December 2007
Many Worlds →
Stranger than fiction: parallel universes beguile science - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Is the universe — correction: “our” universe — no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds?
A staple of mind-bending science fiction, the possibility of multiple universes has long intrigued hard-nosed physicists, mathematicians and cosmologists too.
We may...
God, I’m Dumb →
My hands are shaking.
I went to Starbucks to do some programming tonight. On the way home, I stopped at the grocery store to pick up some milk and other refinements. Normal evening.
As I came up to the corner of the major cross streets near my house, I saw smoke coming off of a black truck in the middle of Mountain Vista, at the corner, next to the AM/PM gas station. As I got closer, I could see...
Zach Braff Quotes →
Zach Braff Quotes
“I pick the songs for my movies by typing a random word - say “bee” - and then by typing the word “pitchfork” along with it and then whatever pitchfork album review Google brings up I then look at the album, select the fourth song off of it, and then try to write a film scene around whatever song it is. It’s brought only gold so far!” - Zach Braff on selecting songs for films
God, I Need A Copy Of Ableton Live →
Really, really bad.
Mom was gonna get it for me for my last birthday, but it didn’t end up working out. I can’t afford $499 for a full copy (and I need a full copy, not the Lite version, which won’t do what I need it to do).
I need it for live Red State Soundsystem performances, which are otherwise just me and Thom playing along to a pre-recorded track. Which is stupid. I need to be able to...
50 Most Loathsome Of 2007 →
The BEAST: America’s Best Fiend
Lovely. Number 9 is “You”.
You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 for Spanish. You cling to every scrap of bullshit you can find to support your ludicrous belief system, and reject all empirical...
Douchebags Gone Wild →
Power to the Poachers
Dude, it’s, like, your fuckin’ duty to sneak onto one of the four ski resorts in America that don’t allow snowboarding and, like, fuckin’, like, snowboard there. ‘Cause the Man is stickin’ it to you by keeping you off four of the thousands of ski runs located on this continent.
As somebody who used to snowboard and would do it more often if: a) I didn’t live in the hottest...
Bhutto Assassinated in Attack on Rally - New York... →
Bhutto Assassinated in Attack on Rally - New York Times
Ms. Bhutto, who had twice been the country’s prime minister and was a leading contender to be the next prime minister after elections set for Jan. 8, was declared dead by doctors at a hospital in Rawalpindi at 6:16 p.m. local time. At least a dozen more people were killed in the attack, and some reports said there were at least 20 dead....
The Most Metal Christmas Gift EVAR. →
My dad got me this skeletal dagger, with skeleton-rising-up-from-Hell holder. For all tomorrow’s sacrifices. Heh. Totally rad.
I also got: an Arduino for learning to do hardware programming, an Ion drum machine, a USB Peltier cooler/heater for drinks, a cool portable 30W amp for my iPod, On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore Of The Kitchen, a GorillaPod poseable camera tripod, an ATC2K...
Merry Christmas →
And enjoy your last minute shopping:
(Image from Centennial Society)
I’m DJing New Year’s Eve @ Freakin’ Frog →
If you’re in Vegas and you’re not up for cruising the Strip and hunting an expensive club or bar to hang out on for New Year’s Eve, stop by the Freakin’ Frog on Maryland Parkway (between Tropicana and Harmon on the east side of the street, next to the as-yet-unopened barbecue joint with the highly fruity sign), where I’ll be, er, dropping science from 9pm - 1am. The Frog has a vast and ponderous...
links for 2007-12-22 →
Hellboy II: The Golden Army Trailer - Trailer Addict
Looks better than the first movie, and I really liked that one.
(tags: trailer movie badass)
Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and What’s Ludicrous About Being a Musician Today
(tags: music interview technology)
Trent Reznor on Year Zero, Planting Clues, and... →
Hellboy II: The Golden Army Trailer - Trailer... →
Looks better than the first movie, and I really liked that one.
Finally, Somebody Found A Use For Wyoming →
The Raw Story | Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US
The Lakota Indians, who gave the world legendary warriors Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, have withdrawn from treaties with the United States, leaders said Wednesday.
“We are no longer citizens of the United States of America and all those who live in the five-state area [Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and...
