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"I only liked the first album"

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Benghazi?

I really only liked the first album.

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Jon Spenser Blues Explosion @ The Independent

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RIP RadioShack. Fond memories of loose components and free batteries. The name and address routine, not so much.

Maybe they should have sold Arduinos instead of cell phones.

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Wut?

(From the Delta in-flight magazine. No answer is even close to analogous but the solution was given as “d.” Also, why “is” rather than “are?”)

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Quick update from Istanbul (laptop has networking issues, so keeping it short).

1 - The Ottomans were the original hipsters.

2 - You can get from Europe to Asia faster than you can get from San Francisco to Oakland.

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Best. Cover. Ever.

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Software Infrastructure: The proposition that if you shovel enough manure into a barn that a pony will magically appear.

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A short video about Daniel Johnston. It's worth waiting for the end.

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A drawing on the back of one of the 28 extant pages of the Origin of Species manuscript by one of Darwin's children.

It's a fascinating window into the life of one of history's most innovative thinkers, most careful observers and clearest writers. I can't recommend reading him enough.

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Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama

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It's funny because it's true.

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Weather report.

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Graph fail

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Prophet of the Singularity?

An interesting article (via Mefi):

Nothing human makes it out of the near-future. ... Can what is playing you make it to level 2?

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Nick Land embarked on a speculative exploration of the post-human, at great cost to his own sanity. Someone had to do it.

I'm not quite as optimistic as some friends about the future, though I am aware that Collapse is based on false facts. Easter Island did not collapse; the people adapted. Humans are nothing if not adaptable.

Still, an intriguing question in a world that will surely see true AIs in the near future, in which economic and political systems have little interest in actual people, in which the most profitable corporations are already man-machine cyborgs, and which faces near-certain climate catastrophe: Can what is playing you make it to level 2?

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Boing Boing's GIF of the Year contest.

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Helicopters

If we win, helicopters. If we lose, helicopters.