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Pattern Recognition: Graphing the internet.
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Pattern Recognition: Meta-clusterfuck.
Monday, November 19th, 2007This here thing is a thing about this thing, which is a thing about this thing, which is a thing about this series of things about things that seem crazily real but aren’t.
YES, THIS IS WHAT IS HYPER ABOUT LINKS.
p.s. fuck youtube’s quick capture i love it but fuck it
Pattern Recognition: Generational Culture Shock.
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Once upon a time, rap was a hard-knocks-triumphant honor to have as a career; rap was a portrait of black, urban life overcome in America. Now, rap is winning the lottery and not even tipping your hat at the ghetto. DJ Shadow expressed it precisely with this song that explained the problem with hip hop in ‘96, “It’s the money.” (ALSO: Whatever happened to DJ Shadow? What a loss? I seriously am not sure)
I gave a bit of a rambling speech wondering how the generation currently coming of age will handle having grown up during a dudfucking rut in American culture. I was pretty tired but I think i got the idea out of my mouth (and subsequently the head for the night).
That’s the thought for today? How brainwashed was I by Mister Rogers? Anyway, I found out today that a huge reference I have made a few times was a reference to something that didn’t exist, so I responded to myself. Embarrassment aside, I’m trying to set myself straight today.
TIP: There’s a hole in my Mario Pants? TRAGEDY; AM I RIGHT? Yes.
We’ve gotten to the point where even people with shitty taste are tired of how crappy mass media has gotten this last decade. I also forgot to mention how I am seeing 2009 as being the beginning of a new era for a culture-starved and corporate-ruined country. Guess why.
News flash: Britney Spears is no Madonna.
(p.s. thank fucking god for wordpress’s autosave, but i lost all my tags)
(P.P.S. I don’t really like the band Priestess. Better make a Priestess tag just for safe keeping)
Pattern Recognition: What life doth?
Sunday, November 4th, 2007The new adult swim show for this week, Xavier: Renegade Angel is a cd-rom loaded nightmare from 1994. The show looks like cutscenes from all the adventure and puzzle games of the early 90s available on the revolutionary newish cd-rom format, or perhaps even cruder. It appears as if it could’ve been “shot” in Second Life with a shitty digital camera and then digitized (trans-en-re-enconvertificated) again for the internets.
You might recognize the voice of the dumb main character. It sounds like a few voices from one show in particular. The reason is because the show was made by the same folks that made Wonder Showzen, PFFR.
It’s tragically hip and mentally twisting.
Oink hydras, coincidence, and comparison.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007I’ve always thought the hydra was good torrent metaphor. It’s come up a lot lately.
No one is going to believe this, but I’m being completely honest here, have never committed plagiarism, and take pride in having an occasion original idea per decade. This was one I had early tonight at work, around 7pm:
When I got home, I about double-shit my pants when I saw this eerily similar image on that one site!:
I still can’t believe it. I mean, it’s not the most creative idea I’ve ever had, and I’ll admit to it being a little easy, but god damn. Here’s a detail of mine:
Some interesting things in common or different include mine having one less head, mine only having one pair of headphones all emosmashed on the ground, mine having a huge demon tri-spiked tail, and I can draw cloven hooves. Mine also has no little Dutch flying avenger, but instead has an inactive user.
This is an amazing coincidence, sort of. That other guy’s image (I think) came first, but I’d never seen it, so I’d rate this probably mildly weird.
Pattern Recognition: Series of Tubes.
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007I’m exhausting myself from lung gyration as I’m drowning myself in fucking balls-deep internet humor and it’s been quite a long time since I’d gotten to the thick of it. I’d link some up but fuck you.
It’s like this haven where the assholes of the world can practice their craft, and no one is really harmed unless they fit very specific guidelines. That’s entertainment. That shit can’t be sold, bought, or written.
If the old internet had hypertext, the new internet has hyperhumor, and other such words so unbelievabearably gay that they should not exist.
The power of THE WIKI is indeniable.
Bacon and how it’s (corn)fed to you.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007Dear real world,
You don’t understand. If you think there won’t be (or already isn’t) another site within a week, you don’t understand. All that has been removed from the situation is a single website that connects people. They don’t even know each other. The internet itself is the enemy here. It’s too big to be controlled, and is demanding you rethink the way you do many things. For example, I’ve become a bit of a skeptic, thanks in part to the internet. To further this example, let’s examine the situation skeptically.
DJ Rupture’s sensible take on it.
The current entertainment industry is angry. It’s mad that you damned kids outran it. It’s mad that it can’t control you anymore. It’s mad that the pocket padding (which has not even remotely slowed) doesn’t appear as threatened as it prefers. It’s mad that the enemy isn’t so easy to bully as the damned kids.
A Cleveland Police spokesman said: “This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up. Membership was by invitation only.”
Anyone that calls something torrent-related a scheme, and suggests that profit is involved, has no idea what they’re saying. Calling it a “pre-release” site is false propaganda as well. Even respectable news sources are regurgitating the same horseshit. Why lie about it if the law has been so blatantly violated?
“…was central to the illegal distribution of pre-release music online. This was not a case of friends sharing music for pleasure. This was a worldwide network that got hold of music they did not own the rights to and posted it online.”
What’s the difference in 2007? If you think that question is a joke, you’ve missed most of my point so far.
Almost every major news article I can find inaccurately describes not only the significance and frequency of early releases, but also the invitation structure, and often even the concepts behind how torrents work. They want everyone to think it was a profitable scheme; it wasn’t. They want everyone to think it was a malicious cult; it wasn’t. In other words, in brief, don’t believe what you’re hearing.
The law is the law…however, it still has yet to be broken. I’d explain this, but if you don’t believe me, you aren’t to be convinced anyway.
They used to have these things in the world called revolutions. A huge mob of people would get together with farm tools and take back their land. These damned kids don’t feel entitled; they just know the system is outdated bullshit. And now, all they’ve lost is a significant number of .torrent files. That’s all. They could literally turn around right this second and put the data on another torrent site, and when that site is down tomorrow, another will replace it, ad infinitum.
I like to call this the internet effect.
Please stop comparing this to Napster! Terrorism! Juxtaposition! Just want that in there for searches. And please, everyone, be a little more responsible and do some fucking reading before you lump another piece of shit on the media monolith. Keep sharing and thank you for listening. (even more links!)
It is improper to use “you” to address an audience.
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Everyone does poop.
Friday, October 12th, 2007Is it just a coincidence that both South Park and Lucy have shit jokes in them this week?
(probably)
