May 29, 2011

I. NEVER. Would.

The Doctor will buss a cap directly into yo' ass
posted by clarknova at 8:48 PM PST - 278 comments

Odlyzko on electronic publishing, 1996

"As recently as a year ago, there were many publishers, librarians, and scholars who thought that electronic publishing was just a passing fad." In 1996, the number theorist Andrew Odlyzko, a pioneer in the development of "experimental mathematics" via large-scale computation, wrote a article, prescient in many respects, about the effect the Internet would have on the economics of scholarly publication, and on commerce more generally.
posted by escabeche at 7:46 PM PST - 20 comments

Bloody Kids!

IS TROPICAL - THE GREEKS: Official music video (Vimeo, 3.25); live action combined with animation for real comic-book violence. NSFW owing to boys being shot, blown up, shot, electrocuted, shot, slashed and then shot some more.
posted by bwg at 6:12 PM PST - 45 comments

An alternative anthem

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, we're all tired, things have been hard here in the States, hard for years and years and years. Perhaps we could use a new (but not really) anthem to bring some spirit back.
posted by tomswift at 6:08 PM PST - 24 comments

RATM Killing Remix

Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Of - Previously On The Blue
posted by MechEng at 5:49 PM PST - 22 comments

Not worried at all anymore.

The kids are all right.
posted by chronkite at 4:25 PM PST - 60 comments

Sell everything, immediately.

Economic Collapse Explained in Three Minutes
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 4:14 PM PST - 25 comments

Carleton E. Watkins

Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) was an early western photographer, notable for his views of San Francisco and Yosemite. Watkins made his images with a custom built "Mammoth" 18x22" glass plate camera. [more inside]
posted by starman at 3:24 PM PST - 7 comments

"Because I mean, come on. It's the 21st century. Who doesn't know how to have sex?"

"When you're partners in an unconsummated marriage, there's a lot of anger. You find yourself saying things you would never say under normal circumstances. You see yourself becoming bitter and horrible to your husband. You tell him this is all his fault and that any normal man would be able to have penetrated you. You compare him to your ex-boyfriend and laugh at him." [more inside]
posted by -->NMN.80.418 at 2:29 PM PST - 142 comments

Hellfire and Damnation!

After over seven years, Stephen R. Donaldson, has stopped taking questions for his monumental and amazing Gradual Interview.
"After May 21, 2011, the Gradual Interview will no longer accept new questions or messages. I will continue to work my way through the questions which have already been accepted, but I can't do more. I'm too far behind on too many things, and the strain is affecting my concentration. Discontinuing the Gradual Interview is one of several things that I'm doing to simplify my life."
The Gradual Interview is a fully-searchable question and answer session with his readers that currently contains over 2600 exchanges on topics including minutiae about his novels, his writing process, and many other interesting subjects. [more inside]
posted by hippybear at 2:27 PM PST - 12 comments

More enthusiasm! More!

Your Life as Pornography.
posted by Memo at 12:23 PM PST - 68 comments

Our infernal devices

The most curious was on a chariot that carried the most singular music that can be imagined. It held a bear that played the organ; instead of pipes, there were sixteen cat heads each with its body confined; the tails were sticking out and were held to be played as the strings on a piano, if a key was pressed on the keyboard, the corresponding tail would be pulled hard, and it would produce each time a lamentable meow... the cats were arranged properly to produce a succession of notes from the octave… Sixteenth-century Europe, Jingle Cats, and the 2008 Housing Bubble: The Birth of Sampling [more inside]
posted by waterunderground at 11:53 AM PST - 20 comments

I've Got Every Right To Get Loud

Canada's own Godspeed You! Black Emperor recently reunited and played five nights in three NYC venues. Thanks to GY!BE's kindness toward set recording and NYCTaper you can listen to the two sets at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple.
posted by griphus at 9:51 AM PST - 51 comments

Parking Garage

The parking garage at 1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog and de Meuron.
posted by puny human at 9:32 AM PST - 14 comments

Learners are doers, McLuhan as teacher

Wikipedia And The Death Of The Expert - "McLuhan prefigured the Internet era in a number of surprising ways. As he said in a March 1969 Playboy interview: 'The computer thus holds out the promise of a technologically engendered state of universal understanding and unity, a state of absorption in the Logos that could knit mankind into one family and create a perpetuity of harmony and peace' ... Wikipedia, along with other crowd-sourced resources, is wreaking a certain amount of McLuhanesque havoc on conventional notions of 'authority', 'authorship', and even 'knowledge' ... Knowledge is growing more broadly and immediately participatory and collaborative by the moment."
posted by kliuless at 9:09 AM PST - 90 comments

Art Jackson's Atrocity

This is the story of one of the great lost experimental jazz/rock albums. But is it only a story?
posted by Trurl at 8:06 AM PST - 16 comments

Brutal Economics of Cable TV

The success of The Walking Dead, paradoxically, has left the network with an unusual dilemma. Like the executives of Mad Men’s Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, AMC is facing an existential question: How do I grow my business without sacrificing who I am? The Zombies at AMC’s Doorstep. TL;DR version: How AMC Explains the Brutal Economics of Cable Television
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 7:34 AM PST - 83 comments

I just made you read that confusing thing.

Eugene Mirman has unleashed his absurdist wrath upon an unsuspecting telecom (Time Warner Cable) for their lack of customer service, taking out a paid advertisement in the New York Press to do so. This is not the first time (referenced here previously, the mp3s can be found here) this high school commencement speaker has used his bizarre powers to fight the (strange but) good fight against a telecom.
posted by dubitable at 3:46 AM PST - 49 comments

"Now come and get your Ritalin."

An updated Pledge of Allegiance [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:29 AM PST - 74 comments

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