DroneOn has been talking about field recording techniques lately which led to the following links (which I’m putting into The Record here) Quiet American Hours and hours of field recordings of everyday life in Vietnam: Folks walking down the street, … Continue reading →

Technorati is a new ‘blog/Google/Googlejuice/ad infinitum meta-indexer and statistics gatherer. Kinda cool really and I discovered that Mike James was linking to me (hello!).

Long, thoughtful analysis of the new Flaming Lips album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. Specifically, who wins the battle?

In 1968, Doug Engelbart at SRI demoed NLS, a computer system the research group had been working on for six years. Engelbart shows off a mouse, hyperlinking, network collaboration, file cut/copy/paste – pretty much everything that we think of as … Continue reading →

Hey, I thought they were supposed to be denying this sort of stuff? Yesterday at approximately 4 p.m. (EST) North American Aerospace Defense Command received unverified reports of what appeared to be a contrail of unknown origin in the vicinity … Continue reading →

Straight off the pages of a Syd Mead or Robert McCall art book, The Moon is the next mega-hotel/casino planned for Las Vegas. Instant 1970s-era retrofuture! Where’s my back issues of Omni Magazine? I am so there. [via Boing Boing]

On the twelfth day of fascismJohn Ashcroft gave to meTwelve digital implantsEleven years protestingTen less amendmentsNine internment campsEight surveillance camerasSeven TIPsters tippingSix snoops a-sniffingFive CarnivoresFour airport friskingsThree wiretappingsTwo detained MuslimsAnd a Department of Homeland Security [via Politics in the Zeros]

The new Get Your War On hits another home run.

Insert any and all bug movie cliches here. The photos of this thing are amazing… A biology professor in northern British Columbia has spotted a clover field crawling with spiders. Brian Thair of the College of New Caledonia in Prince … Continue reading →

Tons of thoughts about the Enoch Root character in Neal Stephenson‘s Cryptonomicon. I figured there was something up with Root because of his name: Enoch, a Biblical character that gains some sort of transdimensional Enlightenment. And Root, which is the … Continue reading →