October 2010
14 posts
I love the logic of CNN’s viewers: the Dems had 4 years to change course, and we’ve gone over the cliff. Let’s put the wheel back in the hands of the guys who started the car.
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Warren Ellis » On Going Non-Physical →
Warren Ellis is thinking. Normally this would cause the local forest creatures to shit themselves in fear:
If [FREAKANGELS] were a print periodical, 30-40K a pop for an indie book about weird kids in London would be kind of a big deal. Not least because forty thousand readers for a monthly comic about people building greenhouses and jabbering about the true shape of the mind would be, in this...
September 2010
13 posts
Twitter Bio Generator →
spytap:
brianjz:
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tomhenrich:
Agonizing over what to put in your Twitter bio? 140 characters in which to describe your endless intricacies and greatest feats to the world – that’s a tall order. Luckily for you there’s a service to do all the hard work for you. Introducing the Twitter Bio Generator from @joshjs. Maybe you’re a…
Twitter afficionado. Amateur tv nerd. Passionate...
Dear Coders:
please create a find and replace that understand that when I ask it to replace “i” with “I” I don’t mean In every freakIng word i put In the document.
Oh great. You mIssed one.
Feel like I’m living in some weird alternate universe where every url and screenname someone gives me- without asking mind you- turns out to be a dead end, 404 type situation.
“Gravity is your only true burden, the rest are inventions of esteem.”
– Paul Crik
"Fun" with Google Scribe
Inspired by Zadi and Steve Woolf, I gave Scribe a go.
I decided to start with the opening words of what is arguably the best known poem in the English language: Yeat’s The Second Coming.
From “Turning and turning” I got:
Turning and turning into another depression, Bernanke vote raises economic fears of struggling middle class families and small businesses in their own right...
“It is not a matter of exposing one’s unchanging identity, the true self...”
– James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
Online Content Vs. Online Distribution
What interests me most about the stirred up by Barrett Garese’s “2000 Words On ‘Derivative Bullshit,’ ‘WebTV,’ and ‘Online Content’” (and the response by David Nett “GOLD and the IndieTV movement”) is that it feels like an articulation of the moment online culture finds itself in.
On the one hand we have people pulling off bold...
