February 2012
Concerning the Violent Peace-Police: An Open... →
Over the course of the next 40 years, Gandhi and his movement were regularly denounced in the media, just as non-violent anarchists are also always denounced in the media (and I might remark here that while not an anarchist himself, Gandhi was strongly influenced by anarchists like Kropotkin and Tolstoy), as a mere front for more violent, terroristic elements, with whom he was said to be...
Feb 10th
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Anonymity as Culture: Treatise - Triple Canopy →
Required reading of the day. This is a really thorough piece about 4chan et al.
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My life as a cat: an hour with Terry Cavanagh's... →
Feb 1st
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“Year of the storm 2012 is the year of the storm. The Pirate Bay will reach an...”
– The Pirate Bay - The galaxy’s most resilient bittorrent site
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January 2012
Email me at lanadelreyanalogies@gmail.com for...
cameronr: Attn: Music Journalists - If anyone is looking for some fun things to compare Lana Del Rey to I charge $10/analogy. Metaphors and similes that will make your reader say “True, Lana Del Rey is very similar to that!” out loud. No scathing review of Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born to Die’ is complete without at least TWO poignant comparisons to other things! To prove that I am the real deal and not...
Jan 31st
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“They were playing the game, and I just responded to their game to give them a...”
– Toronto News: Del Grande says he made a ‘mischievous’ proposal to rile Toronto council’s left wing - thestar.com Del Grande just lost the game.
Jan 30th
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Don Tapscott's Radio 'ReCivilization': Building a... →
LOL Tapscott
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Why Twitter’s new policy is helpful for... →
A little counterpoint to the ZOMG! TWITTER IS CENSORING STUFF! hysteria today.
Jan 27th
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“Or you can just give yourself over to the riffs of this massive project, and the...”
– Staff Lists: The Top 50 Albums of 2011 | Features | Pitchfork So, I’m actually digging through P4K’s year-end list and checking out all the cuts on rdio… It’s mostly the same old collection of underproduced murmuring and intentionally boring dubstep, but there are a few...
Jan 27th
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So much ignorance in one small message
epic4chan: An anonymous (little ‘a’) person used my contact form to say: anonymous is going to hack this weekend for Facebook and they’re using a LOIC program that you can download from youtube to participate on the hack. WARN EVERYONE to take down their personal info from Facebook like a phone number, personal bank information, etc. THIS ISN’T A JOKE. Sigh… Anonymous (big ‘a’) is an...
Jan 25th
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The Hermeneutics Of Screwing Around →
towerofsleep: tomewing: Paper by Stephen Ramsay, found via the Stanley Fish article, making the case for serendipitous/chance-driven trails as an alternative to sense-making strategies such as canon-formation or algorithmic big data analysis. I am colossally sympathetic to this and wish I’d read it sooner (it’s from 2010) - chimes w/stuff I’ve been writing about for ages (like this - from 10...
Jan 24th
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tUnE-yArDs are serious business...
People who are weird for the sake of being weird always make the most boring fucking music.
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Why Apple Doesn't Make iPhones in America →
fatmanatee: More stuff to read! This entire five-page article can be summed up just by doing this:
Jan 23rd
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“My party line is, ‘Pal, I’d rather be heard than paid.’ So, if you wanna steal...”
– Henry Rollins (via disc0-lemonade)
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So meta…
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MPAA Uses Anon Attacks To Make Nonsensical... →
Why is Masnick always right!?
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Jan 21st
I want YOU for a roommate →
So, in the course of her apartment hunt, Luisa came across this ad on craigslist, which then links to the above site. We’ve all seen some pretty crazy roommate ads, but this one is definitely close to the top.  I’ll just tease you with some copy from the site: Instead of using pictures (that often show a place at its best, not how it usually is) there are 8 webcams giving you a real...
Jan 20th
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“Free Software is extremely important in the war to maintain control. Users need...”
– The Importance Of Anonymity On The Web
Jan 20th
Police: No ‘good examples’ of why we need Lawful... →
Jan 19th
Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ,... →
towerofsleep: Hell of a news day! Also, the Village Voice reported the death of Damien Hirst. Perhaps regrettably, it was only satire. He was said to have perished following “complications from acute diverticulitis brought on by a swinishly speculative, grossly cynical, intellectually constipated effort to pinch out 11 concurrent exhibitions of rehashed expensive crap.” Can we not have a...
Jan 19th
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RIP MegaUpload...
Who knows exactly why the site was shut down… But it doesn’t change a thing IRT file-sharing. As evidence, here is a list of alternative storage locker sites which essentially provide the exact same service: Rapidshare Hotfile FileSonic Wupload Uploaded Letitbit Extabit FileServe Mediafire Depositfiles Netload Crocko Filefactory Badongo 4shared Przeklej ...
Jan 19th
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“The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all...”
– So this just happened. (Twitter channel.) Well, this is alarming. (via towerofsleep) … I was saying boo-urns.
Jan 19th
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