December 5, 2015
Analog synths and VHS, digital dreams, SNES
FrankJavCee knows what the kids like to listen to, and will teach you how to make songs in popular new genres, like chillwave and ocean grunge
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Fun use for paper products...
What if Fender made a Stratocaster... out of cardboard?
"I am not yet old enough to vote———"
Political candidates aren't technically allowed to coordinate with the Super PACs that support them. Which is why Ted Cruz quietly uploaded 16 hours of footage to an old, unused YouTube channel for his Super PACs to find. BuzzFeed found out, and Gawker decided to do him a favor and edit all their favorite, most awful moments from the footage into a single, glorious campaign advertisement: "One more hug." "I love you, Mom." "And hold for a second."
Dr. Love Lectures About Christmas
Stories Of Christmas Love: Leo Buscaglia, USC's "Dr Love" and 80s PBS inspirational speaker talks for about 45 minutes about the meaning of the Christmas season from a compassionate, optimistic, humanist perspective with a focus on love. [more inside]
Hello?
Adele's "Hello," by the movies. Edited by Matthijs Vlot.
Be excellent to each other.
Jonathan Zittrain gives a Ted Talk on the internet as a random act of kindness. But as we approach the holiday season, and holiday depression, netizens can bring kindness to real life. [more inside]
Talkin' old school.
You might not have guessed that the spiritual ancestors of talk box talkers Pete Drake and Roger Troutman are musicians from faraway Thừa Thiên-Huế Province in Vietnam.
Don't believe me? Just check it. [more inside]
Why exit interviews are important
“I received a call from the horrified IT Director (the IT Manager himself had been made redundant straight after me), to ask if I knew why they faced an ISDN bill for over £100,000.”
What the whale inspired was wonderment, a dilation of the ordinary
Whale Fall, an essay by Australian writer Rebecca Giggs. In a 2010 interview with Overland, she discusses the discipline of writing, the psychological and spiritual effects of climate change, and being labelled a "young writer": "I don’t believe in the label ‘young writer.’ All writers should zigzag, meander and fail throughout their career. All writers should embark on infinite tasks, abandon works half-way through, try to take on the wrong voice, start in an incorrect place and finish too far after the end." Her first book, After the Whales, "a work of creative non-fiction examining the place that whales hold in Australia's natural environment, our history, and our cultural imaginations", is forthcoming from Scribe.
Internet quizzes are to Metafilter as...
Tomorrow's forecast is the same, but purple.
How corporations profit from black teens' viral content
The originator of "on fleek" was a 16-year-old girl from South Chicago. "Cool hunting" by advertisers has long captured and resold content from black youth in urban communities. But the rise of social media have made the process significantly faster, and the capitalization on trends far richer. Yet the youth who create dance styles and new language are rarely compensated for their cultural work. And the shape of copyright law is partly to blame. [more inside]
They battle forces of darkness none of us can see.
"But at some point, my dad stepped into a phone booth and vowed to be more than the sum of his upbringing. He took on the monsters that followed him and declared war on the dysfunctional demons he carried. He chose to give his children the childhood he didn’t have."
A Love Letter to the Cycle Breakers. [TW: childhood abuse]
whatever happened to Cecil Rhodes?
Just look at the state of my lawn
...warm. Warmer. Disco!
Everyone remembers John Travolta's comeback role as the shlubby stoned hitman Vincent Vega in 1994's Pulp Fiction. In one of the more creative memes of tghe year, gifwizards over at /r/confusedtravolta have begun transplanting (you guessed it) a confused John Travolta into other milieu:
Oh, Click and I'll Come to You, My Lad
Montague Rhodes James was an antiquarian, cataloger, scholar (especially of apocryphal books of the Bible), as well as Vice Chancellor of King’s College Cambridge and Provost of Eton College (where he died in 1936). But he is best known for his ghost stories, excellent examples of the Victorian Christmas ghost story tradition. [more inside]
That 'etc...', it'll get you every time
Because of ongoing problems with racism, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has temporarily closed comments on all articles about indigenous peoples. [more inside]
“It is not right if people cannot use a library free from anxiety.”
Librarians in Japan upset after newspaper published names of books that novelist Haruki Murakami checked out as a teenager from his high school library. [Los Angeles Times] [more inside]
Famous woman
Julianne Moore acts for tips in Times Square SLYT NSFW swearing
On Human Gene Editing, seizing control of human inheritance
Last April, motivated by rumors of a Chinese paper published the next month that physically demonstrated the technical feasibility of editing human germline DNA with CRISPR by successfully modifying human embryos, a coalition of well regarded scientists assembled to address this fundamentally new ability and they called for an international summit. It was to be billed as a new Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA for a new age in order to lead a new global conversation on questions of whether and how to control human inheritance, which could only be dreamed of 40 years ago. This is a fundamental departure from the non-inheritable gene engineering with CRISPR covered on the blue recently. Thus, from December 1-3, the International Summit on Human Gene Editing, held as a collaborative effort between U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and The Royal Society, met to discuss the future of this technology and has come out with a clear consensus statement. [more inside]
There's a Map for that.
Redstone genius SethBling has teamed up with Verizon to bring cellular coverage into MineCraft. Video calling, from the outside world into Minecraft, is now a reality. [SLYT]
A flock of crows
A beast roams the city.
New Dorp, New York (SLYT) is an animated video from SBTRKT and Ezra Koenig.
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