Download my Christmas Tom Waits cover at http://tinyurl.com/2y8n29
A Musical Christmas Card →
So I’m obviously not much of a Christmas guy. Nor do I like most Christmas music (the Phil Spector Christmas album notwithstanding). But there are two Christmas songs I adore: “Fairytale Of New York” by the Pogues, mentioned a couple of days ago, is one of them.
And so, since there’s no feasible way for me to record a cover of “Fairytale Of New York” (since it would require a girl who could sing...
Thought Of The Day →
In the future, the words “whore”, “skank”, “slut”, “slattern”, and possibly the word “retard” and the phrase “train wreck” will all be replaced in common usage by the word “spears“.
As in “I can’t believe you got drunk on Zima and went down on every single dude at the bar, you fuckin’ spears!”
Or “Fifteen people are dead in the worst spears in Amtrak history.”
Rolling My Eyes Towards England →
BBC radio station censors Pogues Christmas hit - Yahoo! News
LONDON (Reuters) - British public broadcaster BBC’s Radio 1 has cut out the word “faggot” from an old Christmas hit in a move the mother of the song’s late performer branded “ridiculous.”
In “Fairytale of New York,” released 20 years ago by Irish band the Pogues and singer Kirsty MacColl, she sings “You scumbag, you maggot/You cheap...
links for 2007-12-18 →
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell’s influence on his work | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
(tags: music)
YouTube - Riz Khan - Brian Eno - 01 Nov 07
Eno interviewed about his antiwar activism on Al-Jazeera. Nice piece.
(tags: music politics video thoughtcloud)
30 Years Ago Today, Elvis Costello Really Pissed... →
God, that long ago.
YouTube - Riz Khan - Brian Eno - 01 Nov 07 →
Eno interviewed about his antiwar activism on Al-Jazeera. Nice piece.
Brian Eno on Jon Hassell's influence on his work |... →
Leader Of The Band →
I’ve never been a Dan Fogelberg fan, generally speaking. However, my mother is the world’s biggest Dan Fogelberg fan. His music was the reason she became a singer-songwriter, and in fact she reviewed his album High Country Snows for Rolling Stone. I grew up listening to Fogelberg albums (that’s vinyl, folks).
So I was really not happy to tell her, a few minutes ago, that Fogelberg had died of...
My Cassandra Complex Turns Out To Be Quite Real,... →
Remember when the Iraq War started, a few years ago, and Turkey didn’t want to allow us to stage the invasion from our bases in Adana and Inçirlik? And when they suddenly changed their mind, I said — very explicitly — that I believed we’d made a deal with the Turkish government. Specifically, I figured we’d told them once we’d gotten control of Iraq and the heat had died down a bit, we’d allow...
links for 2007-12-16 →
My Perfect Christmas by James Caan
“Anyhow, there I was mindin’ my own business, shootin’ the breeze with a couple of buddies of mine from back home, when these five broads come in. ‘Who the fuck are they?’ I ask my pal, Sil. He turns to me and says ‘that’s the Spice Girls - th
(tags: humor)
Toy cars that have seen better times
Awesome burnt-out trashed toy cars.
(tags: design toys cool)
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Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody…
The Problem With Music →
Always worth a read.
Haineault.com | Blog > Top 10 tricks to piss... →
Werd.
Global Incident Map Displaying Terrorist Acts,... →
Nice.
Charlie's Diary: Security Pantomime →
“The solution to protecting the London Underground from terrorist suicide bombers can be summed up in one word: Daleks. One Dalek per tube platform, behind a door at the end. Fit them with cameras and remote controls and run them from Ken Livingstone’s of
Toy cars that have seen better times →
Awesome burnt-out trashed toy cars.
My Perfect Christmas by James Caan →
“Anyhow, there I was mindinâ my own business, shootinâ the breeze with a couple of buddies of mine from back home, when these five broads come in. âWho the fuck are they?â I ask my pal, Sil. He turns to me and says âthatâs the Spice Girls - th
CBC.ca Arts - Dances with Wolves actor-musician... →
CBC.ca Arts - Dances with Wolves actor-musician Floyd Red Crow Westerman dies
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, a U.S. aboriginal activist, actor and folksinger who appeared in the movie Dances with Wolves and performed with Willie Nelson and other musicians, has died. He was 71.
