July 2008
Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization →
Ad Busters: Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization. “The hipster represents the end of Western civilization — a culture so detached and disconnected that it has stopped giving birth to…
OMNOMNOMopoly →
Sysco : whether it’s Wendy’s, Applebee’s, the local diner, a fancy restaurant, the cafeteria, or Guantanamo Bay, it’s what you eat. Serving over 400,000 businesses, the “Wal-Mart of Food…
http://www.last.fm/music/Deerhunter
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Books
http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Dice
http://www.last.fm/music/Animal+Collective
http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Moth+Super+Rainbow
Which Woman Has The Perfect Body? →
CULTURE BUZZ – A survey in Fabulous magazine reveals some surprises about how we idealize the female form (NSFW). Though there’s no way to tell if their survey was accurate, the magazine…
Bowser's Minions →
those College Humor guys are on a roll
Heavy Rain →
Totally weird and cool: trailer to the game Heavy Rain. In an interview, the designer compares the narrative structure of gaming to porn: traditional narrative is used to initiate play. [via]
Colour Design in 101 Dalmations →
Over on his blog, Oswald Iten is undertaking a frame-by-frame analysis of Walt Peregoy’s use of colour in Disney’s 101 Dalmations (DVD Link).
The posts are extremely detailed and…
Nancy Grace: FAIL →
TV BUZZ – The CNN sqwawkbox gets owned on her own podcast…by her own staff! I know what you’re thinking: Nancy Grace has a podcast? Watch the Video »
The Coffin Kart, For Your Budding Little... →
Got some extra riding lawnmower parts, a surplus child-sized coffin and some free time? Want to solidify your offspring’s place at the weird kids’ table and have a good laugh in the process?…
Baked Shrimp with Tomatoes and Feta →
is doing his thing at the new job.
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Great Batman panels →
BB pal Vann Hall suggests these two unrelated possibilities as the greatest Batman panels of all time. I like these, but I’m partial to “Batman does BDSM.” Click the…
It's 1975 And This Man Is About To Show You The... →
selections from a vintage IBM sales presentation; I want a t-shirt of several of these slides [via]
Innocent People Should Never Talk to the Police →
funny, even the cop agrees with this one
JollyMetaFilter →
In the years after leaving MST, Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater, and his “smarter brother” Jim Hodgson, worked on a new movie-repurposing concept for USA Networks. The introduction for the…
On the absurdity of "maximizing shareholder value" →
Over on Crooked Timber, Daniel Davies has uncorked a hell of a rant on the fatuous absurdity of the old saw that “corporate officers have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value.” He starts…
Joe Nocera Gets a Call From Steve Jobs →
Joe Nocera, in a column about his investigation into the state of Steve Jobs’s health: On Thursday afternoon, several hours after I’d gotten my final “Steve’s health is a private matter” — and…
How does insight work? →
Jonah Lerher, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, has a piece in the New Yorker this week (not online1) about how the process of insight works in the brain. The main takeaway is that insight…
Art to last 10,000 years →
In order to create art for the 10,000-year Clock chamber, Edward Burtynsky has been investigating how to make photographic prints that last a long time. Burtynsky went on a quest for a technical…
[from joshua] ARSS - Analysis & Resynthesis... →
analyses a sound file into a spectrogram and is able to synthesise this spectrogram, or any other user-created image, back into a sound Bookmark this on Delicious - Saved by joshua…
Coal. →
Coal. Cheap, Abundant, Clean.
http://www.last.fm/music/Deerhunter
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Books
http://www.last.fm/music/Panda+Bear
http://www.last.fm/music/Holy+Fuck
http://www.last.fm/music/The+Octopus+Project
Fate of the Book →
Attention Conservation Notice: This is a long stream in an unordered distributed debate. It may not make much sense unless you’ve read the discussion that is taking place on various websites…
Band features two keyboard-playing chickens →
In the late 1990s, Jeff Simmermon formed a band with two chickens as members. This is his story.
The keyboard players in my band were spacier than Sun Ra, more abstract than John Coltrane…
Buffet Lines →
Around the world with Dorothy Gambrell →
I mentioned passenger travel on cargo ships the other day. Dorothy Gambrell and her companion went on an around-the-world trip a couple of years ago, traveling mostly by boat and train. To get…
http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Moth+Super+Rainbow
http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Moth+Super+Rainbow
http://www.last.fm/music/Black+Moth+Super+Rainbow