December 2011
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Friedrich Kittler's computer wars →
deathbyscreens:
When Friedrich Kittler, the German philosopher of media and technology, died in October this year, it wasn’t a big international story – in fact, the Guardian published the only obituary in the Anglophone press.
In Germany Kittler’s death made bigger waves: for weeks, newspapers published memorials and testimonials. The philosopher had generations of disciples and accolytes who...
Pledge Drive - Christmas Rhapsody
November 2011
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September 2011
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clientsfromhell:
I was looking up instructions for this client on how to use Powerpoint. When I typed in ‘How to’ into his search bar, the drop box came up with ‘How to forge a university degree’ and ‘How to make a university degree from template’. He was a financial advisor! Yikes.
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“If there were a late-night comedy show completely run by comedy writers, without...”
– Conan writer Todd Levin on how jokes die, for GOOD Magazine “Just Like That but Funny”
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Pretty much.
(via slackmistress)
He should have said “the proper velocity to FORCIBLY SODOMIZE their indifference.” Way funnier.
Watchbrettgelman:
Jon Daly strikes again with a brillz vid!
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August 2011
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B-side to “Here Comes the Judge” by...
Elegia Memnosyne: Wilderness →
myelegia:
A wilderness has grown up around us And everywhere it has become difficult to see our old paths are obscured and one by one we find ourselves lost separated from the pack like wounded animals huddling in gullys climbing rocks and braying out in desperation. Our occupations and constructions have…
July 2011
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“Stuff to Blow your Mind” tackles...
WatchSkinny Puppy - Washington DC 1986
A Handy Guide for Beggars, Especially Those of the... →
“Being sundry explorations, made while afoot and penniless in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. These adventures convey and illustrate the rules of beggary for poets and some others.”
Vachel Lindsay
“There’s no real life for an artist in America — only a living death.…If he is a...”
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Henry Miller - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
– Plato (via lilysofthefield)
erm—-Actually this is a 19th century “remix/mashup” of 2 different quotes by Plato and Aristotle by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Nature. Interesting Quote…but is it Poetry or History?
Plato’s quote is “Action comes less near to vital...
WatchA collection of commercials recorded during tv court shows. Who are we? Now that’s us. And I don’t have to stab my fingertips anymore.
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WatchIndie Covers of The Smiths
…totally sold on 8tracks…
…although DCFC’s lyrical blunder in This Charming Man is just a mess.