December 2010
Pac-Manhattan →
Your Apps are Watching You →
An examination of 101 popular smartphone “apps”—games and other software applications for iPhone and Android phones—showed that 56 transmitted the phone’s unique device ID to other companies without users’ awareness or consent. Forty-seven apps transmitted the phone’s location in some way. Five sent age, gender and other personal details to outsiders.
Pooty Poot Hearts the Open Source →
Etewaf →
Thank you Patton Oswalt. Thank you.
—That was well-written, but it read a lot like the rant of an indie music nerd who just found out his favorite underground band signed to a major. Not sure what the point was. The whole purpose of pop culture is to drive consumerism. If you want to service your “thought-palace” you could, I dunno, read a book with no pictures or something.
For some reason the Clone High guys have been tapped to do a 21 Jump Street movie…
Not sure what to think about that one.
WatchJapan! Am I right?
Well I'll be damned...those Numbers Stations... →
New Yorker Miyamoto Profile →
Ludology, bitches.
This could probably pass for a real story in my... →
NYT Bike Lane Debate →
“Promote biking on regular streets, and thus avoid “ghettoizing” cyclists into bike lanes. One problem now is that the bike lanes are usually put on larger streets and avenues, which means that cyclists are mixing with higher speed traffic and higher volumes of traffic. One solution is to make clear that bikes are appropriate on most city streets, even those without bike lanes.”
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5 things you can do to save Fringe right now →
—Also, watch on hulu or Fox’s website. Those kind of stats are being carefully monitored these days.
Batshit Insane Bankster Criminality →
— Fucking wow.
TRUCKEE, Calif. — When Mimi Ash arrived at her mountain chalet here for a weekend ski trip, she discovered that someone had broken into the home and changed the locks.
When she finally got into the house, it was empty. All of her possessions were gone: furniture, her son’s ski medals, winter clothes and family photos. Also missing was a wooden box, its top inscribed with...
For example, the company registered a number of domains for CEO Brian Moynihan: BrianMoynihanBlows.com, BrianMoynihanSucks.com, BrianTMoynihanBlows.com, and BrianTMoynihanSucks.com.
“Why are you validating the false dichotomy of lol vs. ha ha?”
– me
A Typical Day for PFC Bradley Manning →
PFC Manning is held in his cell for approximately 23 hours a day. The guards are required to check on PFC Manning every five minutes by asking him if he is okay. PFC Manning is required to respond in some affirmative manner. At night, if the guards cannot see PFC Manning clearly, because he has a blanket over his head or is curled up towards the wall, they will wake him in order to ensure he...
Androids Dream →
The Pee Test →
Honestly I wanted to back out, but I didn’t want to put her out. And also — her name may have been Lilly, and she may have gotten happy about eating turkey sandwiches and stuff, but she was still an EX-CON. Who KNEW what she was capable of? Then it hit me: I was her pee bitch.
Don't Trust Your Neighbors →
Holder’s beating the “domestic terrorism” drum. Sigh. It was a full two years ago that Fox first started scare mongering about White Al Qaeda. The message now is, “When you get to the airport to go home for the holidays, don’t complain about us looking at your privates.”
“This is the story of the sea squirt: It hatches with a rudimentary spinal cord...”
“The reason for this pattern of response, I think, is that Bush holds matters...”
– Michael Kinsley
In Yogi Bear, Jellystone Park is District 9 (for... →
Yogi Bear is not a kids’ movie. It is a bleak futurist parable about humanity’s inability to accept a non-human sapience. It is also about a bear who wears a hat.
—That was awesome, but it made me think that the bears are really analogs for Native Americans.
US gov assembling vast surveillance database on... →
—File this under news/not news.
Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators.
The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s ...
WatchGoddamn this one’s good.
“He draws me huge puddles around the entire house, and leaves piles. But...”
– Putin on Buffy.
Cage Against the Machine →
Cage Against The Machine is a campaign to get John Cage’s “silent” masterpiece, 4’33”, to Christmas No 1 for 2010. At the time of writing, over 40,000 people have joined the Facebook Group - together, we can make it a silent night on Radio 1. Get the neccessary info straight to your email - we’ll send out a chart-eligible link on December 13th. Sign up here....
