February 2012
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newspeedwayboogie:
Yo La Tengo - Somebody’s...
January 2012
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December 2011
8 posts
1 tag
Bye bye NYC (for a week) Animated with Loopcam for iPhone.
“To steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or...”
– Louis C.K. explains his appeal to the torrenters.
“To those who might wish to “torrent” this video: look, I don’t...”
– Louis CK: Live at the Beacon Theater
I do wish there was a PayPal alternative, though. Hate PayPal.
“When he was asked, toward the end of lunch, where he thought computing might be...”
– Neal Stephenson, in the NYT.
How Louis C.K. Greets His Email Subscribers
Thanks for subscribing to the Louis C.K. email list. I swear to Christ* I will not bother you now that I have your email.
*(of course I mean Bill Christ, who owns a Fiat dealership in Ronkonkoma, NY and has diabetes)
November 2011
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Robotic Steampunk Cheetah
From Andrew Chase, via Inspiration Green’s Auto Parts Art archive.
October 2011
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Remember when Amazon took back those George Orwell Kindle books it didn’t have the right to sell and it was Orwellian and creepy? This is the good, ask permission, variation on it. Still a little Orwellian and creepy though. Also apt that this is a Neal Stephenson book:
“Hello,
We’re writing about your past Kindle purchase of Reamde: A Novel by Neal Stephenson. The version...
September 2011
6 posts
3 tags
WatchHow to sell music, 2011 edition:
You can buy Wilco’s new album on their site, on Amazon, on iTunes, etc. And you can also hear it for free, with their blessing, all over the Web. Which is basically how you have to do it these days. This embed (assuming it works) comes from CBS, which does these cool shows after Letterman tapes. And here’s NPR, because we’re old. Note that Wilco...
“TechCrunch is still very much identified with founder Michael Arrington, though...”
– Me! From September 27, 2010. Not remotely claiming clairvoyance. Just noting that this was on everyone’s radar from the jump.
“If the Internet and television are going to converge, we need to know a lot more...”
– Smart stuff via Bus Your Own Tray, the place to see what @ericspiegelman has to say. That said, fair warning: This story revolves around a Steely Dan retrospective, which will please and/or dismay you. 50/50, I bet.
August 2011
2 posts
“There has been a great deal of vacuous nonsense written over the past few days...”
– Bernstein Research’s Craig Moffett shreds the “Motorola helps Google take over your living room” argument (you’ll need to register to read the whole thing). My milder, less smart version.
Among The Thugs
Don’t know why it took me a week to remember this, but one of my favorite all-time books is “Among the Thugs,” by Bill Buford*. It’s about British soccer violence in the early 80s, and Buford embeds himself with the hooligans to figure out what makes them tick, assuming that they’re engaged in some kind of social protest. Instead he discovers that mass violence is...
July 2011
4 posts
WatchAmazing, obsessive documentary about the amazing, obsessive Stanley Kubrick. Told by the guy who unexpectedly gets the chance to root through the director’s super-secret archives.
Bonus is this piece, written by same guy, for the Guardian, four years before movie was finished.
June 2011
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May 2011
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April 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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December 2010
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WatchWhat an awesome way to spend Conde Nast’s time and money: Wired intro/promotional video for @pattonoswalt’s new essay on geek culture. http://bit.ly/hlPlR7
November 2010
5 posts
Stevie Wonder - He’s Misstra Know It All
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