January 2012
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oneafter909:
Etta James and the Peaches - The...
Tonight is cheap tacos
chrismohney:
and expensive champagne. Next year will become insane almost immediately. Really it’s already insane, its insanity so profound it became asynchronous with the calendar and infected the end of the previous year. But tonight there will be a small, sturdy zone of calm, established on this foundation of cheap tacos and expensive champagne. Here I shall make my stand, till next week.
December 2011
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Watchclaytoncubitt:
Your must watch today.
Beat This! Hip Hop History 1984 (via Django’s Ghost)
BBC documentary on early hiphop in NYC. Features Afrika Bambaataa blowing some kid’s minds at a planetarium, also sitting on a sailboat in NY harbor (!), DJ Kool Herc driving some huge speakers around in his convertible in the Bronx, and talking about his stabbing. Malcolm McLaren retelling his trip to...
November 2011
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“We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful...”
– Matt Taibbi
(via joshuanguyen)
The man can be hyperbolic, but this is an accurate statement.
Smash the state.
(via youngmanhattanite)
October 2011
21 posts
Watchallnightdiner:
blameaspartame:
paulscheer:
Great Story. Insane Performance.
jakefogelnest:
jakefogelnest:
Well it took some digging but I found it online on some weird Czechoslovakian YouTube knockoff site. Here is FEAR’s legendary performance from “Saturday Night Live” in 1981. The story of how this insanity came to be begins with John Belushi.
Belushi loved punk rock. Here’s an...
“If you use Gmail, please use Google’s new “two-step verification” system. In...”
– Hacked! - Magazine - The Atlantic
seriously, really, this is worth doing. it is a tiny degree of hassle every 30 days but worth it for the extra security. and it’s not that much grief to set up ‘application specific’ passwords for apps on ipad/phone/etc
(via interestingsnippets)
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Social Media's Secret Weapon: Email →
Fred Wilson: “The theme in board meeting after board meeting in recent months is driving repeat usage and retention. Whether the product is a mobile app, a social app, a mobile social app, a marketplace, an ecommerce business, or something else, everyone is looking at montly actives/total registered users and saying “let’s push that number up and to the right.” And I’m nodding my head in violent...
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September 2011
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“Facebook’s version of autobiography is very specific. It is data-driven. It is...”
– Alexis Madrigal | Facebook Timeline: Putting the Auto in Autobiography (via courtenaybird)
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“With a botnet of 25,000 computers, you could break the security codes for...”
– As many as 12 million computers worldwide have been infected with a highly-encrypted computer worm called Conficker. Writer Mark Bowden details how Conficker was discovered, how it works, and the ongoing programming battle to bring down Conficker on today’s Fresh Air. (via nprfreshair)
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