What You Live By

I cannot believe Bill Hicks is dead and this motherfucker is still touring.

Lindy West, “Gallagher Is a Paranoid, Right-Wing, Watermelon-Smashing Maniac”

Notes: 1 7/5/10, 1:07pm Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xszcsfj93

No, I want to do some more production. I want to make some more music but not worry about making an album on album schedule— doing an album release, press, and videos and tour— and I want to do some weird stuff. I want to get some bad ideas and follow them through. You never get to now. I want to do music for the subway— I want to make music so that when you go through the turnstile it doesn’t just go “eeeh!”. Make them all separate tones that are in key. So like during rush hour in big subway stations it would make this kind of harmonic music. Just bad ideas. The only reason to get semi-successful is so you can do that shit.

James Murphy

6/21/10, 8:01pm Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xszbyqv9t

The Suck-Up Game

Gizmodo’s Brian Lam to Steve Jobs, April 19 2010:

I get that it would hurt sales to say this is the next iphone. I have no interest in hurting sales. That does nothing to help Gizmodo or me.

I know you like walt and pogue, and like working with them, but I think Gizmodo has more in common with old Apple than those guys do. So I hope you understand where I’m coming from.

And I want to work closer with Apple, too. I’m not asking for more access — we can do our jobs with or without it — but again, this is the only way we can survive while being cut out of things.

Gizmodo’s Jason Chen to Josh Gamble, April 20 2010:

We’re only concerned with the story, not with how it will hurt or help our relationship with Apple. We don’t play the suck-up game.

PRINT THIS POST WORDS: 5/15/10, 12:12am Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xsz9x523i Filed under: #apple #gizmodo #compareandcontrast

Having been weaned on Contra in my youth, I’m no stranger to shooting things in glowing weak points until they die, but this is just excessive.

Brad Shoemaker

5/12/10, 9:45am Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xsz9sqgl1

I’m glad the Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards. I’m glad it encouraged a generation of kids to tinker and explore. I’m also glad that I don’t live in the fucking ’70s and have to type in programs from a magazine anymore.

Joel Johnson, in response to Cory Doctorow. (via David Jacobs)

Notes: 1 4/2/10, 3:47pm Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xsz84qpau Filed under: #ipad #apple #geek culture #the 70's

Open and better” is a recipe for success; “open but worse” is a recipe for obscurity.

John Gruber

3/18/10, 5:01pm Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xsz7k950c

Bathroom assaults. Terrifying encounters. Women all over America are being attacked and beaten in nightclub and hotel restrooms. How to protect yourself in a public ladies’ room. Information you need to know! Then: swimming with tigers.

The synopsis for tonight’s poorly timed episode of Inside Edition.

3/17/10, 9:51am Short URL: http://tumblr.com/xsz7ikar9

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A lot of you have been raising concerns about the so-called “dangers” of what we’re all doing here. The beancounters told me to tell you that as of today, testing will no longer be as mandatory or as dangerous. That’s not gonna happen, and here’s the reason:

Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not. You ask: Why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: Why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won’t hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired.

Plus, in the event of your death, I personally guarantee that, thanks to the form you were required to sign this morning, your family will not suffer the indignities of a prolonged and costly legal battle against Aperture Science. Trust me, I am rich, and it is a burden I would not wish on anyone.

Am I hyped for Portal 2? Yes I am.