Making Music Out of Menace
Turning Guns into Guitars
Friday, March 31, 2006
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
More EOTW signs: The 'No Evil' company hires lobbyists. (NYTimes)
Pigs at the dinner table?
They'll be swallowing plenty of cringe-inducing robopolicy-speak like this: "We have a team of Republicans and Democrats who are helping them sort out these issues," Ms. Maddox said, an effort that recognizes that the "policy process is an extension of the market battlefield."
Ugh.
Pigs at the dinner table?
They'll be swallowing plenty of cringe-inducing robopolicy-speak like this: "We have a team of Republicans and Democrats who are helping them sort out these issues," Ms. Maddox said, an effort that recognizes that the "policy process is an extension of the market battlefield."
Ugh.
More Billions, Less Secure (mojones)
The newly proposed defense budget has money for everything except the one actual threat to the United States.
The newly proposed defense budget has money for everything except the one actual threat to the United States.
The Oil We Eat (Harpers) A great article on energy concentration and consumption from an agricultural perspective.
Corn, rice, and wheat are especially adapted to catastrophe. It is their niche. In the natural scheme of things, a catastrophe would create a blank slate, bare soil, that was good for them. Then, under normal circumstances, succession would quickly close that niche. The annuals would colonize. Their roots would stabilize the soil, accumulate organic matter, provide cover. Eventually the catastrophic niche would close. Farming is the process of ripping that niche open again and again. It is an annual artificial catastrophe, and it requires the equivalent of three or four tons of TNT per acre for a modern American farm. Iowa’s fields require the energy of 4,000 Nagasaki bombs every year.
(thx: metafilter)
Corn, rice, and wheat are especially adapted to catastrophe. It is their niche. In the natural scheme of things, a catastrophe would create a blank slate, bare soil, that was good for them. Then, under normal circumstances, succession would quickly close that niche. The annuals would colonize. Their roots would stabilize the soil, accumulate organic matter, provide cover. Eventually the catastrophic niche would close. Farming is the process of ripping that niche open again and again. It is an annual artificial catastrophe, and it requires the equivalent of three or four tons of TNT per acre for a modern American farm. Iowa’s fields require the energy of 4,000 Nagasaki bombs every year.
(thx: metafilter)
Monday, March 27, 2006
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Thursday, March 23, 2006
With Isaac Hayes quitting South Park over their cartoon portrayal of his Church of Scientology (he was just fine with all other religions getting satirized), the Jive wanted to know what other celebs might be hanging out in other strange churches. Here's the master list of Famous Adherents.
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Patriot Act: The Home Version
Go to GitMo. Do not pass Go.
"I've had people complain to me that when they play, nobody wins.
They say `We're all in Guantanamo and nobody has any civil liberties
left,'" he said. "I'm like `Yeah, that's the point.'"
Go to GitMo. Do not pass Go.
"I've had people complain to me that when they play, nobody wins.
They say `We're all in Guantanamo and nobody has any civil liberties
left,'" he said. "I'm like `Yeah, that's the point.'"
Oh BAbEEE YouUUu YouUU GoT WHAT I NEEeeEEeeEEEeeD!
Biz Markie has a doll. With nose picking finger action.
While I agree that it's not necessarily a terrible idea, calling it 'long awaited', as the ad does, is somewhat of a stretch. Not once in the past 15 years has someone answered 'What's going on with you?' with 'Waiting for that damn Biz Markie doll to come out, just like everybody else!'
Biz Markie has a doll. With nose picking finger action.
While I agree that it's not necessarily a terrible idea, calling it 'long awaited', as the ad does, is somewhat of a stretch. Not once in the past 15 years has someone answered 'What's going on with you?' with 'Waiting for that damn Biz Markie doll to come out, just like everybody else!'
Monday, March 20, 2006
$125 PC coming in June: the Chinese "Godson II" (from Hard to Do Any Worse, who has all kinds of interesting posts in the tech/society space)
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Eephing (npr)
The eccentric Southern tradition of "eephing" is best described as the hillbilly equivalent of the hip-hop human "beat box" vocal style -- a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago.
This piece is written by Jennifer Sharpe of Sharpeworld, which, if there's ever a history of blogging written should be praise-piled pretty early in the first chapter. It's been up'n'down, and there's 404s galore, but when the girl is on, nobody can touch her.
The eccentric Southern tradition of "eephing" is best described as the hillbilly equivalent of the hip-hop human "beat box" vocal style -- a kind of hiccupping, rhythmic wheeze that started in rural Tennessee more than 100 years ago.
This piece is written by Jennifer Sharpe of Sharpeworld, which, if there's ever a history of blogging written should be praise-piled pretty early in the first chapter. It's been up'n'down, and there's 404s galore, but when the girl is on, nobody can touch her.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
Kousin Kleetis's business is what the Harvard Business Journal would call vertically diversified.
Computer Networking: The Herald of Resource Sharing (google Video)
"A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the early internet. A very interesting look at the beginnings of what is now a huge part of most of our lives."
"A 1972 documentary on ARPAnet, the early internet. A very interesting look at the beginnings of what is now a huge part of most of our lives."
Monday, March 13, 2006
Some nice film footage of Pentangle performing "Light Flight" (.avi) which was the theme to the late-60's UK show 'Take Three Girls'. Great multicamera edited footage, perfect sound. (Thx . Jhonny Xero)
"Encyclopedia of my Death"
Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden (marcelvaneeden.nl) was born in 1965 in The Hague. His magnum opus is to make a drawing a day based on any source that precedes the year he was born. Using imagery culled from an array of historical material—illustrations from old books, topographical atlases, newspapers, photo archives, magazines like Life or Paris Match—van Eeden draws a world he never knew.
Contains interview and gallery