbleweed:
“In bed next to a girl he loves, he forgets that he does not know why he is himself instead of the body he touches… they will never find anything but parodic images, and they will fall asleep as empty mirrors.” Bataille
Neil Gaiman’s fantasies : The New Yorker →
Neil Gaiman profile in New Yorker.
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“In other words,” The Register’s Lew Page notes, “any code you write, perhaps...”
– Pentagon Searches for ‘Digital DNA’ to Identify Hackers | Danger Room | Wired.com
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WatchRelevance to current day? Zero. Most habits and mannerism’s of the typical, 90’s media enhanced hacker can be seen on current episodes of Hoarders. A lot of the motivations seen here are gone.
I’d love to see something more contemporary on the topic. Black hats who are using b0tnets for nefarious means. Or political dissidents using open-source products to break through government...
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A Celebration of David Foster Wallace →
peterwknox:
Nine peers pay tribute with a talk or essay. Strong suggestion.
Amy Wallace-Havens is David’s sister. She is a deputy public defender in southern Arizona. Bonnie Nadell is vice president of Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Agency in Los Angeles. Gerry Howard is an executive editor at large for Doubleday. Colin Harrison is a novelist, and a vice president and senior editor at Scribner....
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“Thank you for coming. And thank you to President Obama for asking me to deliver...”
– The iState of the Union: Steve Jobs delivers the annual presidential address. - By Christopher Beam and Josh Levin - Slate Magazine
Boom indeed.
Stuff White People Like: Wes Anderson movies →
youmightfindyourself:
White people love Wes Anderson movies more than they love their kids. If a white guy takes a white girl to a Wes Anderson movie on their first date, and neither of them have seen it, they will immediately commence a relationship that is reflected in songs by Ryan Adams and Bright Eyes.
Wes Anderson movies have this way of being sort of funny and a little clever, so white...
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Ghost Bikes | ghost bikes →
Ghost Bikes are small and somber memorials for bicyclists who are killed or hit on the street. A bicycle is painted all white and locked to a street sign near the crash site, accompanied by a small plaque. They serve as reminders of the tragedy that took place on an otherwise anonymous street corner, and as quiet statements in support of cyclists’ right to safe travel.
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“I get up very early in the morning, and I drink lots of coffee. I am computer...”
– James Ellroy
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YouTube - Music Discovery Project →
(via waxy links)
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“I start work each day at about 745am, which is when my wife and kid leave for...”
– Whitechapel - The Brian Wood Residency
“We don’t make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.”
– Walt Disney (via jameshall)
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I MISS MY PENCIL →
This website focuses on experiments that explore the sensorial and experiential side of the everyday. These explorations are made real through collaboration between designers and experts of all kinds—a renegade physicist, a fusion chef, a whip-smart mistress, an artisanal mechanic—to go beyond the conceptual to the curiously concrete. So, if you’re interested in how to skateboard on eggshells,...
