grdn.cc

"The title of Forster’s story, remember is The Machine Stops; it’s about overreliance on..."

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:32:08 -0500

“

The title of Forster’s story, remember is The Machine Stops; it’s about overreliance on devices. But as in most dystopias, technology and the sleek sterile chill of modernity are stand-ins for the real culprit. Our anxiety is primordial — given voice in literature and art since whenever it was that people first gathered together. In caves maybe.

Once you’ve felt the comfort of society, you worry about losing it. So to remind yourself of how you’re connected, you gather things around. And you cling to them, not so you won’t lose them, or lose what makes you you, but so you won’t lose the connections they represent. The fear is of emptiness — but of emptiness inside us, not of empty rooms.

”

- Our Media, Ourselves: Are We Headed For A Matrix? : NPR

RJ’s acting debut is… abstract.

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:06:17 -0500

RJ’s acting debut is… abstract.

"The NYPD issued more summonses to cyclists than truck drivers last year: truckers got 14,962 moving..."

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:49:21 -0500

“The NYPD issued more summonses to cyclists than truck drivers last year: truckers got 14,962 moving violation summonses and 10,415 Criminal Court summonses, while cyclists got 13,743 moving violation summonses and a whopping 34,813 Criminal Court summonses”

- Here’s Why Drivers Get Away With Murder In NYC: Gothamist

Glad to see this shit is finally getting some attention.

Update on Views.fm Updates

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:48:00 -0500

We’ve been pushing out some new stuff over the past few weeks!

First of all ‘shares’ are now called ‘views.’ Why we didn’t start with this terminology, we’re not really sure.

To simplify the sharing experience, you no longer are required to login and authenticate private views. Instead, private views are simply assigned a random six-digit string that is appended to the view URL, and they do not appear on your profile.

The idea is that the view creation process will be much simpler and quicker.

Existing private shares have been updated to be private views, and instead of being associated with specific users/email addresses, they have an afore-mentioned six-digit string. Any received shares are still accessible in your Views account, and will become ‘saved views’ in the very near future.

These are some very fundamental changes to the service, and we’re getting closer to having a ‘dashboard for your files’ that we’ve been envisioning.

Beyond The Black Rainbow Official Trailer #1 2001: Enter the...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:01:29 -0500

Beyond The Black Rainbow Official Trailer #1

2001: Enter the Clockwork Void. Pretty psyched for this.

Exploring facebook for the first time in a while and I...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:21:22 -0500

Exploring facebook for the first time in a while and I don’t even know what’s going on.

Your Average Designer (by bayerberg) Yeah, this pretty much...

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:42:39 -0500

Your Average Designer (by bayerberg)

Yeah, this pretty much nails it.

Two out of the thirty

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:21:24 -0500

Two out of the thirty

Radio Eva Store

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:13:08 -0500

Radio Eva Store

Video

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:24:09 -0500

Hakuba47.

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:25:33 -0500

Hakuba47.

Kyoto

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 03:47:00 -0500

Kyoto

Impromptu jam session in Kanazawa last night with a japanese...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:21:00 -0500

Impromptu jam session in Kanazawa last night with a japanese guitarist and french pianist that are way better musicians than I ever will be, in the most wildly decorated rock bar I’ve ever been to. There are relatively few foreigners here in this ‘samurai’ town (which has Paul Smith, A.P.C., etc.) so being a musical white guy is an interesting novelty enough that my subpar musical skill qualifies me for invitations to play hotel gigs, which I guess is not a bad backup plan in the event my design/code career goes south.

"A lot of my songwriting in the Hold Steady has to do with this place in your life where it’s..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:32:11 -0500

“A lot of my songwriting in the Hold Steady has to do with this place in your life where it’s appropriate to go to parties and have a dumb job. And then you get a little older, and it’s not as appropriate. There are people who make that transition, and then there are people who get hung up right there. It’s that frustration: ‘This isn’t turning out how I thought it was going to. Why is it so hard for me to get to work? Why do I sleep so much? Why am I not excited to see my friends?’”

- Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn talks to us about his unflinching new solo album. (via pitchfork)

(via LG announces nearly borderless 55-inch OLED HDTV) Finally...

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:19:25 -0500

(via LG announces nearly borderless 55-inch OLED HDTV)

Finally it’s starting to look like the goddamn future.

Excited for NYE coketalk: This is my inbox.

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:06:29 -0500

Excited for NYE

coketalk:

This is my inbox.

Views.fm | Facebook

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:34:00 -0500

Views.fm | Facebook:

viewsfm:

We have a Facebook page now, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Give us your likes, now. All of them. Give us your goddamn likes!

"I do think Andersen’s central point is a good one, though, which is that popular culture is..."

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:27:00 -0500

“I do think Andersen’s central point is a good one, though, which is that popular culture is the way it is right now because we have our heads up pop culture history’s ass thanks largely to the Internet”

- Bike Snob NYC

BSNYC breaks down that Andersen Vanity Fair article on the self-interested state of popular culture

"Following decriminalization, Portugal has the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over..."

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 11:47:00 -0500

“Following decriminalization, Portugal has the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the EU: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%, Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana.”

- While I’m sure you’re all happily enjoying some ‘Christmas medicine’ this week, as I am, it is good to reflect on the fact that many people are regularly incarcerated needlessly for drug related crimes, and there is still, in fact, a ‘war on drugs’. Happy holidays.

http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-war-on-drugs

Twitter / @dhh: Who said VCs aren't evil? ...

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:22:24 -0500

Twitter / @dhh: Who said VCs aren't evil? ...