October 2009
reblogging: "my mom on america's most wanted... →
azspot:
My mom was almost on America’s Most Wanted. A couple months ago my mom’s friend’s neighbor was shot while he was standing in his driveway. He caught a stray bullet from a gunfight between drug dealers. The bullet passed through my mom’s friends fence to hit and kill him. 3 guys in a car made their getaway. Two were caught but the third is still on the loose. Much to the chagrin of the...
“It does not bespeak great wisdom to call the film The Bad Lieutenant, and I only...”
– Werner Herzog discusses Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. (Trailer)
Via The Awl
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Advanced Studio V: Evil
Kazys>
Tainter offers two solutions to the problem of complexity. The first is collapse. Once societies can no longer provide sufficient returns, individuals make the choice to leave the complex society, to “walk away” from it all. As the society sheds layers of complexity, it reverts to a more primitive order. To a minor degree, last year’s stock market crash was an example of that, as...
WatchJohn Underkoffler. Conversations tonight blew my mind, though certainly the percoset and sake helped. But even so. Here, Oblong’s tamper system (Vimeo)
Conspicuous, but not Consuming
From Good Magazine.
>Professional thirtysomethings spend more time polishing their LinkedIn pages than pruning their front lawns. Prospective singles—men and women—focus more on tweaking their Match.com or eHarmony profiles than they do searching for that perfect convertible. An entrepreneur friend in Silicon Valley recently told me he sold his BMW because he was embarrassed to show up in it...
“SenseCam is a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs...”
– Microsoft Research SenseCam
“Imagine if there were an easy way for digital media to be preserved indefinitely...”
– We Keep Finding Historically Significant Photos. Will Our Grandchildren? | Columnists | Mediaite
“Have we forgotten how to forget? Viktor Mayer-Schönberger worries about this....”
– Amazed I just found out about this. Clive Thompson on Remembering Not to Remember in an Age of Unlimited Memory
“SenseCam is a wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs...”
– Microsoft Research SenseCam
“You’ve committed your life to Jesus. You know you’re saved. But...”
– Eternal Earth-Bound Pets, USA
“In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is...”
– Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets | Danger Room | Wired.com
“Ponoko is piecing together an infrastructure for this new kind of supply chain,...”
– The Future of Manufacturing
Dripping With Looks // Game Theory // Lolita...
“If the game is to identify and connect the innovators, how do you identify them...”
– 10 Ways to Recognize an Innovator « It’s Saul Connected
WatchKio accompanied the Quarantine Studio visit to services yesterday.
“Staten Island cops giving pomp and circumstance to the reinterment of 19th century immigrants who died in the SI quarantine station. They were buried the first time in a mass grave, then dug up to make a parking lot and store in an “anthropologist’s lab” in Brooklyn (which begs answers I do not...
“Nokia, at the height of its success, decided not to adapt its phones for the...”
– Nokia Tries to Undo Blunders in U.S. - NYTimes.com
