- The 2002 political climate – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com
Connie Chung is history’s greatest monster (cc @ggreenwald)
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Links – May 21, 2012
- Buttersafe » What it Means to be Alive
It wasn’t *that* special
- Responsive Tables by ZURB
A CSS/JS solution for tables that allows them to shrink on small devices without sacrificing the value of tables, comparison of columns.
- Los Angeles Review of Books – Take A Picture
- Under Angeles
the subway abides
- LA’s original subway | Gelatobaby
Last week, @gelatobaby toured L.A.’s *original* subway system, now bricked up beneath buildings downtown. Amazing:
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/zota/status/204381707829395457/photo/1)
Deluxe cosmic event viewing station
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/zota/status/204380817047293952/photo/1)
Eclipse in the driveway.
Links – May 20, 2012
- The Literary Equivalent of Code That Performs Nothing
authorial null state?
- Frank Frazetta’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ Illustrations Make Middle Earth Metal – ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews
- Legal highs making the drug war obsolete
new drugs developed far faster than they can be banned
- DRB Pic of the Day: Propeller-driven "The Bennie Railplane"
- Thomas Friedman on his travels to Silicon Valley & Seattle | Chime.in
"16 of the top 100 best-sellers on Kindle were self-published" Jeff Bezos on elimination of agents, publishers, paper:
- Los Angeles Post-Punk, D.I.Y. and New Wave (1979-1987)
Los Angeles Post-Punk, D.I.Y. and New Wave (1979-1987)
Links – May 19, 2012
- Tripping Through the Cold War: Drug Warfare in the Retrofuture
- How Does Fair Use Fit Into The Critique Of Copyright?
- New Zealand Tourism Posters, 1930s
- The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn’t a Crook—He’s an Artist | Threat Level | Wired.com
- Alien Still Hasn’t Gotten Around To Listening To Whole Voyager Golden Record | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Alien Still Hasn’t Gotten Around To Listening To Whole Voyager Golden Record
- io9 charts how visions of the future changed over time
- 6 Reasons Why You Should Quit Blogging
- Obscura Society LA: Forest Lawn Cemetery Exploration
RT @atlasobscura: In LA on June 2: Join us for an exploration of one of the most unusual cemeteries in the US #obsc …
Links – May 18, 2012
- Shopping on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, California: Style: GQ
CONFIRMED GQ OUTBREAK IN VENICE. Do Not Approach The Victims — They Are No Longer Human. You Cannot Save Them.
- Clifton’s renovation: Secret diaries, hidden treasure and the oldest piece of neon in the world :: blogdowntown
The oldest piece of neon in the world, running continuously behind a wall for 70 years.
- Clifton’s renovation: Secret diaries, hidden treasure and the oldest piece of neon in the world
- Perhaps it is not a city
a vast, red hot vacuum
- BLDGBLOG: SubBrit
Quick new post on BLDGBLOG urges you to join @subbrit and includes links to some interesting underground news:
- TED and inequality: The real story – TEDChris: The untweetable
- Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem. – The Washington Post
Links – May 17, 2012
- Justice Dept. Defends Public’s Constitutional ‘Right to Record’ Cops
- WordPress in place of Sharepoint
- Jane Chafin: Duchamp’s Urinal? Maybe Not!
more to suggest "Duchamps urinal" was actually Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven’s urinal . via @mitpress
- Justin Pickard : gonzo futurists
a subset of the power weirdo
- (404) http://t.co/g8H
RT @Coudal: Status update: Although it’s still comfortably Wednesday, the situation is fluid and could change quickly.
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Links – May 16, 2012
- The Listening Machine
music generated in real time by twitter usage
- Abandoning the Orphans: An Open Access Approach to Hostage Works by Lydia Loren :: SSRN
"Hostage works" as the more accurate term
- Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? – NYTimes.com
- The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
Belle de Jour talks about her experince
Links – May 15, 2012
- Untitled (http://gizmodo.com/5909961/kodak-had-a-secret-weapons+grade-nuclear-reactor-hidden-in-a-basement)
If Kodak was allowed to have weapons-grade uranium reactor, what the fuck does Exxon have stashed in THEIR basement?
- Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived – The Oatmeal
Tesla.
Links – May 14, 2012
- Chris de Burgh – Don’t Pay The Ferryman
– YouTubeSquirrels are jumpy and freaked out because they perceive the world as an overwrought Chris de Burgh video. - Griffith Observatory – A History of Griffith Observatory
May 14: 1935: Griffith Observatory formally opened on land donated by Griffith J. Griffith. Observatory history:
- Specimenism
RT @underware: If this doesn’t make you hot, type is not made for you and you’re not made for type —
- Mat Gleason: Do Corporate Sponsors at MOCA Have Censorship Authority?
