The 4th Amendment doesn’t extend to 3rd party agreements. Privacy is a trick and diversion. Let’s talk about civil liberties before they’re gone, as well.
Privacy? Get over it.
Yes. This stuff is fascinating to me, especially watching reactionary people relatively clueless about rights and privacy, reacting to stuff like the NSA Verizon thing. Â Seriously? You have not needed (more…)
Sip from my firehose… been too busy to post one offs, so enjoy a random link roundup.
——–> Psychedelic experiences with the ultimate end of audiophilia http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/31/4379774/ecstasy-for-my-eardrums-tripping-through-the-psychedelia-million-dollar-hi-fi THAT (more…)
Touch…. Hold on. If love is the answer, you’re home.
The line “Hold on. If love is the answer, you’re home” is one of the most eloquent, beautiful, timely, and moving lines I have heard in a song in a decade, easily. Vulnerable, elegant, grace……
Broken Systems – watching the current rough seas of the 20th century from the shores of the 21st.
It’s not just NY. It’s cities, governments, and the systems firmly entrenched in the 20th century. It’s painful to watch – these broken systems haven’t been able to yoke themselves to the steam engine (more…)
Why Flavorwire’s Tom Hawking completely misses the point about Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories”
That’s *EXACTLY* why Giorgio is on there… there isn’t much to do but revisit the roots, at this point. Unless the author suggest more dubstep bass squishes under *literally* deafening treble scratches & sirens??
So… look to the past. Enjoy the past. Look to our history to protect the future. Huxley had some opinions about that: “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
So check some of this out. That’s the point of this review. Dig deep little archivists. It’s time to take a note from another album and move backwards towards your future discovery.
What in the hell is water?
This is water….. Short version: Life is what happens when you are annoyed and think time is being wasted. If you can truly live in those moments without judgement, you are just KILLING it. For real. (more…)
Getting Stuck video – and the analog synthesizer “WheelHarp”, bowing keyboard instrument
Hilarious and haunting video about getting stuck…. BUT THIS: http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/01/22/antiquity-music-intros-wheelharp-string-keyboard/#more-47069 That freaking thing…. “Wheelharp” (more…)
Meta Spam, the beginning of life, crystalline intelligence, socially buttressed algorithms, a coming semantic web, & that damn Nigerian.
Mind you this was sent to my fishbits, but I sort of love how “meta” spam is getting. It’s sorta why Google banked on Plus – it wasn’t a stab at a social network. It was a stab at being crutches for the (more…)
On Tasting Menus, Chefs & Ego, Fine Dining, and Luxury Goods vs perception.
Thomas Keller things we should redefine “chef” to be “worker” instead of “celebrity”. A friend thought it to be nonsense, because it’s all about ego. I disagree… I think it’s more about neuroses. (more…)