BlogBites

December 28th, 2005

It’s so hilarious and so jarring, to read about how these hippies are so evil and mean to these nice, upper-class kids. toastykitten  

It must be awfully uncomfortable watching TV or going to the movies with a stick up your ass. James Wolcott  

So we have 10 days left in the Creative Commons campaign. This is not a drill. We are down to the last $100,000, and really need your support — both for the very cool projects we’re launching (see, e.g., the license interoperability project, discussed recently in Technology Review, and the two new projects announced this week), and for the very uncool pressure we’re under from IRS regulations to demonstrate “public support” as a condition for keeping our (absolutely essential as in we can’t live with out it) tax exempt status. So please, anything helps. Lots of anything helps lots. Lawrence Lessig  

Goodbye Corporate America, I hope I never have to work in another one of your shitty little cubicles again. Monkeys with Fezzes  

Like the village bells that created a sense of identity and place in medieval France, these terrifyingly loud and invasive technologies interpellate our bodies in ways that, despite the shock that they produce, ultimately come to seem ‘natural’ and ‘legitimate’ after a certain period of time, one simply integrates them into daily experience and forgets that they are there in the background; then, as Nietzsche said, we forget that we forgot, and the governmentalization of sensation is complete. jasonadams  

So, seeing as how the highball glasses are dog knows where, we poured ourselves some fine scotch into — what else? — 8 oz. canning jars. Bitch | Lab  

I saw like a million Santas, and I only saw one Jesus, and that one was on one of those stupid fuckin’ Franklin Mint painted plates in somebody’s living room. Jaundice James  

Wearing a Bush mask and masturbating on on a map of Iraq with an F-117A Stealth fighter shaped Fleshlight — now that’s art. God is for Suckers!  

If the Intelligent Designer can cause worms to spontaneously generate, surely He can do the same for the lowly crab louse. Jesus’ General  

December 27th, 2005

I know, or anyway I keep trying to convince myself that I know, that in real life the Mr. Potters of the world aren’t defeated that easily. (Occasionally they’re elected Vice President.) Body and Soul  

I hate to be the prophet of doom and gloom around here, but lately the facts just haven’t let me give in to unbridled optimism. Total Information Awareness  

What people want is control and quality. yapaZOO  

I’m delighted to see that somebody from the music industry realizes that the best thing for all concerned is less litigation and more exploitation. Technology & Marketing Law Blog  

With enough data, many computational problems transform into search problems. So Many Schemes  

Why are Americans so deadset on re-inventing the wheel when it comes to a national healthcare system? ratboy’s anvil