June 2010
“Most of the clamor, as you certainly know by now, revolves around the age-old...”
– Douglas Hofstadter - Person Paper on Purity in Language
Hofstader’s classic satire on sexism in language.
Knicks seek three fans to ring in free agency at... →
Although there is a report that LeBron James will not be making recruiting visits, the Knicks still want someone to visit Madison Square Garden on the eve of free agency. The Garden is looking for three hardcore Knicks fans to spend one night at The Garden leading up to the premiere of MSG Network’s “Knicks Night Live” on June 30 at midnight, the start of the NBA’s free...
Summer of LeBron overshadows draft - NBA - Yahoo!... →
In this twisted, bizarre and broken culture of Stern’s NBA, the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat overshadowed the draft with what passes as accomplishment now: Gutting good players off rosters, clearing cap space and praying World Wide Wes is lying to everyone else, not you. […] Now the arms race for basketball’s biggest soap star has transformed into the most fascinating free-for-all this...
No Power? No Problem: ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Relies... →
For fun, Mr. Kimmel picked up an Apple MacBook, opened the Photo Booth program, and began walking through his offices and interviewing his staffers on its Webcam. “I was like, maybe we can do this if we’re not able to get on the air,” he said.
Jay Dedman: are you reading this? Our future is finally here. And it looks a lot like Jimmy Frikkin Kimmel.
My Contributions to Roy Christopher's Summer... →
I contributed a couple of titles to Roy Christopher’s Summer Reading List for 2010. I’ve excerpted them below:
Kenyatta Cheese
I have but two books that I’m reading this summer.
The first one is a collection of essays called Deleuze and New Technology edited by David Savat and Mark Poster (Edinburgh University Press, 2009). While Gilles Deleuze didn’t live long enough to see the...
The Problem With Using a Singular Source for Meme... →
We spend a lot of time at KYM trying to triangulate the origin of images and catchphrases. I say ‘triangulate’ because we put an emphasis on finding multiple sources that can corroborate a single idea (and not several sources repeating the same story.)
One of the big dangers of relying on a single unearthed Wikipedia edit or a lone Geocities page is that you end up taking old information as fact...
TheKnicksBlog.com – How Quickly It Can All Change →
Let’s recall the Celtics’ summer of 2007. In a span of a little over one month, Doc Rivers, whose head was on the chopping block, was on the verge of tears at the draft lottery when the ping-pong balls didn’t land them the coveted top 2 pick in the Greg Oden-Kevin Durant sweepstakes. Next thing you know Jeff Green turns into Ray Allen, a bunch of role players with “potential” turns into...
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UN 'takeover' turns out to be thousands of Kias →
Conspiracy theory groups believed they had found proof of a United Nations takeover via Google Maps. When Google updated its Google Earth program earlier this year, thousands of white vehicles could be seen parked on the runways.
A Google search reveals thousands of hits on conspiracy or right wing websites, and there’s also a 10-minute YouTube video where a commentator dissects the Green Cove...
“Ultimately, the entire universe will become saturated with our intelligence,” he...”
– Ray Kurzweil from: Merely Human? That’s so yesterday. NYT (via idlaurenn)
This quote pissed me off more than anything else in that article. What hubris! I can imagine a European explorer saying the same of the New World centuries ago. “Ultimately, the entire planet will become saturated with...
WatchDavid Rose speaks at VC Bootcamp 6/9/2010
Great intro to VC’s by David Rose. Skip ahead to about 10:33
(via tk)
ScoutFriendly.com →
ScoutFriendly.com is a growing database of film friendly locations in the New York area.
“Given recent volatility in BP share price, I’m told that information related to...”
– The Media Equation - BP’s Managing of Information on Gulf Oil Spill - NYTimes.com
Please read David Carr’s piece on the control of information surrounding the BP disaster. We’re now 20 minutes into the future.
“Cheezburger figures out what’s starting to get popular and then harvests the...”
– I Can Has Cheezburger Blog Leads to a Web Empire - NYTimes.com
Me commenting on the Cheezburger Network. Yes, I see the cheesy irony.
“Stop listening to the people who’ve already got millions of dollars in...”
– Ignoring It Won’t Make It Go Away - Anil Dash
BallparkTour.com - The Ballpark Organists →
A list of major league sports organists including articles about their tenure.
How To Date A White Bitch (Advice For The... →
I know what you’re thinking: White bitches—so rare. So exotic! Where/how can you snag one yourself, for experimental love-making purposes? Luckily, I have more than a decade of experience interacting with these pasty unicorns, and am somewhat of an expert on the subject. Allow me, for a moment, to expound on the peculiar wants and desires of white bitches—and in turn enlighten you, fellow...
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“I think that the infosphere - the sphere of information - is going to impose...”
– Paul Virilio on the information society.
WAR CRIMES AND FRENCH FRIES | N.E.E.T. →
M.I.A.’s counter to Lynn Hirschberg’s maybe not so accurate NYT piece. Includes audio from the interview and a diss track.
The Health Graph - Anil Dash →
Over the past two and a half decades, the Weather Channel built itself into a $3.5 billion company on the strength of information that’s largely available for free from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. But starting today, if I had to pick the next area where somebody’s going to make an enormously successful and valuable business built on top of open government data,...
“Technology is social before it is technical.”
– Gilles Deleuze channeling Foucault.
