More rifts today in the NYT as they cover the plight of Egypt’s rich.
“The protesters are against us,” [a rich person] added. “We hope President Mubarak stays because at least we have national security. I wish we could be like the United States with a democracy, but we cannot. We have to have a ruler with an iron hand.”
Previously the feudal lords of Northern Pakistan have it hard.
Whereas they were ‘fissures’ in Peshawar, it’s a ‘widening chasm’ in Egypt.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On on YouTube via Natalie
I’m watching an interesting documentary about remix culture that has interviews with Greg Gillis of Girl Talk (pictured), Cory Doctorow, Negativland and Lawrence Lessig. It’s on Hulu, which I think is progressive of them, but I’m sure you can get it other places as well.
Ri and I made a claymation video using an app on her telephone.
There are so many magic moments in Girl Talk’s new album All Day, released yesterday on Illegal Art, but IMO nothing tops Radiohead vs Wu Tang Ol Dirty Bastard at 3:11 on the track below.
Girl Talk – Jump on Stage
A full list of samples is on Wikipedia.
Update: On this site you can listen and see the sample credits as it plays.
An innocent couple falls victim to airline shenanigans. So where do they go when they can’t leave the gate area for… well, for who knows how long? “To The Cloud” to access the recorded TV shows on their home PC. Three hour delay? Bring it.
When buzzwordy people refer to the “cloud,” they’re referring to a countless number of interchangeable servers that exist nowhere specific for the express purpose of serving you content. YouTube’s servers, for example, are “the cloud.” The word itself comes from the amorphous shape you’d have to use to represent these servers in a diagram.
The characters in this ad, instead of availing themselves of an actual cloud-based service (such as Hulu, where this ad is playing), prefer to log into their home computer with remote desktop (which would be impossibly slow, and would not make use of any clouds) and transfer a recorded tv show—why would they have recorded tv shows in the first place? Like from television?
The agency that wrote this spot obviously doesn’t understand the cloud concept in at least two ways, and, by extension, it sounds like Microsoft doesn’t either.
I was partly spotted by Brooklyn Vegan at the Best Coast show this week.
That’s my colleague Leah wondering wtf was up with all the paparazzi.
Behold an actual byproduct of the new changes to the MTA effective today.
Via Bowery Boogie.
Update They’re going to change it.
One block south of my present location, via NYC the Blog.
