One of the dilemmas of the modern age: how to rebel against hipsters. What is the alternative? Rampant consumerism? Kerry Da Silva comments on the subject of hipster suckiness:
If you live in a metropolitan city like I do, you start to notice that there are as many hipsters infesting your region as there are cockroaches. [...]
I finally saw 24 Hour Party People last night, after weeks of anxious distractions. I lived with a a friend who experienced that musical period firsthand (from Chicago, not Manchester), and he piqued my interest. After seeing the movie, I’m even more hungry for information.
Given, 24HPP focuses on one first hand account of the period. [...]
Josh pointed out to me recently that Timecube progenitor Gene Ray has taken his theories to a new level of crazy, calling for the death of all educators not teaching Cubicism:
Tis Time to kill any educator who does
not teach Cubicism above cubelessness.
To save humanity from extinction, like
prior civilizations perished, youth must
redirect self teachers, or destroy [...]
I just received my copy of We Blog, of course thumbing through to make sure I didn’t sound like an idiot in my interview. The damage doesn’t seem to be irreparable.
I won’t be able to read it in depth (thanks to a pile of 100 other books and papers that is currently poised in front [...]
Carson (aka fool) just posted the kraftwerk vs. whitney track to memepool, giving lots of love to my post (thank you Carson).
So now I sit here in my office, listening to the sweet sound of hard drives churning. With over 1,000 downloads in the last day, I’ve pushed over 4 gigs of pure minimal German [...]
Now in progress: the Enron liquidation auction. It appears that the online auction technology provider, Dovebid, is having some major difficulties keeping up with the demand. Their website is crippled, and live webcast unattainable.
Ooooh I wish I was in Houston right now. This would be the perfect opportunity to pick up a few plasmas for [...]
Somewhere deep in the provincial regional fairs of America, food technicians have come up with a response to the ever-popular Scottish late-night treat, the deep-fried Mars bar. Using only stock USA-made products, this new invention may be the end-all in end-all diets: the DEEP FRIED TWINKIE.
In what may be the biggest setback for the war [...]
OMG! OMG! OMG!
What happens when you mix two parts computer-futurism, one part german minimalism, and two parts dated 80’s pop?
AAAAH!
Whitney Houston vs. Kraftwerk: I wanna dance with some numbers…
After years of dissatisfaction with paying above-market prices for used media in auctions (primarily books and vinyl in my case), I’ve discovered that a couple of the used retail networks are growing up. Both GEMM (used music/books) and Abebooks (antiquarian booksellers) are quickly establishing themselves as standards in my consumer repertoire.
These sites, along with others [...]
Jason curiously observes Lance Fortnow’s Computational Complexity Web Log (admiring, well, it’s complexity). I had to do a triple-take upon reading this, since Lance was one of my first computer science professors at the University of Chicago.
It’s been many years since I have heard the phrase “Computably Enumerable Language,” and let me tell you, it [...]