Westerman died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from leukemia, his son, Richard Tall...
New Red State Soundsystem Track — “Clive Owen” →
New Red State Soundsystem track, “Clive Owen” (direct link, MP3, 192kbps stereo).
This is an instrumental minimal techno track. It’s a lot of manipulated acoustic and electric Rhodes piano. It sounded like the soundtrack to a scene where Clive Owen is moodily contemplating the future from his future car, so that’s where the title comes from. No Clive Owens were harmed in the making of this...
Getting my minimal techno on
links for 2007-12-14 →
Students Flirt With Death In New Chest-Punch ‘Choking Game’ - Orlando News Story - WKMG Orlando
“Students at a middle school in Orange County have been experimenting with what is believed to be a new variation of the choking game, where teens hold their breath and get punched in the chest until they blackout.” Wow. The youth is retarded.
(tags: teenagers retarded darwin)
Pat...
Madonna and Leonard Cohen lined up for Rock And... →
Nice to see Cohen, but where the hell is Tom Waits?
Pat Condell →
Anti-religious stand-up comedy from a middle-aged English dude. Made me grin.
Students Flirt With Death In New Chest-Punch... →
“Students at a middle school in Orange County have been experimenting with what is believed to be a new variation of the choking game, where teens hold their breath and get punched in the chest until they blackout.” Wow. The youth is retarded.
@laurennmcc — Laurenn’s got a nametag! A little corporate nametag! :-)
RIP, You Pistol-Whippin’ Muthafucka →
Ike Turner, rock pioneer, ex-husband of Tina Turner, dead at 76 | TimesDaily.com | Times Daily | Florence, AL
Ike may have been a mean-ass sonofabitch, but — separate from his own personal life — he was a goddamn musical genius.
In his memory, here’s some wallpaper I made a while back:
And whether he’s in Heaven or Hell, I have no doubt that Ike’s keepin’ his pimp hand strong.
Istanbul: City Of Cats Now Available On Volette →
Some of you know this, but I’m formally announcing it as of now: I’m serving as the editor-in-chief of Volette, a new and badass travel blog created by my friend and colleague Joe Tangredi. Volette is going to be my kind of travel blog, which means it’s going to be weird and cool and will have, under no circumstances, anything written by earnest Australian backpacker types who haven’t worn pants...
It’s Been A Long Time Coming →
It was this day in 1964 that Sam Cooke was shot and killed in Los Angeles.
He’s most known to people for songs like “Cupid” and “Twistin’ The Night Away”, but I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to suggest that the most important song Cooke ever wrote or recorded was one of the last, “A Change Is Gonna Come”. It remains one of the keystone anthems of the American civil rights movement, and a...
links for 2007-12-11 →
IM IN UR GROUND, TESTIN UR FAITH
Cute.
(tags: atheism humor)
Being But Men
The text of Dylan Thomas’s lovely little poem.
(tags: poetry)
Being But Men →
The text of Dylan Thomas’s lovely little poem.
Poetry I Have Known And Loved →
(Sorry, the title made me grin.)
So I used to host a poetry open-mike. I like some poetry. Not all of it. Not even much of it. But here are some links to poems I really like. I realize none of this is particularly obscure or controversial, but hey, you might find something here you’re not familiar with.
“The Waste Land”,“Rhapsody On A Windy Night”,“Ash Wednesday”,“Preludes” — T.S. Eliot “For The...
IM IN UR GROUND, TESTIN UR FAITH →
Cute.
links for 2007-12-10 →
Danteworlds
Welcome to Danteworlds, an integrated multimedia journey–combining artistic images, textual commentary, and audio recordings–through the three realms of the afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) presented in Dante’s Divine Comedy. The site is structu
(tags: literature dante interesting)
CSS Gallery Web Design Gallery For Inspiration
Nice gallery of CSS frippery
(tags: css...
Am I The Only One Who’s Noticed This? →
Adam Sandler in the recent film Reign Over Me
Author Neil Gaiman
It’s more obvious in other shots, but I swear to God….
Time Breakdown Of Modern Web Design →
Werd.