April 2010
By the way, has anyone ever written a serious piece about how the Kings of Leon turned into a bunch of giant blubbering sooks once they shaved off their beards?
I'm lying.
I totally got a manual.
“I’d figured those people with thousands of followers and tweets with hundreds of...”
– Albuquerque Ryan
Nobody gets an instruction manual, Ryan. I’ll tell you what I’ve learned though –– nobody ever made friends by staying indoors and railing against the world.
You fuckers are all assholes why don’t you have your next tweetup near my house in melbourne australia oh dear dear dear you make me sad by doing things that suit you but don’t suit me a person you have never heard of you elite fucks also i never got many hugs and sometimes i cut myself to see if blood comes out because otherwise how would i know my heart still beats?
“This is a country that began with the most enormous trauma, and things like that...”
– Novelist Peter Carey on Australia, New York Times (via literarypiano, buyhercandy) (via alexjcampbell)
“Plenty of men’s magazines contain beautiful naked people and some articles that...”
– Filament: The Thinking Woman’s Porn Magazine (via pegobry)
Ladies and Gentlemen! Please Welcome! To the Stage! Fresh from their BLASTING THE WORLD Tour!
GIVIDUP FOR BigStupidMuttonFingers!
To everyone who wished that the iPad ran a full...
Get a VNC client on the iPad, use it to connect to any mac that has VNC turned on, and then try to do anything at all with your big stupid mutton-fingers.
It’s a reasonably odd thing when you catch up with friends for the first time in months and they already know what’s going on in your life because they follow the blog of foul-mouthed things your significant other says.
Melbourne's Keith Haring mural in urgent need of... →
Interestingly, there’s been a furore lately about the city council painting over a Banksy. This Haring, around the corner from my apartment is much more rare and of arguably greater cultural significance.
My semi-regular and plaintive request to...
Please, if you have nothing better to do, could you consider implementing groups in the dashboard? There’s plenty of reasons to use something like this, but I’ll be honest. I follow some NSFW-style people and I’d like to be able to switch them on and off depending on where I am reading.
Anyway, keep it real and don’t go changing. Except for changing to include groups in...
“And call me crazy, but I don’t think it’s the healthiest thing in the world to...”
– one forty plus.: Twitter Isn’t “Over”, I’m Over It.
I’ve been mostly offline for the past few days, so I don’t know if this has been posted all over your dashboards already.
In a way it’s charming to see someone as public as Mr Mayer (and I’m...
I am a pretty tall guy, but I have delicate little lady-fingers. Yet still I mash the various parts of the iPad interface like my hands were made of Salami. How are big sausage-fingered truck-driving types going to cope with this?
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-25) →
Art Brut (23)
M. Craft (19)
Fluf (14)
Evan Dando (14)
CAKE (12)
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“You know that when reporters start interviewing reporters, the options are...”
– The Age, Suppressed to order.
“The idea that humans, for all their technological might, could be put in their...”
– After the volcano: Earthly powers (via marco which is how I was lead to the previous thing I posted.)
“the clear blue skies were bereft of the silver needles that sew the world...”
– A wonderful turn of phrase from After the volcano: Earthly powers | The Economist
“The tale of the curious micro-nation landlocked on a 75-square-kilometre wheat...”
– The Age, A man’s Hutt is his castle
40 years ago, the man who now styes himself Prince Leonard of Hutt seceded from Australia. Somewhat oddly, the Australian and Western Australian governments have never really bothered doing anything about it.
The Principality has its own website, and you...
Ben & Anneke's Big Adventure →
Ben and Anneke are really good friends of mine and Erin’s. You may remember them from the wedding we went to a couple of weeks ago. They’ve now left for their honeymoon –– a four-month journey through Asia and Europe. –– and here’s where they keep all their friends in the loop about what’s going on.
They’re wonderful people. Maybe you’ll like their blog.
Wait.
Is the tubing of the bike filled with explosives? Like a French Resistance bike that initially it looks all normal because it has a basket filled with garlic and baguettes, but then it explodes and your wife back in Dusseldorf gets a letter written in blackletter from the Reichswehr?
Awesome. I would like one of those bikes with a white frame and black rims, no brakes and fixed gears.
Oh I love terrible jokes about tragic events.
Apparently just before he died Carl Williams told prison guards that they should get rowing machines in the prison gym. He said the exercise bikes really did his head in.
“Our dwindling supply of phosphorus, a primary component underlying the growth of...”
– Peak Phosphorus, and Why It Matters - By James Elser and Stuart White | Foreign Policy
Spoilers, but like from 18 months or so ago.
You know what I say? I say it’s super-easy to get on the mock-wagon and mock M. Night Shymalan because he likes his films to have twists and stuff. But you know what? All you fuckos who bagged him out for his twists are why he went and made a film with killer tree farts in it.
Think about it. To make you happy, he made a film about trees that fart when they are angry at humanity. Those...
Of course Othello 2011 couldn’t be called that. That’s just like the working title to put on IMDB to create a little buzz.
It would probably be called “Not another Fucking Shakespeare Remake that nobody gets”. Or “Gowallo”.
“A total of 1737 high-speed trains currently operate on dozens of different...”
– Greens to push $40bn fast-rail link to Sydney
“AUSTRALIA has vaulted back into the top 10 of the developed world’s rich...”
– Australia 8th-richest: IMF
An explanatory model: how robotic technological...
jorshuwah:
If I’d designed a robot to break into museums and steal shit & then one day he got caught. That would be a big incentive to make the robot FEEL. Because it would suck if I was just beating this robot down at the police station with a steel pipe and I was just getting tired and swearing etc (seriously how could he be so effing stupid) and the police were yelling at me and he...
Othello 2011
Othello is a nerd with some DSM IV bullshit disorder.
Iago is /b/.
The handkerchief is Desdemona’s FourSquare checkin history.
I’m thinking Michael Cera for Othello. Hollywood, get up on this.
“Christine, can I ask you about Carl Williams? Are you glad that he’s dead?”
– Awful person, Gorgi Coghlann, asks Christine Nixon an awful question on her awful show.
“LANCE Franklin and Nathan Jones have been given the thumbs up on their body art...”
– Tatts the way, Lance Franklin | Herald Sun
Ok, so this is pretty cool. →
Erin’s sister’s vintage clothing thing (and Erin’s sister as model) are featured on the front page of ChicTopia.
“dynamic mental acuity”
– Some arsehole. I don’t know.
“It’s one thing to steal someone else’s writing and pass it off as your own, but...”
– Boxcar Kyla
You know, I flatter myself to believe that I have a certain dynamic mental acuity. A thing I like about myself is that I can connect seemingly disparate concepts and show how the two are actually related.
This particular one, however, is great. I could never have come up with it. Chuck...
“After all, while children may be vulnerable to certain elements of the internet,...”
– The Age, Stephen Conroy’s Internet Filter
Acupuncturist's little prick impregnates patient. →
“Let it be known that the reblog was of a Bukowski poem. The people that Tumblr...”
– Boxcar Kyla
SO LET IT BE WRITTEN. SO LET IT BE DONE.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-4-18) →
Sufjan Stevens (31)
Adam Green (31)
Blur (28)
Graham Coxon (22)
You Am I (19)
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Detention centre like a prison, say Tamils →
Also, this water seems to be wet.