November 2008
30 posts
MOLDE →
Love this. It’s like an online spanish version of Cabinet / N + 1.
TouchOSC →
jstn:
“TouchOSC is an iPhone / iPod Touch application that lets you send and receive Open Sound Control messages over a Wi-Fi network using the UDP protocol.”
…and much cheaper than the Lemur.
Ok. Between this and Fring/Skype I can’t not have an iPodPhoneTouch.
Then I’ll just need PhotoshopTouch and I won’t even need the computer …
“Although Albert Camus died before baby boomers took charge of the world and...”
– paperpools: August 2008
From Helen Dewitt’s awesome blog.
Photography is for Jerkoffs →
aja:
Make sure you have a LOT OF FUCKING NATURAL LIGHT.
Make sure the natural light SOURCE is behind you
Make sure the flash on your camera is OFF. If you need a FLASH, it means you don’t have enough NATURAL LIGHT. (step 1)
Look through the viewfinder: Make sure that everything in your shot is symmetrical. If a tiny bit of it isn’t, like a bird or a queer walking down the street, that’s OK...
“Some have asked us to reveal the names of the banks that are borrowing, how much...”
– Bloomberg.com: Exclusive
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“In 2k19 society is an economy of personal brands. Corporate structures and...”
– Snarkmarket: SNARKMARKET ALERT: Snarkstruct 2019
Kasia channels Carles.
Glad to know that making banner ads and tracking web trends is preparing me for the future …
“The grand jury in Willacy County, in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S.-Mexico...”
– Texas grand jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales of crime | Reuters
What the fuck does ‘owning an interest in private prisons’ even mean?
OMG! Billy O'Relly Is Scared of SF →
Anyone know what that track was they were playing over the Castro bit? Sounded hot.
faketv:
Nice!
onebigholiday:
Duh. Via Alex.
Peep the link for O’Reilly’s journalistic smear of SF by interviewing homeless people while playing 60’s era cliche music over montages of human struggle. What a heart the man has! What! A! Heart!
99LOLDesigns →
So, this site is appalling to any serious designer. This is just a glossy finish for age-old and long-reviled practice of spec work.
But it brings to mind William Gibson’s vision of the crowd-sourced future where the protagonist of Idoru competes for information bounties, living in a shitty basement apartment while scouring the internet for valuable scandal information for corporate TV...
Going to bars in Buenos Aires is a little weird...
“Q: I run an online music site you’ve never heard of, and we believe your...”
– FAQ. the hotel cafe.
COWORK Central →
Work a lot in your living room and you get really excited about things like offices.
I think I’m getting old.
“The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our...”
– Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda | Media and Technology | AlterNet
Can’t wait to come home to a Transmetropolitan/Bladerunner dystopia.
This sounds like a Sting + New Order mashup.
...
One way video chat
Alexis
12:26 AM it’s so sad i cannot talk to you
12:26 AM die
12:26 AM like what?
12:26 AM you’re cutting out
12:26 AM yes of course
12:26 AM you fucking idiot
12:26 AM i feel impotent
12:27 AM well done you didnt say singanese
12:27 AM or some shit
12:27 AM i feel v. impotent
12:27 AM no i juust made that up
12:27 AM you said singaporean
12:27 AM which is correct
12:27...
Victory Mixes
¡Viva Obama!
Heirs to the glimmering world
A new day dawning
Yes we did
“Carrying a majority of the popular vote, Obama did especially well among women...”
– Nation Finally Shitty Enough To Make Social Progress | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source
