November 2008
22 posts
Keep meaning to upload this recording I made on...
Doom
Doom has been ported to Flash 10 using Automata. Pretty nifty.
Marmoset
If life were fair, this would provoke a rash of Marmoset/Mama Said-related hilarity that would culminate in Lenny Kravitz being led out into Albert Square and hanged.
If life were fair.
Anyway, this made me howl and it’s all AV’s fault.
Kitty Empire, take note
Here is the band that you should pretend to have liked all along when this film comes out next year. You too, Petridis.
The moment, student short film for from Filmakademie Uploaded by mikropikol
Hitler and BNP: Together for the lulz
Chris has given it some deep-dish descriptives on our recent excursion into BNP-LOLing land. Unfortunately he’s made the classic intellectual blunder of quoting me as if I’m some sort of authority. Schoolboy error.
Shhh...Don't tell the fascists
…but we made this.
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Dad, Waugh and Obama
My Dad’s a clever bloke. He’s also, as you might already know, a man of minimal fuss and frippery. He doesn’t fuck about, if that’s the expression I want.
Which is why it surprised me to get the following email from him on the 7th November. The subject was “The well turned phrase” and it was addressed to both me and my sister. (Which immediately marks it down...
Moneyshot: 5 minutes in.
Look, I know I’m on thin ice even acknowledging this guy, but jesus, it makes me giggle. Sounds like he’s forcing a stool.
How big is Will?
(via Whythatsdelightful)
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Google Flu: Visualisation Porn
So loving this article on the correlation between reported cases of flu and aggregated search patterns for flu-related keywords. The thing that strikes me as strange is that anyone is surprised. We have in Google the world’s first universal resource. All human knowledge* is there, all humans** contribute to it, therefore one of the emergent properties of it will be that, analysed correctly,...
Mama Africa
Dark Days
Dark Days is on Google video. An awesome documentary by Marc Singer [via Metafilter]
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Vote for Our Kirsty!
An unprecedented second begging post. Never have I abused my reading public’s patience so much. (So, sorry Mum!)
Still, it’s Christmas (nearly) and it’s morning in America (nearly) so bear with me.
Me old mate Kirsty Harris has been nominated by Artvinyl for Best Album Cover of 2008 for her fucking awesome artwork on Underground Railroad’s most recent album ‘Sticks...
Tennyson’s poem “The Vision of Sin” contains this couplet:
Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
When he published it in 1842, Charles Babbage sent him a note:
“I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world’s population in a state of perpetual equipoise, whereas it is a well-known fact that the said...
La Bomba (The Pump)
Sometimes you’re just in the mood for some dramatic interpretations of Spanish madrigals unironically performed by men in grey tank tops and polyester action-slacks.
[via the unutterably awesome Videosift]
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Nifty doo-hickey
Here’s a few lines on why this New York Times article (for want of a better word) is the best thing I’ve seen on the internet. (Apart from shitwitter, obviously.) It’s like a perfect storm of awesome because all the various aspects of it - design, technology, content, tone etc. support one another. There’s nothing showy about any particular aspect of it, while it...
Dear America:
That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse; We would not die in that man’s company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call’d the feast of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam’d, And rouse him at the name of...
RIP, Jimmy Carl Black - the Indian of the group....
I suspect that the BBC put that wanker on in Jonathan Ross’ place to teach us all a lesson.