December 2007
I got 3.5 hours of sleep last night. Why am I awake?! Come on body, cooperate.
— courtneyc
heartexplosion.com
Why can’t I think of a domain this cool? And why like it’s owner did I only sleep a few hours last night? And why is it so freaking sunny outside? I’ve even got an urge to clean my house.
Our Lo-Fi Future: and other misspellings
I’ve seen the future and it’s full of errors.
I’ve seen misspelled words on nytimes.com.
I’ve followed dead links on digg.com.
I don’t think it matters much any more.
1121212121212121
11122222111111221
111122211122111111
1111111121112111111
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Pretty soon the machines won’t even care.
[Edit] Talk about prescience....
The Cultural Resolution
Theater - city block
TV - living room
Computer - lap
You Always Walk Right Out That Door by The Death...
“I’m following the $PATH to guru devastation.”
– Me
Benjamin Walker's 2007 TOP TENish at WMFU's BotB →
Babbling winter creek ORRRR...
The Jorge Luis Borges Insults Project
The light you emit is insufficient and unceasing.-The Library of Babel
*please add to this list
“You know “that look” women get when they want sex? Me neither.”
– Steve Martin
FT.com Columnists Martin Wolf - The dangers of... →
Love In the Time of Open Source Software.
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And speaking of holiday gifts, WCBS reports on the trend of medical gift cards. Brazil, the great film, seems closer with each passing day:
MOTHER: By the way, I saw a wonderful idea for Christmas presents at the chemists. Gift tokens. Medical gift tokens.
MRS TERRAIN: Oh, that sounds marvelous.
MOTHER: Yes, they’re good at any doctor’s and at many of the major hospitals —...
is this the new version of the male cheerleader? →
— lfarm
Wow, is CNN ripping off the low-key, poignant narrative style of This American Life in this or what?
Mason Jennings, Butterfly. Mason is becoming a...
eBay: Drive Someone Insane with Postcards →
I hope Cultrvultr does this to me, Go read the description of this eBay auction, I think it’s genius. — livejamie
Postfuck.
I have a pretty hardcore "thing" for Michael Palin
I love reading his old interviews. I’ll probably be making a trip to the library to rent the newest travel series he did. The last one I saw was from 1997. In high school, I sent him an autographed picture of myself. He sent a personalized one of himself back to me. — andreaallen
Rad, the only other person I’ve come across who (potentially) rents Michael Palin’s travel...
“Being-at-home, Heidegger says, is not the “primordial phenomenon.” ...”
– Wayne Koestenbaum’s Hotel Theory
“Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans...”
– Ron Paul
I can’t believe I just quoted Ron Paul.
We must automate serendipity
I’d prefer my tumblog tumbled not by the clock but by the thought. And when I revisit thoughts they pop back to the top. They’d otherwise flow downhill but the time of day wouldn’t really enter into it.
First repost. Questions: What do we learn
What do we learn? What lessons do groups of people, for instance countries, learn? Of these lessons how often are pragmatic solutions applied when similar situations present themselves? What are the impediments to these lessons learned? At what point does circumspect displace ideology?
A Macbook Pro with 4Gb of ram is much, much better than one with 2.
Like a garden
I’ve found myself revisiting my posts, cleaning them up a bit, clarfiying them, fixing typos, adding new links, and otherwise tending to my tumblelog. It’s kind of a brain-off activity, sort of busywork; it feels good. I need to consciously bring some physical mindlessness into my life, ie, start exercising. Reggie has started a rigorous personal trainer program and I’m jealous...
“The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people...”
– —
Michael Gerber
I love the movie Joe Versus the Volcano.
Exhaustive collection of philosophy lectures →
I’ve spend the better part of this afternoon going through Noah Kalina’s photos on flickr. He is an amazing photographer. The lighting is so dead on he must be metering on the metaphysical level.
The Pope condemns the climate change prophets of... →
Pope Benedict XVI has launched a surprise attack on climate change prophets of doom, warning them that any solutions to global warming must be based on firm evidence and not on dubious ideology.
- Isn’t it ironic that the Pope asks for firm evidence on global warming (evidence we have) ignoring THE most dubious ideology of all (that he professes)?
— brigno
Del.icio.us irony.
600% →
Percent the cost of government paper-shredding has increased since President Bush took office. USASpending tracked how the government spent $452,807 on contracts for paper-shredding services in 2000, only to see that number rise astronomically to over $2.9 million in 2006. — cultrvultr
Words fail me. Facial expressions don’t.
“Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich stärker.”
– Nietzsche
Flickr Stats →
“There are stats available for people surfing on Flickr itself - where the referrer is flickr.com - and stats about people coming from other websites. We can show you the sorts of things people search for on search engines where your photos turn up, and tell you how many views your photos have in a week, or for all time.”
— peterbaker
Not first with the idea but at least they...
Lost in Translation
I once knew a person whose one sentence review of this movie was, “Why should I give a fuck about some old guy in Japan?” Well, I do and have since the first time I saw the movie but probably couldn’t give you much of a coherent reason why.
The last scene of the film is slightly controversial because it has the two protagonists sharing a moment but not with the audience. What...
Bob Brozman
Bob Brozmanbio has to be one of the most under appreciated musical artists alive. While his music doesn’t veer into the contemporary it certainly covers every other imaginable area of musical interest known or nearly forgotten. He’s a virtuoso guitarist, ukuleleist, charangist, ethnomusicologist, prodigious performer, researcher, teacher, linguist, anthropologist. He’s played...
Human genetic evolutionary conveniences in healthy...
We don’t regularly urinate on ourselves while we sleep.
*Please add to this list if you’re feeling thankful for something.
Btw while we’re making laws can someone please make one that says that previous and next links always point in the same temporal direction?
New favorite blog to obsess over →
Living For Others
Why do I feel so guilty turning off my cell phone when I want some alone time?
— jakoblodwick
It’s getting harder and harder to disconnect without offending. People want immediate access and have many means for gaining it. What’s worse? There will come a time when it’s not just your friends being offending but also your internets. The machine man will be knocking on your...
"Give in to the joy of cheesy-ness!"
Continuing the discussion about why people find it “uncool” to be excited about so-called “cheesy” stuff, from a very bright reader, Laura (I really like her explanation): “So I’ve actually thought about this a lot. to some extent, it’s the idea that optimism is intellectually vapid. being cynical is seen as being smart (read: cool & edgy). cynics...
the sun's not yellow it's chicken
dear sunburned chicken on the road,
i plucked your feathers while you died and let them float away on car breezes. can you forgive me?
WatchOur robot overlords. It’s particularly stirring to me when robot overlord number two enters the scene.