Embrace your geekdom!

stevenf:

WARNING: A long, rambly exploration of the state of computing with no real conclusion follows.

Every geek I know shares, to some degree, the notion that the “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What nobody seems to have a solid opinion on is what would take its place.

Word!

I love me some Macalope!

of this kind of systematic BS will it take for progressives to realize they’ve been had?

The photos are both inflammatory and “not particularly sensational”.

Why should I question that?

For the last almost three years I’ve worked as a web developer at Louddog Corp, but as of Monday, April 27, 2009 I’ve joined the 11% of laid off or unemployed Californians.

With all the free time I suddenly have, I’ve updated my website (I’m still tweaking this tumblr template for pesky IE, so bear with me) and I actually got a great freelance gig right out of the gate that I may blog about more later, but if anyone knows of something appropriate for my “luke warm water” skills, please do ping me.

Cheers!

We Live In the Future

I’m late to the party about this, but goddamn if this isn’t some of the most astonishingly creative stuff I’ve ever seen and heard. This guy Kutiman is like the DJ Shadow of the interwebs. Utterly fantastic!

Merlin Mann’s got a great article about how much this must make the suits squirm.

I love the word “douche”, and it’s just used so goddamn appropriately here, how could I resist? More change we’re being deceived in. Awesome!

lonelysandwich:

“Parenthood: Slappin’ the Salami” (1989)

Joaquin Phoenix is one messed up little dude.

It’s okay, Joaquin.  That’s what little dudes do.  They chew gum in Dave’s house.

Parenthood and Letterman. Two magnificent pop cultural references for the price of one! If you think about the disparity between the arc of Reeves’ career and Phoenix’s, it’s kind of mind blowing isn’t it? Keanu was and still is the perfect Todd, so it was only logical he’d become the perfect Neo in the inscrutably feted, warmed over Philip K. Dick ridiculousness of the Matrix.

I’ll take depressive nutter over mouth breathing nincompoop any day.

“Everyone simply assumes that the tax cuts were inserted to attract Republican votes. But there’s really no evidence of that, is there? None whatsoever. We assume they were inserted for that reason, because we assume that no one on the Democratic side of things believes they have any place in a stimulus bill. Nobody, including Obama.”

Once again, if instead of assuming, you’ve been paying attention at all, then Obama’s lip service liberalism and centrist (meaning ruling class, status quo) cabinet appointments and policy making should come as no surprise.

“If all of this is an accident, then the people who argue that Obama is a genius find themselves looking like morons. And if this is part of some grand scheme to turn the country liberal, then the people who are arguing that Obama is playing some kind of three dimensional chess should let me in on the secret. Because otherwise, The Razor is in play, and Occam says Obama put his team in place to make sure the status stayed quo. And given the weight of the actual evidence — and the dearth of reasons to continue arguing that Obama’s at all progressive — isn’t it time to own up to reality?”

So, unless you can stomach mopping up gray matter when my head explodes, please don’t accuse me of just having a negative attitude.