28.2.05

Time was that a world-changing news datum would come every ten years or so, if that. The world was slow. Around the time of the Industrial Revolution, that ramped up to a dizzying rate of one a year. Towards the end of the Twentieth Century, the rate was up to one a week, quickly reaching one a day in the early 21st.

Today, the rate is one every fifteen minutes.
Como pude viver tanto tempo sem um dicionário de insultos em 165 línguas?
Laurence Lessig fala bastante sobre o Brasil nessa entrevista.
I have tendonitis in both arms, a chronic condition that causes me quite a bit of pain if I'm not careful. I use various devices to help me work around it, including a wireless curved keyboard and an ergonomic mouse that I can use with either hand. If I have a bad flare-up, I stay off the keys for a day or two and hire my sister to type for me.

And I never masturbate by hand anymore.
Cientistas canadenses abriram buracos nos crânios de pessoas com depressão profunda e instalaram eletrodos no cérebro deles. E funcionou bem.
Jef Raskin - um dos inventores do Macintosh - morreu no sábado. O terceiro cara que eu admiro o trabalho que morreu neste ano.
Isso é um hacker! O resto é script kid.
Eye Candy: Digifox.
"Are they just basically saying we just can't travel without identity papers? If that's true, then I'd rather see us go through a real debate that says we want to introduce required identity papers in our society rather than trying to legislate it through the back door through regulations that say there's not any other way to get around," Gilmore said. "Basically what they want is a show of obedience."

As happens to the disobedient, Gilmore is grounded.
Por sua aparição para receber o Framboesa de Ouro de pior atriz, eu agora respeito Hally Berre muito mais.

27.2.05

Running with Greil Marcus' comment that Marxist theorist Theodore Adorno's vicious anti-mass culture rants were akin in spirit to punk rock, Brian Joseph Davis has recorded a five-track limited-edition EP of choice quotes from Adorno's "Minima Moralia" performed as agitprop punk. The best is "Every work of art is an uncommitted crime."

25.2.05

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O Christian Science Monitor é suspeito, mas esse texto sobre a volta da religiosidade à Europa me assusta e entristece. Não sei se ainda quero ser europeu quando crescer.
Por que Bruce Sterling passa cada vez mais tempo com designers? Não é só porque eles se vestem melhor que escritores de ficção científica.

23.2.05

Tem gente que goza no Dreamcast. Tem gente que goza com o Xbox.
Algumas manhas para aproveitar melhor o Google.
Quantas histórias são possíveis com Lois lane tentando casar com o Super-Homem? Quantas com o kryptoniano sacaneando Jimmy Olsen e vice-versa?

Um monte, parece.
Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe.


Merda! Porque meu plano é dominar essa bagaça e destruir antes que tomem de mim.