The Lil' Zet
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Jul 2nd, 2009 @ 1:59 am
So, I did this today for an Amanda Palmer music video shoot at Hermosa Beach. She ninja-flashmobbed it with the “power of Twitter.” I’m musing…
(Photo from OtterFreak, Flickr.)
Jun 24th, 2009 @ 5:14 pm
Reblogged from not-en*tire,ly tum+bling.
Jun 21st, 2009 @ 9:08 am
Jun 19th, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
Steampunk
While many people fixate on the aesthetics of steampunk, more people ought to take a lesson from the spirit of steampunk, which is, in essence, the spirit of atemporality.
Agreed. And also the ethics that make it work now: appropriation and crafts ethics.
Reblogged from Bryan McKay.
Jun 18th, 2009 @ 3:12 pm
One of the smartest input hacks I’ve seen.Reblogged from Aaron White.
@ 1:44 am
emotionally intelligent trash can signage
Reblogged because I think this is very, very smart. I found something similar in the Whole Foods at Union Square.
(Hat tip to notentirely.)
Reblogged from not-en*tire,ly tum+bling.
Jun 15th, 2009 @ 9:33 pm
“According to a report from an environmental consultancy, ICF International, commissioned by McAfee, a computer-security company, some 62 trillion unsolicited e-mails were sent in 2008, using 33 terawatt hours of electricity. That is equivalent to the energy consumed by 1.5m American homes or 3.1m cars over a year. If generated by coal-fired power stations it would release 17m tonnes of carbon dioxide, some 0.2% of global emissions of this greenhouse gas.”
Green.view: Can the spam | The Economist@ 6:04 am
Reblogged from particular apparatus.
Jun 14th, 2009 @ 6:01 pm
Seeking a Narrative for Iran
squashed puts it perfectly:
Something important is happening in Iran. There was a vote. The official results don’t mesh with unofficial polling. Two parties claimed victory—one of which we like a whole lot more than the other. Now there are riots and accusations of fraud. How do we fit all these facts into a story?
One story is so appealing it is hard to resist. After years of a hostile foreign policy, Obama reached out to the regular people of Iran. Or perhaps people who didn’t trust democracy saw the results of the U.S. Presidential election. Or perhaps people were just sick of the hard-liners. So the forces of reform, led by the youth, mobilized. They scared the hard-liners, who rigged the results. Unwilling to quietly let their dreams be dashed, the reformers with a popular mandate, took to the streets.
But I’m making the connections in the way I want to make them. I can tell another story too. Iran’s reformer—who has some skeletons in his closet—gained a surprising amount of popular support. Of course, those enthusiastic supporters, like Ron Paul’s supporters, are great at being visible, but not-so-great at being a majority. Or perhaps Moussavi was a Howard Dean with vastly over-estimated support. When the election came, Ahmadenijad won handily—and the rioters and protestors are merely another anti-democratic force willing to use force to subject their will on people regardless of any popular mandate. And any calls to support them are simply calls to support a favored minority over the popularly elected government.
I could combine the stories in any number of ways. I don’t know what is happening. Should I temper my opinions in recognition of my lack of objectivity or should I throw caution to the wind and cheer for the people I hope are the people I want to cheer for?
Reblogged from Squashed.
Jun 11th, 2009 @ 3:12 am
Reblogged from not-en*tire,ly tum+bling.
