worship the glitch

Want two free tix to Ani DiFranco's 8pm show tonight @ Town Hall (NYC)?

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:13:29 -0500

If you answer yes before 7PM and give me your email address, I’ll send them to you. Unfortunately, I’m unable to attend.

“You never know when you’re going to need a piece of...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:20:00 -0500

“You never know when you’re going to need a piece of string, fast!” (via Quick String™ Dispenser - Lehmans.com)

I suppose that’s true. You really don’t.

"There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was..."

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:18:09 -0500

“There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”

- Ezekiel 23:20 (New International Version)

Christianity is weird.

(via topherchris)

Love the awesome tomato guy art in the restroom at burp castle.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:32:25 -0500

Love the awesome tomato guy art in the restroom at burp castle.

Tumor Update

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:11:23 -0500

thefuzzydave:

Went to the ENT today for a followup on the CAT scan and a rundown on how we’re gonna treat the tumor in my ear canal.

The good news is that the tumor is non-invasive. It has not bored its way into my skull. My beautiful brain is hunky-dory.

Apparently my doctor found the tumor in a very early stage. After several weeks of ear drops, it was softened enough for her to rip it all out. No anesthetic, so it was painful as balls.

The bad news is that the tumor will grow back — and keep growing back for some time. Which means I’ll be making regular trips to the ENT to have sharp objects thrust into my ear. Yippee.

Ouch! Glad they got that sucker FD!

The Bill Gates Wealth Index

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:04:00 -0500

The Bill Gates Wealth Index:

mikehudack:

adamiss:

One way to examine this sort of wealth is to compare it to yours. Consider an average American of modest wealth. Perhaps she has a net worth of $70,000. Mr. Gates’ worth is 800,000 times larger. Which means that if something costs $100,000 to her, to Bill it’s as though it costs 12 cents. You can work out the right multiplier for your own net worth.

So for example, you might think a new Lambourghini Diablo would cost $250,000, but in Bill Gates dollars that’s 31 cents.

A nice home in a rich town like Palo Alto, California? Two dollars. That nice mansion he’s building? A more reasonable $63 to him.

You might spend $50 on tickets, food and parking to take your date to see an NHL hockey game. Bill, on the other hand could buy the team for 50 Bill-bills.

You might buy a plane ticket on a Boeing 747 for $1200 at full-fare coach. In Bill-bills, Mr. Gates could buy six 747s (Not tickets, the planes themselves). Two for him, two for Melinda and two for young Jennifer Katherine.

(via my colleague Tom)

Using this math one can come to the conclusion that there’s no way for Gates to effectively participate in our capitalist system (keeping the money moving around). He simply has too much cash. That’s a serious kink in the old trickle down theory. Of course, Gates partly found a way around this problem with the Gates foundation. Even then, I suspect that he still has more $$ than he can effectively spend.

BTW, I’m not criticizing Gates. I think the work his foundation does is unparalleled. But money in motion needs to stay in motion. When it accumulates at this level in the pockets of a select few, it can stop moving altogether.

"If Microsoft felt it had to bow to Chinese censorship within China’s borders, based on the IP..."

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:00 -0500

“If Microsoft felt it had to bow to Chinese censorship within China’s borders, based on the IP address, that might be defensible. But when Microsoft skews its worldwide searches to make Hu Jintao feel better, that’s a disgrace.”

- Boycott Microsoft Bing - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog - NYTimes.com

Goodie Bag | 2012 and The Conspiracy Conspiracy It’s the...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:38 -0500

Goodie Bag | 2012 and The Conspiracy Conspiracy

It’s the end of the world (again).

handstamp: tuneage: Beach House - “Norway” The way it starts -...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:38:10 -0500

handstamp:

tuneage:

Beach House - “Norway”

The way it starts - mechanical drum machine hits and organ blast - makes you think that it is just another track off of their self-titled debut. “Get out of 2006, Beach Hou…” But before you finish that thought, the track has exploded. Compared to their somnambulatory jams of years past, this track is Babe Ruth calling his shot in the bottom of the ninth. Phrases like “hazy and ambling,” which once seemed so appropriate for their past work have no place alongside Victoria Legrand’s pant-and-yell chorus routine. The woozy guitars are still firmly in place, and the organ is still the backbone of the track, but the drums have sprung to life and the contrast between the verses, which feel like stretched taffy, and the lush, powerful chorus provide a dynamic which Beach House has never achieved before. This is the sound of a band stepping up its game.

asonnenberg: I am repeatedly impressed by the things Harvey is...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:58:01 -0500

asonnenberg:

I am repeatedly impressed by the things Harvey is doing over at Monkeywhale.

