July 09, 2004
An Unholy Mess of a Girl
Posted by nerdling | July 9, 2004 05:05 PM
Because he is so much larger than life, it is easy to forget that David Bowie is neither as young nor as spry as he was prancing about the stage as Ziggy Stardust. Get well soon, and quit with the bacon.
Awww! How to Dress Emo 2.0—for those of you who aren't already sick of the Polaroid Scene set.
Check out the archives for KVRX Austin for some older live performances by the Magnetic Fields, Centro-matic, Broken Social Scene, Idlewild, Imperial Teen and others. {Via slatch.com}
The fourth sign of the apocalypse: Paris Hilton is starting her own record label called—what else?—Heiress. I can't decide if I should cry or laugh.
The trailer for Wong Kar Wai's 2046 is available here. Also available: the trailer for The Motorcycle Diaries. I'm curious about the film; the book, a diary kept by Che Guevara during his travels through South America, documents the development of Che's political ideas. If they do a good job with the film it could be truly great.
Researchers in Chapel Hill, NC have used the Quartz rendering engine of Mac OS X to create a transparent desktop, Facetop, which solves many of the current problems of telecommuting. Previous attempts to network offices and allow co-workers to modify the same documents while communicating via phone or video have been clumsy (and unpredictable) at best. Facetop's technology projects video directly onto the monitor through the transparent desktop so workers can see each other while they work, gesturing and making changes in real time.
General creepiness: schoolchildren in Osaka, Japan, will be tagged with RFID chips so that officials can monitor their movements. That's just a little too Orwellian for me.
In other creeping news, Monsanto is sneaking GMO crops past European objectors using everyone's favorite social lubricant: beer. Genetically modified corn is being used to brew beer in Sweden in the hopes that it will drown European opposition to genetically modified foods.
the emo how-to was slightly amusing, though bright eyes would have been a better choice than desaparacidos. but the polaroid set? fuck, I HATE los angeles.
how do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?
dan
Posted by: dan at July 10, 2004 11:56 AM
RE: RFID chips
Isn't this a bit too Battle Royale-like?
Posted by: Filmbrain at July 14, 2004 08:49 AM
Maybe that's where they picked up the idea from.
*creepy Twilight Zone music*
Posted by: Marleigh at July 14, 2004 03:27 PM
