February 2012
18 posts
#12fgr →
lookuplookup:
On the couch wearing the rattiest of my worn-out knee-highs, the last vestiges of a youthful stint as an awful, awful stepdancer.
[photo-reply with gratuitously large, x-year-old trousers, which i still keep, gradually gathering paint spatters, their numerous rips now more drafty than aesthetically pleasing.]
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nsomn:
Guys, I found the Ghana Post Office Stamp...
whenyrlivinginafascistdream:
“I actually dreamed this morning that Obama’s secret drone program was really a minimalist sound installation, a kind of soft Phill Niblock piece coming from concealed loudspeakers.”
— Kyle Gann
Was it not a clandestine network of subversive throat singers in central Asia?
“Ich sage dir: Steh auf und geh! Es ist dir kein Knochen gebrochen.”
– Ingeborg Bachmann, Das dreißigste Jahr (via faoiseamh)
Using the internet in front of a mirror,
excessively critical and stressful thoughts are gently quashed by the sight of my own funny little face.
January 2012
22 posts
'Impossible' German proposal for Greek budget veto →
Under the leaked German proposal, a budget commissioner would have veto powers over Greek budgetary measures if they were not in line with targets set by international lenders.
Greece would also legally commit itself to servicing its debt, before spending any money in any other way.
Greek officials reacted angrily to the proposal.
“It’s going to be impossible for the Greek...
Das unlesbare Buch →
A British publisher is controversially planning to publish excerpts of Hitler’s memoir “Mein Kampf” in Germany, along with a critical commentary.
But the state of Bavaria, which holds the copyright, is threatening legal action to prevent publication of “The Unreadable Book”.
“It’s not like the German perspective. The British perspective would be… if this is something you don’t like, you...
slaughterhouse90210:
“…She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.” —Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten, and european... →
nemesissy:
a clarification re: Neubauten and the convo with desertpalace:
Not all rhetorical deployments of the concept of Europe are suspicious or crypto-fascistic. […]
It’s always important to think about context here- as with the deployment of any particular rhetorical buzzwords that are so general as to be nearly meaningless.
[links above added by me]
In my case, I guess the...
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TEA - Ай-Петри
IPoAC has been successfully implemented, but for only nine packets of data, with a packet loss ratio of 55% (due to user error), and a response time ranging from 3000 seconds (~54 minutes) to over 6000 seconds (~1.77 hours). Thus, this technology suffers from poor latency.
Nevertheless, for large transfers, avian carriers are capable of high average throughput when carrying flash memory...
December 2011
42 posts
Look Good in Ruins (or: Twenty-five Tangents about... →
Being an artist in postwar West Germany meant being part of a “lost generation”. This was on account of a major aesthetic disruption — first, from having been removed from the modernist continuum by Hitler and his cultural commissars, only to be plunged back into it after an extended absence. The past buried twice over. The result was a sense of alienation, of feeling...