Harvey’s Kitchen: Thayer Sarrano, Jump in the water

Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:54:13 -0500

Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7:

evangotlib:

biteofpythias:

We’re the NSA. And windows 7 was our idea.

Tumblrs tend to treat design as an afterthought

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:12:00 -0500

Nearly every Tumblr blog is a clone with an unaltered theme that looks 100% identical to thousands of other blogs. It’s really odd when you think about it, considering how many Tumblr posts are about art/fonts/design/etc. This sort of thing makes sense on platforms like Livejournal, where all designs are notably vanilla to begin with. It’s baffling to see it on Tumblr, where themes are considerably more sophisticated. I’m constantly reading one friend’s Tumblr under the false assumption that I’m reading another’s. It’s a daily occurrence.

My blog might not be the prettiest thing in the world, but it’s mine. And that’s important to me. I’m surprised that few others seem to feel the same way.

Stewart Takes Down GOP Fearmongers John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Louie...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:42:00 -0500

Stewart Takes Down GOP Fearmongers John Shadegg (R-AZ) and Louie Gohmert (R-TX) | TPM LiveWire

Starts @ 3:30

kateoplis: Beck’s insane ten-and-a-half minute tribute to...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:22:32 -0500

kateoplis:

Beck’s insane ten-and-a-half minute tribute to experimental composer Harry Partch, veers from hip-hop to country to psych to R&B, covering Beck’s entire career. According to Beck’s site, the tune is “a tribute to the composer and his desire to make the body and music unified into what he termed ‘Corporeality.’ The song employs Partch’s 43 tone scale, which expands conventional tonality into a broader variation of frequencies and resonances.” Listen here.

wreckandsalvage: tanya77: Out for a run When I see this in...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:51:03 -0500

wreckandsalvage:

tanya77:

Out for a run

When I see this in the slope the kids are literally tied together with colorful rope. I like that attitude, one for all and all for one. If you get kidnapped or plucked off the street by a giant hawk, we’re all coming with you.

kateoplis: Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74 She met her partner...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:48:57 -0500

kateoplis:

Artist Jean-Claude dies at 74

She met her partner Christo in Paris in 1958. They have been collaborating for 51 years.

The family statement said Christo was deeply saddened by his wife’s death but was “committed to honor the promise they made to each other many years ago: that the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude would continue.” That includes completing their current installation, “Over The River”, a series of fabric panels to be suspended over the Arkansas River in Colorado, and “The Mastaba,” a stack of 410,000 oil barrels configured as a mastaba, or rectangle with outward-sloping sides, envisioned for the United Arab Emirates.

Like all their projects, these are intended to be temporary, a quality at the heart of the artistic enterprise. Whether executed in oil drum or brightly colored fabric, the art of her and her husband, Jeanne-Claude said, expressed “ the quality of love and tenderness that we human beings have for what does not last.”

NYT

"You have a central question that asks a yes or no answer — this is the entire idea of your..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:48:15 -0500

“You have a central question that asks a yes or no answer — this is the entire idea of your show/screenplay/whatever. Will the boy be able to come back from the past (Back to the Future)? Will Will Smith & Co. stop the alien invasion (Independence Day)? Will sport Asian people successfully drift (Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift)?”

- Making a Web Series: The Story, The Outline, The Script

Yuri Baranovsky is funny guy and I couldn’t resist quoting this passage. Despite making with the jokes, this is a very useful post that should be read by anyone making a web series. So useful that I’m going to link to it on blip.tv’s support page.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is now available for...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:29:00 -0500

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is now available for Beatles Rock Band. Abbey Road is apparently available as well. I had no idea.

Brian Williams : Jon Stewart "has gone from optional to indispensible."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:02:49 -0500

Brian Williams : Jon Stewart "has gone from optional to indispensible.":

soupsoup:

The old arc of a news story went like this: News happens. Media cover news. Audience reacts, then turns in for the night. For the past several years, however, there’s been another step added to the end of the process: being held to account for our faults by a comedy show with a sharp eye and a sharp tongue. How did we live without it?

bikerfish: (via corwood) Don’t know who did this but I love...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:02:35 -0500

bikerfish:

(via corwood)

Don’t know who did this but I love it!