May 2010
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April 2010
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March 2010
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5-4-3-2-1....lift off!
Miss Pattern and I just booked our hotel room in Flordia for Sept 15/16…. We’ve talked a lot about making this trip, and now it’s gonna happen. You see, the Space Shuttle fleet is being retired by NASA this year, and the 16th of Sept is the final launch day scheduled. I’m super excited to get to see the final shuttle launch, as I’e seen 2 shuttle launches live when I was a kid. Though the...
January 2010
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December 2009
1 post
WatchMassive Attack (w/ Hope Sandoval) - Paradise Circus (from Heligoland, out Feb. 9th) [Via http://twitter.com/haute_muffy via debauchette]
Auto start, yeah. Sorry.
*AHEM* Not, I repeat, NSFW. Now remember, as adults you must be sheperded like children in a thunderstorm. Fear your own shadow. Don’t talk to strangers. Fall in line. And for fuckity fuck’s sake, stay away from...
November 2009
1 post
why Maker ethics might save us all
Creativity and Curiosity often go hand in hand, and both are discouraged in our society. Sure, we may talk big about them, but take a moment to think about the last time you came up with a truly outrageous idea, how the people around you reacted. What about the last time you went on a learning binge? Did the people around you look at you oddly? If not, count yourself lucky. Come on a bit of a jump...
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
4 posts
Borrow The Indifference (Ed. I'm a spectator here...
- Written By ‘Siva de Ferrera [A.K.A. Keith Ferrera] Mail will be delivered by telepathy in 18 months. They are beta testing it now.
V0.86’s only bug to speak of is that files larger than 100MB make the recipient breakdown in tears. V0.97ALPHA fixes that bug and only at 1.2GB does the recipientstart to drool and recite screenplays from old Kaptain Kangaroo episodes. RC 1.0 will...
August 2009
3 posts
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Twenty Years Hence, A Fierce Ecology
As the world changes, so do our needs. As our needs change so does the world.
Who needed literacy 20,000 years ago? Who needed the internet just twenty years ago? In just twenty years hence, you might need a garden and a second head complete with penile attachment. To show you’re stylish and forward thinking, perhaps you’ll grow the garden on your clothes and your second head not only has the...
Nostalgic tales of media piracy
Afflicted with yet another Winter plague, I spent the better part of the waking hours of the past four days burning through the DVD box-set of Neon Genesis Evangelion, a show I had missed first time round.
Whilst discussing this landmark anime with my buddy the daniel, he shared the story of how he had earnestly tracked down taped copies of the show from a “supernerd” in California.
...
July 2009
3 posts
Epic Road-kill →
A fin whale — a threatened species in Canada — was found dead and firmly wedged against the bow of a cruise ship following its arrival from Alaska.
Birth Of A MicroNation, Part One: Declaration Of...
It was a cold afternoon on the 24th July that a new national flag was hoisted proudly toward a cloudy, winter sky. It’s founder, sole Citizen and Supreme Leader raised a three-finger salute as the wind caught the cerulean blue pillow case - haphazardly emblazoned with thirteen yellow stars encircling a silhoetted Neil Patrick Harris.
A single patriotic tear slid softly down his cheek at the...
June 2009
3 posts
NNY Twitters (And frightens Monty Python...
If you were like me, you found Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (And the superior SQUEE!) in a Hot Topic. It’s okay, you can admit it. The place had it’s time. Point being, it outlived Hot Topic, due to the quality of the work (Happy Noodle Boy aside).
There’s a reason Vasquez went on to assault the world (Thank fucking christ) with Invader Zim: He’s a comic genius. Funny...
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Fuel For Your Nightmares: Coconut Crabs
The coconut crab, Birgus latro, is the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and is probably at the upper limit of how big terrestrial animals with exoskeletons can become.[1] The species inhabits the coastal forest regions of many Indo-Pacific islands, although localized extinction has occurred where the crab is sympatric with man. Generally nocturnal, they remain hidden during the day and...
The Samurai Umbrella!
Just in time for the start of the Japanese rainy season (tsuyu) the Samurai Umbrella is here! An umbrella that can be worn, sheathed and unsheathed like a samurai sword (katana) has become all the rage among Japanese men in their 30s and 40s.
Gear up and change a rainy day into a childhood dream! ;)
Original Japanese article (with photo slide show) from Walker
Yeah, I’m...
May 2009
6 posts
Temp Electro Body Mod
Body paint that conducts electricity.
You heard me.
(http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2009-05/01/body-paint-that-conducts-electricity.aspx)
A Possible City-Future
I’m going to combine two ideas here: that of cloud computing and that of wireless networks. In a lot of ways they depend on each other: cloud computing is certainly enhanced by wireless, and wireless has really come into its full through cloud computing. I feel that this combination is an important step in both technical progress and also the acclimatization of culture into this mindset of...
Hadopi, french three strikes law adopted →
As ridiculous as it sounds, and after the European Parliament clearly stated by the re-adoption of the amendment 138/46 that access to Internet was a fundamental right, the French National Assembly accepted the Hadopi bill.
