February 2012
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“If you can take yourself out of your first world techie social media smart-shoes...”
– Why we should care about libraries (via A Whole Lotta Nothing)
Was talking to K just now about how I’ve come to think of what I do (its relevance, etc.) as being rather similar to public works engineering.
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basskittens asked: Sabina - I saw your review of Nana Mizuki's "Synchrogazer" on The Singles Jukebox and you seem to be the most knowledgeable person on this type of music... I must have more! Just as hyper, insane, frantic, operatic, techno/trance/metal/symphonic. Batshit crazy. What would you recommend?
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In Chicago til Monday lunchtime
Ask box if you’re also in Chicago and would like to meet up!
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“The moe character is..." →
subdee:
herocountry:
sunwheel:
“The moe character is a product of the breakdown of the grand narrative and rise of simulacra (Azuma 2009), and its form is one of unbounded virtual possibility. Concretely, a moe character is what Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari describe as a ‘body without organs,’ or the ‘virtual’ dimension of the body that is a collection of potential traits, connections...
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HAUTE POP: How Pinterest can attribute sources... →
hautepop:
About 99% of Pinterest items are in violation of its own terms of service, says Josh Davis on LLSocial.
Their TOS:
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services. Accordingly, you represent…
Probably won’t use Pinterest until they fix this tbh (although they’re my...
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Paging back on Mark S's Freakytrigger posts →
“The Cantor of St Illod’s being far too enthusiastic a musician to concern himself with its Library, the Sub-Cantor, who idolized every detail of the work, was tidying up, after two hours’ writing and dictation in the Scriptorum. The copying-monks handed him in their sheets — it was a plain Four Gospels ordered by an Abbot in Evesham — and filed out to vespers. John Otho, better known as...
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“You don’t have to dabble for very long to begin to realize that the world of...”
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Details Magazine: Scents and Sensibility, Brian Eno, July 1992
Read the whole thing. It was impossible to carve out a quote. Just … goreadthewholething.
(via therichgirlsareweeping)
One of those where you’re scrolling down like, “Who is this person? Who would think like this?...
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Secrets of the Darth Vader boyfriend →
Hey, look! It is a relationship advice column that is genuinely insightful and helpful.
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The Singles Jukebox: Whitney Houston →
thesinglesjukebox:
Whitney Houston’s voice was built for the ages. Fittingly, her success spanned a long period in a time when pop changed at a rapid rate. When presented with a fizzy 80s dance track, she sang the hell out of it and lifted you as high as her upper register. When an enormous ballad was…
Some really great takes here.
I left my two paragraphs to twenty minutes before the...
“And as more middle-class families like the Gulbransons land in the safety net in...”
– “Even Critics of Safety Net Increasingly Depend On It.” (via marathonpacks)
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(via theremixbaby)
This is actually really illuminating.
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Top 3 best confused reactions to Tinker Tailor...
3) The person who was convinced from beginning to end that SMILEY WAS THE MOLE and this was a Boileau-Narcejac style exercise in watching the criminal carry off a successful cover-up (I forget the details but it was a super-impressive analysis for a TOTALLY WRONG theory they came up with on first watch XD;). 2) The person whose mom glanced at the screen for 30 seconds and was like, “It...
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UK denies Alan Turing posthumous pardon for... →
I don’t know why this is a Thing except for the purpose of sending me into a pointless righteous rage.
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Daydreaming of SXSW
mbmelodies:
rawkblog:
Anyone from Tumblronia going this year?
I am flying from Japan to go to my first SXSW. Terrified/excited!
Of course everyone from Tumblr is going the year I am not. XD; Have fun, eh.
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@chebec: oh, you should watch it, definitely! It’s a very good movie, certainly the best movie on the subject I’ve seen, and it’s not meant to leave you hating life or anything like that. XD; The ending is ultimately hopeful, in an ambiguous way (the ambiguity is the whole point). It just caused me to have a revelation re: how SOCIETY, SOCIETY IS THE PROBLEM I TELL YOU, which,...
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