Jun. 17, 2013 at 5:12pm with 3 notes
  

Daft Punk - Motherboard

“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.” - Edgar Watson Howe

Jun. 12, 2013 at 9:17am with 2 notes
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Bruce [Sterling] describing it as a movement locks it into an existing idea of historical processes, but there’s no such thing as avant-gardes anymore. That’s such a ridiculous idea. That’s an art-historical construct that just doesn’t apply anymore. But it leads to that idea of there being avant-garde figures that are ahead of everything else. But there’s not. It’s just me, looking at this stuff, and going, ‘Have you seen this? Have you actually seen it? Have you really paid attention and thought this stuff through? Because I’m trying to, and it’s amazing!’
— James Bridle in VF piece on The New Aesthetic
9:00am with 576 notes
Reblogged from daveshumka

daveshumka:

I made this supercut of David Letterman asking drummers if their drums are rented. That guy is the greatest.

(Original post from CBC Music)

May. 23, 2013 at 9:31pm with 5 notes
Interview with an author

Heidi Singer of the NYPL: You seem to have a bit of a tortured relationship with technology, having called the Internet “a f__ing curse.” Can you elaborate?

Wells Tower: Oh, I guess I feel like it’s a f__ing curse because if you accidentally emit some doltish blowhardism like “The Internet’s a f__ing curse,” it might wind up on someone’s blog and get quoted back to you in an interview. My main gripe with the web is that it’s toxic to the kind of concentration fiction writing requires. It’s difficult to write good sentences and simultaneously buy shoes.

May. 15, 2013 at 4:39pm with 10 notes
GPOYW New Wordpress Tee Edition. 

GPOYW New Wordpress Tee Edition. 

Apr. 19, 2013 at 10:31am with 4 notes

I’m normally pretty hooked-in and connected to national news & current events but our whole damn town flooded out badly yesterday and I ended up drinking last night and unplugged from most everything.

I woke up this morning with a severe hangover and further didn’t pay any attention to national news.

Just getting up to speed on the events in Boston with the suspects and manhunt - the total lock-down of the area, and all this insanity, and wow, just floored. Thinking of all my friends out that way and how crazy things must feel right now. Keep your heads up, gang. 

Apr. 16, 2013 at 4:46pm with 12 notes

“My Favorite Soul Train Line Dance”

 

If this doesn’t bring a smile to your face, I don’t even know what to do for you.

Apr. 15, 2013 at 1:25pm with 3 notes
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What would happen if we stopped acting as if the primordial form of work is laboring at a production line, or wheat field, or iron foundry, or even in an office cubicle, and instead started from a mother, a teacher, or a caregiver? We might be forced to conclude that the real business of human life is not contributing toward something called “the economy” (a concept that didn’t even exist three hundred years ago), but the fact that we are all, and have always been, projects of mutual creation.
— A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming Collapse. 
Apr. 13, 2013 at 12:03pm with 2 notes
androidfacebookchatheadspermissionsmessenger
B-b-b-but it makes my friends into cool little “chat heads”

  • SEND SMS MESSAGES
    Allows the app to send SMS messages. This may result in unexpected charges. Malicious apps may cost you money by sending messages without your confirmation.
    DIRECTLY CALL PHONE NUMBERS
    Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Note that this doesn’t allow the app to call emergency numbers. Malicious apps may cost you money by making calls without your confirmation.
  • CHANGE YOUR AUDIO SETTINGS
    Allows the app to modify global audio settings such as volume and which speaker is used for output.
    TAKE PICTURES AND VIDEOS
    Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.
  • PRECISE LOCATION (GPS AND NETWORK-BASED)
    Allows the app to get your precise location using the Global Positioning System (GPS) or network location sources such as cell towers and Wi-Fi. These location services must be turned on and available to your device for the app to use them. Apps may use this to determine where you are, and may consume additional battery power.
    APPROXIMATE LOCATION (NETWORK-BASED)
    Allows the app to get your approximate location. This location is derived by location services using network location sources such as cell towers and Wi-Fi. These location services must be turned on and available to your device for the app to use them. Apps may use this to determine approximately where you are.
  • RECEIVE TEXT MESSAGES (SMS)
    Allows the app to receive and process SMS messages. This means the app could monitor or delete messages sent to your device without showing them to you.
    RECEIVE TEXT MESSAGES (MMS)
    Allows the app to receive and process MMS messages. This means the app could monitor or delete messages sent to your device without showing them to you.
    READ YOUR TEXT MESSAGES (SMS OR MMS)
    Allows the app to read SMS messages stored on your tablet or SIM card. This allows the app to read all SMS messages, regardless of content or confidentiality. Allows the app to read SMS messages stored on your phone or SIM card. This allows the app to read all SMS messages, regardless of content or confidentiality.
    EDIT YOUR TEXT MESSAGES (SMS OR MMS)
    Allows the app to write to SMS messages stored on your tablet or SIM card. Malicious apps may delete your messages. Allows the app to write to SMS messages stored on your phone or SIM card. Malicious apps may delete your messages.
  • FULL NETWORK ACCESS
    Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
  • READ YOUR CONTACTS
    Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your tablet, including the frequency with which you’ve called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge. Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you’ve called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals. This permission allows apps to save your contact data, and malicious apps may share contact data without your knowledge.
  • READ PHONE STATUS AND IDENTITY
    Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.
  • MODIFY OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF YOUR USB STORAGE MODIFY OR DELETE THE CONTENTS OF YOUR SD CARD
    Allows the app to write to the USB storage. Allows the app to write to the SD card.
  • PREVENT TABLET FROM SLEEPING PREVENT PHONE FROM SLEEPING
    Allows the app to prevent the tablet from going to sleep. Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    CHANGE NETWORK CONNECTIVITY
    Allows the app to change the state of network connectivity.
    DRAW OVER OTHER APPS
    Allows the app to draw on top of other applications or parts of the user interface. They may interfere with your use of the interface in any application, or change what you think you are seeing in other applications.

Mar. 31, 2013 at 8:40am with 7 notes

Of the graduation speech genre, this is definitely one of the best ever. But it’s better than a mere graduation speech. It’s a speech about reconciling adult living with a liberal arts education, and just making sense of things in general. Plus, he had the whole Jesus-vibe going with the hair and beard, but I digress.

This Is Water - David Foster Wallace

(Happy Easter)