This video makes me smile, every single time I see it.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
OK Go went viral a couple of years ago with a fantastic video that featured them doing cool things on treadmills, and yet, incredibly, their record company has forbidden them from allowing this video [...]
This passage, from Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, just blew me away:
When he and Hooke and Wilkins had cut open live dogs during the Plague Years, Daniel had looked into their straining brown eyes and tried to fathom what was going in their minds. He’d decided that nothing was, that dogs had no conscious minds, [...]
Norway’s Consumer Council isn’t happy with the Amazon Kindle, a sleek, beautiful book reader whose inherent awesomeness is sullied by a toxic stew of heavy-handed digital rights management, big-brotherish privacy violations, and inscrutable, nonsensical restrictions. Some of the lowlights:
Amazon reserves the right to track a bunch of stuff about what you’re doing with the Kindle, [...]
This evening, my continuing obsession with Vin Diesel led me to watch Fast & Furious, the fourth installment in the Fast/Furious franchise, a series that takes our culture’s odd tendency to conflate loud gas-guzzling cars and barely clothed females as far it can possibly go. And then it takes it further. And then, somehow, it [...]
Check out this fantastic, and award-winning, short film by my friend and fellow Clarionite, Justin Whitney: Rumpled (click on film #18, “Rumpled”).
Based, no less, on a short story by another friend and fellow Clarionite, Keyan Bowes.
Good times.
dan2bit said this perfect thing about William Gibson today, while we were chatting about his latest:
Spook Country was good, in that elliptical Gibson way, where you know he’s done a ton of research in order to write the perfect throwaway paragraph about a barstool.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. In fact, I’ve spent [...]
Digital music distribution is the best thing to happen to music since wax records, but it has had one unfortunate consequence: the slow sundering of the notion of an album. Or the redefinition of that notion, at any rate. As far as iTunes, or any mp3 player, is concerned, an album is nothing more than [...]
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