June 2011
9 tags
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
4 tags
I can think of nothing heavier than an airplane / no greater conglomerate of...
– Saul Williams, quoted by Sha Hwang: I love airports, love flying.
9 tags
14 tags
The first thing you do when you take a piece of paper is always put the date on...
– Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration (via deathbeard)
I keep thinking that I’ve drummed this point home, but perhaps not, so: it still amazes me that almost everything we do online has a timestamp (if not two), and yet services are so bad about exposing them, and...
7 tags
11 tags
Compare and Contrast: Rail Edition
BBC News: China tests Beijing-Shanghai bullet train
Engineers have conducted a test-run of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail link, days before its public launch.
Officials, reporters and company bosses were on board for the 300 km/h (190mph) train’s maiden voyage, which the government has promised will halve the journey time to under five hours.
China is planning to roll out...
6 tags
Babies & This Is Hardcore
I can’t remember who mentioned it, but a few months ago I saw someone mention Pulp’s This Is Hardcore music video, and I dug it out and watched it. Recently I think I’ve seen it every week or two. It’s fantastic.
It dates from a time when bands were more free not to perform in videos, but instead to just go a little crazy. So you get Cocker in a minute-long Busby Berkeley...
6 tags
5 tags
7 tags
Should Jay have the right to claim the derived image isn’t fair use and ask for...
– James Duncan Davidson writing about The Maisel vs Baio Incident.
I strongly agree with this. Currently the US (and, largely, the UK) ration access to the law on the ability of both the (sometimes prospective) litigant and defender to pay, rather than the merits of the case.
Another piece (also via...
8 tags
8 tags