MOCA: brought to you by some dude wearing a gold chain with a Mercedes logo hanging from it. So shut up.
- The CEO’s weekly checklist
- MORE ON MACHINE TRANSLATION.
- YouTube: the possible future
Jack Williamson
- Why TV is Better Than Games | GamesIndustry International
Links – May 13, 2012
- Golden Dawn (Greece) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Golden Dawn" (the Greek neo-Nazi party) opposes the "so-called Enlightenment" and the Industrial Revolution.
Links – May 12, 2012
- BLDGBLOG: Papercraft
"In other words, only if you know exactly what to look for—or in a strange moment of speculative paranoia—would you realize that the paper on the walls around you is actually an electronic device. "
- Pin-Up Girls Before and After II, 1950s
- THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World – The Rumpus.net
I’m serious, you guys. Read this piece. It’s so good and so important.
- BETALEVEL » The Signal Archive
Nostalgic for dial-up modem sounds? Come feel the way you will feel about mobile device interference… in the future!
- Chris Poole part 1/3- ROFLCON 2012 – Solo Panel
– YouTubeI loved Chris Poole’s ROFLCon talk on the changing meme landscape: (Cameo by @fredbenenson’s anti-SOPA shirt.)
Links – May 11, 2012
- Reasons to love you, Game of Thrones
- » A Digital Hornbook for the Digital Humanities? SAMPLE REALITY
- Ben Jackson on memes, the Internet, and the divine
- Untitled (http://twitter.com/dvsch/status/200768670744584193/photo/1)
Love this sign. Old lasubway station
- Google agrees with Mozilla’s Windows RT browser concerns | Business Tech – CNET News
The very idea of "innovation in the browser space" should make you cackle with despair.
Links – May 10, 2012
- AREvent day 2 User experience in AR, Ben Cerveny (Bloom)- Ambient Discovery AREvent on USTREAM. Conferencia
quite pleased by the enthusiastic response to my talk at ARE today. looks like it is already viewable on the interwebs:
- NYT: Game Over for the Climate
- Welcome to the Future Nauseous
- Bat, Bean, Beam: Endings
Links – May 9, 2012
- Articles: Strange Anomalies in the Famous Situation Room Photo
There’s critical paranoia. There’s clinical paranoia. And then there’s rightwing disavowal of all forms of consensus reality. "Referring back to the "Situation Room" photo again, look at the difference in head size between Obama and Biden"
- A List Apart: Articles: Say No to Faux Bold
get the actual font for your headings and a bold fallback font when fallback happens.
- Olympics Brand Exclusion Zone
"The most carefully policed Brand Exclusion Zone will be around the Olympic Park, and extend up to 1km beyond its perimeter, for up to 35 days. Within this area, officially called an Advertising and Street Trade Restrictions venue restriction zone, no advertising for brands designated as competing with those of the official Olympic sponsors will be allowed."
- California Proposition 8 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What kind of redneck hillbillies would amend their Constitution to enshrine bigotry???
Oh yeah. Californians.
- There Is Actually Nothing Better in the World Than Talking About Yourself
"Just as monkeys are willing to forgo juice rewards to view dominant groupmates and college students are willing to give up money to view attractive members of the opposite sex, our participants were willing to forgo money to think and talk about themselves."
- Study helps explain why we over-share on Facebook, Twitter – latimes.com
- t.co / Twitter
RT @thinkprogress: FACT: Last time North Carolina amended their constitution on marriage it was to ban interracial marriage …
Links – May 8, 2012
- The Circus. 1870s–1950s | if we could fly
including "Blacaman, Hinu Animal Hypnotist"
- From Graduate School to Welfare
"Many administrators are not aware of the whole extent of the problem. But all it takes is for somebody to run the numbers to see that their faculty is eligible for welfare assistance."
- Are you here for the meth? « Dan Cull Weblog
“The energizing and obsessive effects make it fun, almost pleasurable, for tweakers to do the tedious work of artifact hunting."
- Peter Vidani on the Evolution of the Tumblr Dashboard
- Shanghai Expression: Graphic Design in China in the 1920s and 30s – 50 Watts
- Retail Theft | Theft Prevention | Organized Retail Crime | Booster Bag | Checkpoint Systems, Inc.
Sarah Vanson’s radio silence Faraday bag will set off every alarm gate while shopping #not_silent
- Sarah van Sonsbeeck, artist
Sarah Vanson’s radio silence Faraday bag will set off every alarm gate while shopping #not_silent
