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Archive for July, 2008

links for 2008-07-29

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July 29th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

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“Jerk It” by Thunderheist directed by That Go

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July 28th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

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Future phone

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plastic cup with string pay phone

It’s open source, and you can build it yourself.

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July 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

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July 28th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

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July 27th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

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July 25th, 2008 at 7:32 pm

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Why Essays Are So Damned Boring

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Gentle is how the Best American Essays 2006 guest editor, Lauren Slater, characterizes the essay she prefers. It must not, she tells us squarely, have “too much tooth.” Its author may be (and usually is) “narcissistic . . . but in a harmless way” (my italics). The essay’s “core,” she intones, should be “gentleness.” Given the choice to publish a provocative polemic or a navel-examining indulgence of private nostalgia, a haymaker from a literary heavyweight or an unbearably light appreciation of the author’s slippers, editors today will invariably choose the latter.

Full Story: Utne Reader

(via Tomorrow Museum)

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July 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

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July 24th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

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July 23rd, 2008 at 7:30 pm

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These kids are geniuses…

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(via Gutterbreakz)

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July 22nd, 2008 at 11:19 pm

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July 16th, 2008 at 7:30 pm

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Technoccult TV: Antero Alli pt. 2

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Technoccult TV: Antero Alli pt. 2

Antero Alli returns to talk about Christopher Hyatt’s legacy, and how he met Robert Anton Wilson.

Download from archive.org (high quality MPEG or iPod ready MP4)

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July 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

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July 14th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

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July 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

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July 9th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

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My experimental noise project

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psychetect nightmarelab

So Infictive County Records, home of Mystery X and Philip K. Nixon, have released a new mix of my decade old noise experiments.

Visit Infictive County Records: The Psychetect, “Nightmare Lab” for a free download.

I’ve also setup a Myspace, where I’ll be posting some new recordings over the next few months.

Myspace: the Psychetect

(Why yes, that is cover art by Danny Chaoflux)

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July 9th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

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