Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 5:20 pm by Steve
Creepy but pretty interesting, too. Via the ISO50 blog.
Anti-US Propaganda from Dear Leader
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 5:20 pm by Steve
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 5:20 pm by Steve
Bostonians: Go See dj/rupture!
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Steve
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 12:09 pm by Steve
Monday night February 8 at Beat Research (at the Enormous Room in Central Square), dj’s Flack and Wayne’n'Wax are hosting dj/rupture. I’ve mentioned rupture on the blog here before. He was one of the founders of the Toneburst collective, with whom Noise Laboratories had the pleasure of collaborating back when we were all so much younger…
“I’m Not Fearing Any Man!”
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 11:59 am by Steve
Posted on February 5th, 2010 at 11:59 am by Steve
Via dj/rupture comes Auto-Tune the News’ songification of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech in Memphis, the night before he was killed:
Gaze In The Military
Posted on February 4th, 2010 at 1:07 pm by Steve
Posted on February 4th, 2010 at 1:07 pm by Steve
“I mean, rather than campaigning for the right to serve in the military, I am going to organize a gang of faggots to extend the right to be ineligible for military service to all of humanity.” So sayeth IOZ, and I heartily concur!
Everything is OK!
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 4:29 pm by dr.hoo
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 4:29 pm by dr.hoo
No really, it IS. As long as you have a megaphone and plenty of hugs.
Power, Love, Justice
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 3:35 pm by Steve
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 3:35 pm by Steve
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
– Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Where Do We Go From Here?”
On the Origin of Specious
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am by Steve
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 am by Steve
Okay, so maybe referring to The Obama as specious is a bit of a stretch, but, dammit, I wanted that pun! And, really, it was just a setup for this awesome graphic by artist Mike Rosulek:
The Idea Is Like Grass
Posted on January 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pm by Steve
Posted on January 29th, 2010 at 6:59 pm by Steve
“The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.”
“Brockman, to the Ants Submits”
Posted on January 29th, 2010 at 11:16 am by Steve
Posted on January 29th, 2010 at 11:16 am by Steve
What did people daydream about before popular culture? History? Religion? Geneology? Was I suffering from some sort of condition exacerbated by the internet culture of link and remix?
Author James Lileks explores how his own brain works. He travels associatively from Camptown Races to Foghorn Leghorn to Lou Grant to Singin’ in the Rain to Twitter to the Simpsons, and concludes, “I, for one, welcome the day when people no longer say ‘I, for one’.”
Read it and laugh and smile and shake your head.