I’m not really much of a gamer. I was when I was a kid, back in the Stone Age, and I’ve had my periods of obsessive game play as an adult, though it was more linked to specific games (Half-Life, American McGee’s Alice, GTA: Vice City, Tomb Raider) than to a desire to game in […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Cheers, Saturday Night
Cheers, Saturday Night Originally uploaded by Joshua Ellis The hat is not fashion. The hat is what you wear when you’re walking around for extended periods in 105º weather.
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Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Nixa: The Kirk/Spock of Our Generation Nick Cave / Blixa Bargeld slash fiction. Jesus hairy Christ. (tags: music culture the-horror-the-horror)
On the GMF and the Singularity
Here’s something I wrote on Whitechapel, Warren Ellis’s message board, in the context of a discussion about the Singularity that I started. I thought it would be worth posting here, as it explains some of my earlier thoughts. My whole point with the Grim Meathook Future thing was that, despite what us nerds would like […]
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More on the promotional culture » PopMatters | Blogs | Marginal Utility (tags: sociology article thoughtcloud)
Even More William Shatner Goodness
This made me grin today.
OMFG: Korg nanoKEY, nanoKONTROL, nanoPAD
Over at Create Digital Music, Peter’s got some early info on Korg’s new line of MIDI controllers for laptop musicians. The keys on the nanoKEY are even supposed to be velocity sensitive. This is literally what I’ve been dreaming of having for years — little controllers you can shove in your bag and use on […]
Flatpack Cardboard Worktable
A flatpack cardboard worktable, designed for repeated assembly/disassembly. Very cool idea.
links for 2008-06-12
PopMatters | 20 Questions | Thomas Dolby Great interview with Dolby, whom I adore. (tags: article music) From The Magazine : Radar Online : How some of the biggest names in comedy built their careers on pilfered punchlines Includes the whole Denis Leary / Bill Hicks thing, which was one of the most disillusioning things […]
Hipster Futurephone
I finally figured out how to get my futurephone to pick up my GMail via IMAP. So it’s “pull” email for me. Accordingly, I set the “new email” tone to be the little repeating piano motif from Brian Eno’s Music For Airports. And my ringtone got changed from “Ace Of Spades” by Motorhead to “Sister […]