The bill will directly reach the French Senate tomorrow, and will be probably voted the same way, without any surprise, since the French President N. Sarkozy made a point he...
Pandemic Danny
©2009, Made in DNA
Danny sat quietly, a sporadic jerk the only thing punctuating his otherwise silent countenance. His left eye had gone milky white with cataract, his skin was a mottled yellow and sickly, and despite the fair temperature of the room on a fine spring morning, whispery rivulets of sweat snuck their way down his hot brow passed his earlobe until they found a hiding spot under his...
Relevance
This week, I want you to try to be relevant. It’s up to you to decide what is relevant for you and your followers, but I have a few suggestions to help you out. 1. Filtering yourself is the first and foremost. Everything which follows is just examples of this. 2. Unless it’s an emergency, wait at least 15 minutes to post something. If you forget it or it no longer matters, it probably...
April 2009
10 posts
Logical Techno Manners: The Modern Master is Not...
We’ve all suffered below him. The back-slappy, happy manager who calls you buddy, wonders why you aren’t smiling and crawls all up in your bidness. And we’ve all suffered above them. The goofy, flare-wearing worker who believes friendliness is a substitute for competence.
At my job, I was once smoking Dunhill’s Aperitif blend and a co-worker looked at the tin.
“Which one...
Brothers Fighting by MA46.
MA46 phase-shifted...
MADBALLS: Grodie Inner Child Boogaloo the Remake
(Note: Tumblr is entirely counter-intuitive to me. I began blogging with LJ. Hence, my posts here will undoubtedly be less…sleek, than other’s. Instead of beating my head against my comp, I’m settling with just links, and no vids. I just work here. Blame management.)
Yep. Child of the eighties. Transformers. Kreepy Krawlers. Garbage Pail Kids. My Pet Monster. Inhumanoids....
Watchvia Core77
Holodeck, here we come!
I wonder where our future ideas of “inside” and “outside” will be, of “online” and “offline.”
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Azor aime pas le minitel 2.0*
When I was a kid, our home shared its main door with a copper shop. The owner was an adorable woman with three dogs: two cute yorkshires and an awful poodle. Each time I had to leave for school back then, I was taking a moment to pet each dog, except the poodle because as the saying goes, he was as dumb as aggressive. And fortunately, remarkably slow.
The stupid creature had a fascinating habit: ...
March 2009
10 posts
communication technlogy
There’s something I sometimes forget about my tech-friendly, comic-book-reading, dark-humored friends. They’re introverts. Sometimes I even forget that I’m an introvert. We all get along so easily that, when introducing one set of friends to another, I often wonder why everyone is being so quiet instead of the outrageously funny charmers I know them all to be. So here’s the...
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Horror Therapy: Fuck Willful Ignorance
As a staunch horror fan, I’m used to meeting people who have nothing positive to say about the genre. Who just don’t “get it”. Ironically, the same lot typically think of comic books as being juvenile, but that’s a discussion for later. They can’t see the worth of the thing. And, for my part, I begrudge no one this, despite it being an obvious sign on their...
Logical Techno Manners: I, Eyeborg; I, Blogorg
Canadian film maker Rob Spence is getting a cyborg camera eye. He’ll use this to secretly record people for a movie about the upcoming surveillance society.
Looking at a cell phone camera, he realized that a camcorder could now fit into an empty eye socket. And since he had just had his eye removed — related to a childhood shooting accident— he figured he might as well use...
The ZOMFather: I'm so Zomblogging this
So you have a chance to meet a boyhood hero.
One George A. Romero (*A wonderful human being, should you care to know*). Director/Writer/Allaroundfilmicguru. He who gave the world Night of the Living Dead. Dawn of the Dead. Martin. Angry Wives (*AKA Season of the Witch*). Day of the Dead. CREEPSHOW (*My son demanded I tell George this is his favorite movie*). Tales from the Darkside. Land of the...
Logical Techno Manners: Dinner With Cthulhu
The weekend is coming up and the phone is ringing off the hook. You don’t want to answer because you already know who it is. It’s Cthulhu and It’s probably wondering why you guys never hang out any more.
Unwilling to offend this ancient horror from the other side, you finally realize that you must find something to do together. But what? Your new friends probably don’t...
February 2009
5 posts
Logical Techno Manners From First Potty Principles
pic from here
A man yaks on the cell phone. Another ignores his dinner companion in favour of his blackberry. Yet another pulls out a digital camera and starts barking orders, only to shatter a friendship because of a tag on an ugly photograph. This is the modern world.
And, if you think it’s bad now, just wait until the Internet completely normalizes both pornography and exhibitionism....
Love and Violence
Growing up in the 80s, there were only two types of love song. The creepy I’m-so-in-love-with-you-you’re-everything-I’ll-ever-need-lemme-lock-you-in-a-cage-and-smother-you. And the alternate It-didn’t-work-out-oh-how-I’ll-miss-you-goodbye-but-you’re-my-ONE-forever. And of the two types, almost all of them were tacky. But that’s another discussion,...