February 2009
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January 2009
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Jan 31st
“We’re not going to run Walt Disney World, Wal-Mart, and the interstate highway...”
– James Howard Kunstler, Redux by Robert Birnbaum - The Morning News
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“As opposed to the richness of a copresent situation, geographically dispersed...”
– Pasta&Vinegar » Blog Archive » Awareness, visibility and Twitter
Jan 30th
“He said that public health measures like cleaning up contaminated water and food...”
– Dirt is good for you
Jan 29th
WatchWatch
I did some weird dancing in a music video that Ninian made. “Sideways Glances and Coded Speech” by Fulton Lights from 9irondwarves on Vimeo.
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“You’re a brunette, 6’, long legs, 25-30, intelligent, articulate and...”
– Guide to dating: The classified ads of the London Review of Books | Life and style | The Guardian (via Kottke.org)
Jan 28th
Playing The Beatles Backwards: The Ultimate... →
Ranking and reviewing every Beatles song ever released. Revolution Number Nine comes in last at 185.
Jan 27th
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“If you’re not happy about the Olympics, you’re either lazy or...”
– Makeover for the East End of London - International Herald Tribune
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Science Museum Lates →
This sounds fun: “Banish the credit crunch blues with a Japanese themed, adults-only evening at the Science Museum in celebration of the stylish new exhibition Japan Car: Designs for the Crowded Globe. Enjoy Japanese pop DJs, kendo demonstrations, 2 for 1 entry to the exhibition and other Japanese activities, as well as shameless playtime in the famous interactive gallery Launchpad.”
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Skateboarding in Afghanistan Provides a Diversion... →
“It looked like an ordinary neighborhood playground: six children tumbling off their skateboards to the tune of laughter. But only hours before, just 20 yards away, the body of a suicide car bomber was sprawled beside a glistening pool of blood.” Related: “Skateboarding Saves Me Twice” by Grandaddy.
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On Archiving (PDF) →
“In Archive Fever, Derrida also refers to the archive in terms of two opposing drives: the ‘conservation drive’, which is the drive to store and preserve archival content, and the ‘death drive’, which contradicts the conservation drive in that there is also a desire to destroy, an aggression, a “forgetfulness which does not limit itself to repression…there is no archive fever without...
Jan 26th
Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit... →
The making of.
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Butt Hole Road →
Britain has good place names.
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