randomWalks

Not content with being merely evil, criminal, and spammy, they now seek to be outright creepy and repulsive.

When the company that bought the brand itself went out of business in 2001, Peterman bought the name back with the help of John O’Hurley, the actor who played J. Peterman on “Seinfeld.”

Facebook can now tell if you’ve purchased a product that was advertised to you on Facebook.

Those killed by US drone attacks in Pakistan are more or less automatically deemed “militants” by unnamed “officials”, and then uncritically called such by most of the western press – a practice that inexcusably continues despite revelations that the Obama administration has redefined “militants” to mean “all military-age males in a strike zone”.

Given a chance to be free of modern life, the body would naturally settle into a split sleep schedule.

Semi-autonomous flying things are already available to the public and will continue to become more available. Yet our intuitive privacy settings, our security forces, and our sense of property all assume humans on the ground. Let me posit this: Drones will make traditional fences as obsolete as gunpowder and cannons made city walls.

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Every opportunity to relate one part of the puzzle to another part of the puzzle is taken; no part of the puzzle is wasted. When designed well, this kind of puzzle means endless surprise, solving it means delving deeper and deeper; you become faimilar with every letter, every picture, every clue. It’s not just that it could be important—eventually it will be important. And by the time you’re finished, you know the puzzle better than you thought you ever could, and you rarely forget any part of it.

Tony Delgado: The Fool’s Errand

You must understand that haters have constructed an alternate reality around themselves, one where shitting on a perfect jewel is the equivalent of enlightenment. If you feel frustrated dealing with them, just imagine what it’s like inside their own heads!

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i12bent:

Robert Gibbons: On the Autumnal Equinox, 2012

I walk alone a lot, but not today, what with it being the last day of summer, & seriously, the earth & nature know this, the mind of earth & nature very palpable at Times like these Equinoxes & Solstices, where slender wheatgrass waves goodbye, New England asters emerge to say hello, the entire ground becomes animated, & stones one’s stared at before suddenly take on a new life of their own, tossing several glances (Pound’s phanopoeia) as unheard words in order to enhance, give wealth to our poor existences, & their own.

Some few, some very few, there are, who try the key of love in all life’s doors. Radiant, they turn to the men and women about and cry, “Try love! It unlocks all other doors as surely as it does the first in life. Try love!”

One irony of Mitt Romney’s leaked criticism of the 47% of Americans who don’t pay income tax is that Romney may be a member of the club himself since he pays almost no income tax relative to his vast wealth.

As long as the veg*n narrative is taken seriously, and we double-down on agriculture as a solution to the problem of overpopulation that it is the very cause of, we simply increase the human suffering that the failure of agriculture is inevitably hurtling toward.

Walking upright has a price in back problems. The capacity for tissue repair has a price of cancer. The immune response has a price of immune disorders. The price of anxiety is panic disorder. In each case, natural selection has done the best it can, weighing benefits against costs. Wherever the balance point, however, there will be disease.

"Generous" is the first word that comes to mind. Generous with his time, contacts, stuff and money. Maybe a little too generous sometimes with money—some people took advantage. Extraordinarily energetic; he wouldn’t stop working even when doctors told him to slow down. Meticulous in his research on causes. Sometimes he acted like a spoiled child, and I did see him stamp his feet and jump up and down on occasion.

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(via Bad Children’s Books — BobStaake.com)

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monkeyajb:

Important Observations

Turn right onto E Main St and then walk toward the heart of the city. If the city has no heart, give it one.

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Hooray! What was once a Walmart has become a 124,500 square foot public library.

Most people’s first mistake when walking is to know where they already are. Street names and recognisable sites should be avoided like the weekly chart countdown. If you know where you are, you cannot get lost. If you cannot get lost then you will constantly be distracted by things you have have already seen.

We don’t yet have the history of who was the Afrika Bambaataa of blogging. If there was a Sugar Hill Gang, if there was a “Planet Rock” of blogs, that was the stuff that I was around, and got to see. You were aware of it, you were like, this is going to win. This is going to take over the world.

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"Like full-spectrum hieroglyphs, these spray-painted dots are ‘infrastructural forensic evidence,’ in Foster’s words, marking the ritualistic elimination of insects from urban space." (via BLDGBLOG: Dot Urbanism)