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I just used a tissue from a brand new box that smelled exactly like cassette tape liner notes, particularly Depeche Mode's Music For the Masses and the Cure's Disintegration.
I just used a tissue from a brand new box that smelled exactly like cassette tape liner notes, particularly Depeche Mode's Music For the Masses and the Cure's Disintegration.
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Let’s see you do that in four lines of Java! Go Logo! Kick Java’s ass! Download UC Berkeley’s Logo for X11 Download a prettier Logo for Mac OS X
Right now, I’m trying to play the instrument, and I’m trying to write, without any restrictions of chord, keys, time, melody and harmony, but to resolve the idea eternally, where every person receives the same quality from it, without relating it to some person. New York Times: Seeking the Mystical Inside the Music: Listening with Ornette Coleman.
This site features the ways in which people modify and re-create technology. Herein a collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short – stuff as it is actually used, and not how its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, “The street finds its own uses for things.”
I welcome suggestions of links, and contributions from others to include in this compendium.
– KK Thanks to Rebecca’s Pocket for leading me to Kevin Kelley’s latest project.
The average American is 50 times more likely to die of accidental poisioning than due to terrorism. (source)
I was very concerned that when I grew up I would somehow be turned into this zombie who sat in front of the tv watching grown ups just talk.? What a horrible fate. I found out later this abominable program was called “the News.” I never watched it. Erin Pavlina’s Blog: Why I Never Watch the News I worry about the people I love who watch TV news. I think it’s emotionally and spiritually toxic.
randomWalks' greatest hits: One Evening When She Was Two
One day I told my students (freshmen at a prominent east-coast university) to pull out a piece of paper. They all did. I told them to print their names in the upper right-hand corner. They all did. I told them to tile the paper “A Syllabus of Syllables,” and then underline the title. They all did. I told them to write the following syllables next to the numbers: “ge, sha, la, urb, orb, go, vin, sko, sti, cer.” They all did. I told them to form a word from each of the syllables. They asked me a few questions - they wanted to be sure exactly what it was I wanted from them - and then they all hunched over their papers and did it. I told them to fold the paper in half. Deborah asked which way. I said lengthwise. Then I told them to hand in their papers. They all did. I stood there with a handful of 15 papers folded lengthwise. Everybody was looking at me.
Not one of them asked me why we were doing this. Not one of them told me to go screw myself. Not one of them – not one – even looked at me strange.
Why should they? Nothing strange had happened. this was school. School is where you give up your power, you do what you’re told, and you don’t ask questions. In school, we all learn not to care anymore, not even to care that we’re being humiliated, because everybody keeps telling us that we’re being educated.
If we sat around and deliberately tried to come up with a way to further enlarge the achievement gap, we might just invent homework. Elementary-school students shouldn’t do homework. By Emily Bazelon - Slate Magazine It’s being referred to as “the homework debate,” but I haven’t seen anybody argue that homework is good pedagogy. Hey, check this out: The word comes from the ancient Greek paidagogos, the slave who supervised the education of slave children in whatever given trade they were forced into. Children who lived in under the supervision of Paidagogos were always slaves as no free person took orders from a slave. It was the Paidagogos job to act as a “Drill Sergeant”, and insure that the slaves performed their daily routines as expected by their Master. Wikipedia: Pedagogy
All you ever wanted to know about JT…. and more! - Threat Level Orange Julius
Tips for a healthy home from Judith Lewis.
You do the best you can, you fight that technology in all kinds of ways, but I don’t know anybody who’s made a record that sounds decent in the past twenty years, really. You listen to these modern records, they’re atrocious, they have sound all over them. There’s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like – static. Even these songs probably sounded ten times better in the studio when we recorded ‘em. CDs are small. There’s no stature to it. I remember when that Napster guy came up across, it was like, ‘Everybody’s gettin’ music for free.’ I was like, ‘Well, why not? It ain’t worth nothing anyway.’ “. . . Rolling Stone: The Genius of Bob Dylan (excerpt)
Mutual Improvement promises to be “even more ambitious and wild” than its previous incarnation, Radical Mutual-Improvement.
When I’m deciding what links to post here, I’m essentially curating ideas, collecting them to “send” to you (and to myself, in a way). Jason hits the nail right on the head with this, echoing an early conception of weblog as modern wunderkammer, for which I regret I cannot find a source.
beatzo: How Alan Moore Changed My Life Part 1: Swamp Thing# 48 Part memoir, part “comics as literature”, this essay communicates both the genius of Alan Moore and the secret joys a teenage comic book fan was privy to in the 1980s.
Anderson Cooper 360 Blog ‘Missing’ Marine from 9/11 comes forward
The new Oliver Stone movie, “World Trade Center,” tells the story of two Port Authority police officers – Sgt. John McLoughlin and Officer Will Jimeno – who were found by two former U.S. Marines working as volunteers. But the moviemakers only knew the whereabouts of one of the Marines; the other had seemingly vanished.
Because the moviemakers (and most everyone else) didn’t know much about the “missing” Marine, the actor playing him is a white man. In real life, Sgt. Thomas is African-American.
“But now there won’t be any pickles,” she said. “That was weird, anyway. To have someone send you pickles.” Washington Post: Pluto, Soon to Orbit in a Less Important Circle?
And on the street the Hummers roll, driven by small, blond college girls, as if America had invaded itself. The Phoenix: The New New Age: The movement pulls away from the mainstream and gets apocalyptic.
